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Platform Engineersteampunk • McLean, Maryland, USA
Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer

steampunk • McLean, Maryland, USA
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Overview

We are seeking Full-Stack Platform Engineer with a Tinkerer mindsetwho can build high-quality software across the stack while also owning the infrastructure pipelines and tooling that accelerate our engineering teams. This role blends hands-on development cloud architecture ETL pipeline engineering and platform automation . The ideal candidate is someone who loves solving problems across languages systems and environmentsand has strong experience in AWS Terraform CI / CD (CloudBees / Jenkins) and more.

Contributions

This engineer will design build and maintain developer tooling internal services automated workflows ETL / ELT pipelines and more. They will work across multiple languages cloud-native components front-end admin tools and infrastructure-as-code.

This is a hybrid role that blends :

  • Software Engineering (API development tooling dashboards automation scripts)
  • Data Engineering / ETL (AWS-native ingestion pipelines transformations orchestration)
  • Infrastructure & DevOps (Terraform CI / CD environment orchestration)
  • Developer Experience (improving speed reliability and ease of internal development)

We need someone who is a curious builder a tinkerer and someone capable of jumping into any system (front-end back-end infrastructure or data) and making it better.

Additional contributions :

  • Build and maintain internal full-stack tools admin interfaces services and automation scripts
  • Develop reusable frameworks libraries and SDKs that support internal teams
  • Create efficient back-end APIs microservices and event-driven components
  • Build operate and optimize AWS-native ETL pipeline
  • Work with AWS Glue Lambda Step Functions S3 Kinesis EventBridge DynamoDB RDS Athena
  • Implement data quality checks schema validation monitoring and alerting
  • Tune pipeline performance and cost efficiency
  • Author and maintain Terraform modules for AWS-based systems
  • Work with CloudBees / Jenkins to create maintain and optimize CI / CD pipelines
  • Implement environment automation deployment workflows and development environments
  • Manage logging monitoring and distributed system health
  • Build tools that improve local dev testing release automation and operational visibility
  • Reduce friction across engineering teams by improving processes and internal systems
  • Document systems train others on tooling and promote engineering best practices
  • Prototype new internal tools and evaluate new technologies
  • Thrive in ambiguous environments and figure things out independently
  • Enjoy tinkering solving problems end-to-end and connecting systems together
  • Stay hands-on with a wide variety of technologies
  • Qualifications

    Required :

  • 6 years of experience in software engineering data engineering platform engineering or similar hybrid roles
  • B.S. in technical field
  • U.S Citizenship
  • Strong proficiency in at least two programming languages (Python Go Java etc.)
  • Experience developing REST APIs backend services and automation tools
  • Comfortable with moderate front-end development (React Vue Angular or similar)
  • Experience building maintaining and monitoring ETL / ELT pipelines in AWS
  • Hands-on expertise with :
  • AWS Glue ETL Lambda Step Functions

  • S3(object lifecycle notifications best practices)
  • EventBridge Kinesis SNS / SQS
  • RDS / PostgreSQL DynamoDB RedShift
  • Apache Airflow Spark etc.
  • Understanding of AWS networking IAM and security best practices
  • Ability to reason about distributed systems scalability and fault tolerance
  • Experience with Docker and container workflow
  • Strong experience with :
  • CloudBees / Jenkins

  • Terraform
  • Artifacts versioning environment promotion
  • Experience automating deployments testing pipelines and environment provisioning
  • Natural tinkerer who enjoys exploring new tools and building prototypes
  • Comfortable working independently and owning projects start-to-finish
  • High curiosity strong debugging skills and willingness to dive into unfamiliar systems
  • Collaborative and communicative when working with developers data engineers and leadership
  • Preferred (Nice to have) :

  • Experience with serverless architectures
  • Kubernetes / EKS familiarity
  • Experience with observability platforms (Grafana CloudWatch etc)
  • Experience mentoring junior developers or influencing engineering practices
  • About steampunk

    Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary including but not limited to geographic location contractual requirements education knowledge skills competencies and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $90000 to $165000. The estimate displayed represents a typical annual salary range for this position. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunks total compensation package for employees. Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here.

    Identity Statement

    As part of the application process you are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

    Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland Federal Civilian Health and DoD sectors. Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. As an employee owned company we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story visit .

    Key Skills

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    Experience : years

    Vacancy : 1

    Monthly Salary Salary : 90000 - 165000

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