Senior Platform Engineer
Remote (United States)
Security Journey is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to help scale and operate the platform behind our secure coding training products used by engineering organizations worldwide.
This is a hands-on role for an engineer who enjoys owning production systems, improving developer experience, and bringing order to fast-moving environments. You’ll help run the daily platform operation while driving long-term improvements in reliability, standardization, automation, and cost efficiency. We are a remote-first company with an office in Apex, NC for optional in-person collaboration. What You’ll Do
- Own day-to-day platform operations across AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes environments.
- Improve reliability, scalability, and performance of systems supporting our learning platform.
- Operate and evolve multiple EKS clusters across production and non-production environments.
- Build internal self-service tooling and engineering guardrails that help developers ship safely and independently.
- Improve CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions and GitOps practices with ArgoCD.
- Drive observability improvements using DataDog, including dashboards, alerting, and incident response readiness.
- Partner with software engineers, QA, product, and security teams to remove friction and increase delivery velocity.
- Lead infrastructure changes end-to-end using Terraform and modern IaC practices.
- Reduce operational toil through automation, standardization, and thoughtful platform design.
- Participate in an on-call rotation focused on ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement.
- Mentor teammates through collaboration, code review, and operational best practices.
We run a modern cloud-native stack with room to improve and meaningful ownership opportunities.
Infrastructure & Platform
- AWS
- Kubernetes / EKS
- Terraform
- ArgoCD
- GitHub Actions
- DataDog
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Kafka
- Go
- Python
- Ruby
- React
Required
- 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or related infrastructure roles.
- Strong hands-on experience operating production workloads in AWS.
- Strong Kubernetes experience (EKS preferred).
- Experience managing infrastructure with Terraform or equivalent IaC tooling.
- Experience building or owning CI/CD systems.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across networking, containers, distributed systems, and production incidents.
- Ability to balance immediate operational needs with long-term engineering improvements.
- Strong written communication and comfort working in a remote-first environment.
- U.S. citizenship and U.S.-based residency.
- Experience with GitOps workflows (ArgoCD preferred).
- Experience with Datadog or modern observability platforms.
- Experience supporting SOC 2 or regulated environments.
- Experience with Kafka, PostgreSQL, or Redis in production.
- Programming experience in Go or Python.
- Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service tooling.
- Become a trusted owner of day-to-day platform operations.
- Reduce interruptions through automation and better platform workflows.
- Improve deployment consistency and developer self-service.
- Strengthen reliability, alerting, and incident readiness.
- Help modernize legacy areas while keeping delivery fast and pragmatic.
Security Journey helps organizations build secure software through practical, developer-focused application security training. Our platform includes foundational through advanced secure coding content across 11 languages and 7+ technology areas, with hands-on exercises, videos, and interactive sandbox environments that help teams build lasting security habits.
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