Senior Platform Engineer (DevOps & Software)
Posted 1 day 2 hours ago by Breezy HR
Breezy HR is a remote first, profitable hiring platform built for small and mid sized businesses. Thousands of teams trust us to streamline recruiting from first touch to signed offer, and we're passionate about delivering a fast, delightful experience for every candidate and every hiring manager.
Why this role?We're hiring a Senior Platform Engineer with deep, senior level infrastructure experience who also enjoys writing and shipping customer facing code - about a 65% DevOps/Platform, 35% product code split.
We're modernizing our platform for faster releases, stronger reliability, and tighter security. Our small, senior team needs an engineer who can keep CI/CD humming, maintain and continuously improve our cloud infrastructure, own observability, and jump onto product work so the platform stays battle tested and our devs stay unblocked.
Key responsibilities ( 65% platform/35% product)- Own CI/CD pipelines end to end, ensuring fast, reliable deployments and simple rollbacks.
- Maintain & evolve our AWS infrastructure with Terraform or AWS CDK, continually improving security, cost efficiency, and compliance (least privilege IAM, secrets management).
- Run observability - logs, metrics, traces, dashboards - and lead incident response for production issues.
- Embed with product engineers to deliver customer features or performance fixes (Node.js/React).
- Cross train teammates through pairing and concise documentation so knowledge never bottlenecks.
- Participate in a shared on call rotation ( 1week in6) for production infrastructure.
- 5+ years total engineering experience; 3+ years building cloud infrastructure as code (Terraform, CDK, Pulumi, etc.) on AWS.
- Proven ownership of CI/CD for multi service SaaS products.
- Production grade coding skills in at least one language - ability to deliver a small API, CLI, or internal UI end to end.
- Hands on with containers & orchestration (ECS, EKS, Fargate, Docker Compose) and at least one observability stack (Grafana, Datadog, Honeycomb, NewRelic).
- Working knowledge of security best practices (TLS everywhere, least privilege IAM, secrets management) and basic compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO27001, GDPR).
- Strong communicator able to explain infrastructure trade offs to engineers, PMs, and architects.
- Implemented GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux) or blue/green & canary release patterns.
- Experience with MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, or high scale message queues.
- Mentored DevOps engineers or led a platform guild.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- PTO - 15 days in year1, rising to 21 days in year2.
- MacBookPro and all necessary accessories.