Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dice is seeking a highly hands-on Staff Platform Engineer / Platform Architect to design and build a new cloud platform from the ground up. The role will own AWS infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, deployment architecture, automation, and production operations while partnering closely with application engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Design and build AWS infrastructure supporting a new cloud-based platform
- Establish and evolve Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform and related technologies
- Build and maintain CI/CD and automated deployment pipelines
- Partner closely with application engineers on infrastructure, deployment, and operational decisions
- Design scalable, reliable, and production-ready platform architecture
- Help establish platform engineering standards and operational practices in a greenfield environment
- Automate infrastructure and engineering workflows wherever possible
- Leverage AI tools to improve engineering productivity and problem-solving
- Own solutions through implementation, deployment, and production operations
- Provide Staff-level technical leadership while remaining highly hands-on
Skills
- * Staff/Principal-level **Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, or Platform Architecture** experience
- * Deep hands-on **AWS** experience
- * Strong **Infrastructure as Code (IaC)** experience
- * Hands-on experience with **Terraform**
- * Strong experience with **TypeScript**
- * Experience building and maintaining **CI/CD pipelines**, ideally with **GitHub Actions** or similar tooling
- * Proven experience **building cloud/platform infrastructure from the ground up**
- * Experience owning infrastructure across the full lifecycle: **architecture build deployment production operations**
- * Strong understanding of cloud architecture, deployment, scalability, reliability, and operational practices
- * Experience working directly with **software/product engineering teams** rather than solely within a centralized infrastructure organization
- * Experience in a **greenfield, startup, or small-team environment** with minimal established processes
- * Ability to operate across multiple areas of platform engineering rather than specializing in only one infrastructure function
- * Strong system design and technical architecture skills
- * Hands-on experience using **AI development tools** such as Claude, Gemini, Copilot, or similar tools as part of engineering workflows
- * Excellent communication skills and ability to explain architecture decisions and technical trade-offs
- * Ability to work primarily **West Coast hours**
- * **Pulumi** experience
- * Experience with **agentic AI** or AI-assisted platform/infrastructure engineering
- * Experience building developer tooling and improving developer experience
- * Experience working on high-volume **e-commerce, booking, transaction, or SaaS platforms**
Benefits
- Medical coverage, for those that meet eligibility
- Dental coverage, for those that meet eligibility
- Vision coverage, for those that meet eligibility
- Federal and state leave programs as required by applicable agency regulations, for those that meet eligibility
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