AirDNA is hiring a
Senior Platform Engineer

Summary

Join our Platform team and help drive our growth by designing, maintaining, and improving our platform and processes.

Requirements

• Strong familiarity with Amazon Web Services, multi-account experience preferred
• Expertise using Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to automate application deployment and infrastructure provisioning
• Able to diagnose and troubleshoot problems in a distributed microservice environment
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP networking
• Expertise with Linux (prefer Ubuntu, Alpine, and/or Amazon Linux)
• Understanding of DevOps practices
• Demonstrated experience in managing or leading platform teams, with the ability to grow the team and develop talent within

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain monitoring, logging, and telemetry solutions for proactive performance and reliability management (experience with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Evaluate and integrate new technologies to enhance platform capabilities, especially around containers, databases, and cloud-native architectures
• Ensure security, compliance, and cost optimization in all platform solutions, utilizing tools like IAM, GuardDuty, and AWS Security Hub
• Design, implement, and manage scalable infrastructure solutions using AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront, etc.)
• Manage, scale, and optimize multiple databases (PostgresQL + Druid) to ensure performance, availability, and redundancy
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to streamline release processes and integrate best practices for infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Work closely with stakeholders to identify infrastructure needs and lead initiatives to scale the platform in alignment with business goals
• Drive continuous improvement in the platform’s architecture and processes, optimizing for performance, reliability, and operational efficiency
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align platform development with product goals and strategies
• Mentor and guide junior team members, providing technical leadership and driving best practices across the platform team

Preferred Qualifications

• Gitlab pipelines
• ArgoCD
• Linkerd, Istio or other service mesh
• ELK stack or similar logging platforms
• Ansible or other configuration management tools
• Cloudformation or other IaC tools
• JSON/YAML
• OpenVPN
• Apache Airflow
• Databases (postgres and Druid preferred)
• Cloudflare
• Atlassian tools such as Jira, Confluence, StatusPage

Benefits

• Competitive cash compensation and benefits, the salary range for this position is $150,000 - $180,000 per year
• Colorado Salary Statement: The salary range displayed in specifically for those potential hired who will work or reside in the state of Colorado if selected for this role. Any offered salary is determined based on internal equity, internal salary ranges, market data/ranges, applicant’s skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications
• Medical, dental, and vision packages to meet your needs
• Unlimited vacation policy; take time when you need it
• Eligible for Company’s annual discretionary bonus program
• 401K with employer match up to 4%
• Continuing education stipend
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• New MacBooks for employees