Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Citian is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to make its production systems reliable and deployments safe and routine. The role owns CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, databases, incident response, and platform tooling for software used by state and local governments.
Responsibilities
- Design, build and run CI/CD pipelines that reliably build, test, deploy and roll back our applications, with versioned releases and deployment records
- Stand up on-call, runbooks and a lightweight incident process, and take part in the on-call rotation
- Set up monitoring, error tracking and alerting for applications and scheduled data pipelines, so we find problems, including missed runs, before customers do
- Own infrastructure as code, environments and cloud cost, including bringing hand-built infrastructure into code
- Assess our tooling (CI/CD platform, container orchestration, infrastructure as code, branching and release strategy) and lead changes where they pay off
- Administer PostgreSQL (RDS), Snowflake and S3, including backups, tested restores, access, performance and cost
- Build internal tooling, reusable skills and agents that help engineers build, test, deploy and operate safely
- Set service-level objectives with product and customer success, and report against them
- Help build and operate AWS GovCloud environments for government customers with CJIS requirements
- Set platform standards, build security controls into them with engineering leadership and our SOC 2 program, and mentor engineers on operating what they build
Skills
- You're a senior engineer who makes production reliable and makes shipping safe and routine
- You take an AI-first approach: you multiply the rest of engineering by building tooling, automation, reusable skills and agents, rather than becoming a queue
- You're a self-starter who takes ownership and works well across teams
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field
- 7+ years running production systems, 4+ of them on AWS (IAM, networking, RDS, S3, CloudWatch)
- Infrastructure as code (Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation or similar)
- Designing and running CI/CD pipelines with reliable deploys and rollback (GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions or similar)
- Containers and orchestration (Docker; Kubernetes/EKS or ECS)
- Database administration in production (performance tuning, backup and restore, migrations)
- Observability: metrics, logs, traces and alerting
- Experience leading incident response and running postmortems
- Operating in a compliance environment (SOC 2, GovRAMP/FedRAMP, CJIS, HIPAA or similar): change control, access reviews, audit evidence
- Strong Python or TypeScript for building tools, and hands-on agentic coding (Claude Code or similar): breaking work into agent-sized tasks, writing specs and tests agents can work against, and reviewing agent output critically
- Clear written communication; you document what you build
- Snowflake administration (roles, warehouses, cost)
- AWS GovCloud, GovRAMP/FedRAMP or CJIS experience
- AWS security services (GuardDuty, Security Hub, Config, CloudTrail)
- Building agent tooling (MCP servers, Claude Code skills or similar)
- Tools we use today (Datadog, Vercel, Auth0, Liquibase)
- Data pipeline orchestration (Airflow/MWAA)
- Leading tooling migrations (for example CI/CD platform, ECS to EKS, or adopting Terraform)
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Generous PTO
- 401(k) company match
- Monthly commuter transportation benefit
- On-site gym
- Free snacks in the office
- High-growth potential and opportunities for advancement within a fast-growing, venture-backed SaaS startup
- Work remotely within the US or hybrid in the Washington, D.C. office
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