Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Beacon Hill is seeking a highly hands-on Staff Platform Engineer / Platform Architect to help design and build a new cloud platform from the ground up. The role owns AWS infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, deployment architecture, automation, and production operations while partnering closely with application engineers in a greenfield environment.
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
- 100% Remote
- Medical coverage for those who meet eligibility
- Dental coverage for those who meet eligibility
- Vision coverage for those who meet eligibility
- Federal and state leave programs as required by applicable agency regulations for those who meet eligibility
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