Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Raptor Maps, a fast-growing climate tech startup, as a Platform Engineer. You will be a hands-on leader, developing and executing our cloud infrastructure strategy, scaling and hardening our cloud infrastructure. You will create and maintain automation systems, ensure high availability, collaborate with team members, and work with technical leadership. This role requires experience with infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, security frameworks, and cloud-native patterns. Raptor Maps offers a remote-first work environment with various benefits.

Requirements

• Be intellectually curious - Love learning new things fast and staying up on technology. Quickly become interested and experiment. Ask silly questions by nature
• Be intelligent - Able to learn anything if you put your mind to it. Demonstrate excellence in diverse fields or interests and can wear many hats
• Be driven - Be highly self-motivated and enjoy making an impact. Be focused, resourceful, and enjoy working alongside a driven team
• Have 2+ years infrastructure automation experience ideally working with AWS
• Have experience implementing CI/CD pipelines to shorten the feedback loop
• Have experience with security frameworks like SOC2
• Have expertise working with Docker, and orchestration tools like ECS/Kubernetes
• Have experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like AWS CDK or Terraform
• Have experience supporting and managing the needs of multiple development teams
• Have experience re-platforming applications using cloud native patterns
• Have experience with data engineering concepts including large scale data storage, pipelines, and automation
• Be primarily located in the contiguous US
• Be authorized to work in the US

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain a reliable and valuable system of automation for code and data across all environments
• Maintain high availability of production and non-production work environments by implementing production metrics, monitoring, and incident response process
• Ensure developers can easily create and manage infrastructure for their services
• Collaborate with team members to support new services and technologies
• Work with technical leadership to roll out new tools and processes to development squads
• Enable and execute the re-platforming of applications to more robust cloud native patterns, the majority of applications written in Python and Typescript
• Participate in an on-call rotation for mission-critical web systems

Preferred Qualifications

Have familiarity with data science

Benefits

• Paid travel for in-person team trips
• Healthcare with dental and vision options
• Unlimited vacation policy
• 401(k)
• Desk budget
• Monthly remote social events and plenty of DoorDash credit