Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer

The ideal candidate will play a key role in both architectural strategy and hands-on implementation, helping to scale the platform engineering function as the company grows. You’ll actively contribute to the codebase, review pull requests, and make pivotal technical decisions while hiring, mentoring, and developing a world-class platform engineering team.

The company is located in Atlanta, potential hybrid in a few months.

What You Will Be Doing :

• Strategic Leadership : Develop and execute the platform engineering strategy, roadmap, and vision across AWS and Azure multi-cloud environments.
• Team Building & Hands-On Contribution : Begin as a direct technical contributor while hiring, mentoring, and scaling a high-performing platform engineering team as the organization grows.
• Cloud Infrastructure Architecture : Design and lead implementation of scalable, secure, and cost-efficient infrastructure that supports AI workloads and multi-tenant SaaS applications.
• Developer Enablement : Build and maintain internal developer platforms, CI / CD pipelines, and self-service systems that increase delivery speed and reliability.
• Security & Compliance : Own SOC 2 Type II controls, security frameworks, and compliance automation, ensuring platform resilience and audit readiness.
• FinOps & Cost Optimization : Establish and lead cloud cost optimization initiatives and FinOps best practices to maximize infrastructure ROI.
• Reliability & Observability : Implement SRE practices, monitoring, and alerting frameworks to maintain uptime, performance, and operational transparency.
• AI / ML Infrastructure : Architect and manage infrastructure for LLM deployment, vector databases, and AI agent orchestration at scale.
• Cross-Functional Alignment : Partner with Engineering, Security, and Product teams to ensure platform capabilities align with business goals and product strategy.

Innovation & Technology Evolution : Continuously evaluate and introduce modern tools, frameworks, and practices to evolve the platform’s performance and developer experience.

Required Skills & Experience :

Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, or New Relic for metrics, tracing, and reliability engineering.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis now and in the future.

This position doesn’t provide sponsorship.