Platform Engineer

American Corporation for Public Well Being; Milwaukee (WI); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

American Corporation for Public Well Being (ACPWB) is seeking a Platform Engineer to own and enhance the employee data warehouse infrastructure, leveraging Terraform and AWS. You will collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable systems.

You will participate in sprint planning, help maintain the Milwaukee office and remote environments, and contribute to the roadmap with a focus on performance and observability.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience with production systems and reliability requirements.
• Clean, tested, well-documented code with good documentation.
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging under time pressure.
• Experience with version control (Git), code review practices, and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Participate in sprint planning, standups, and retrospectives as part of the Tech & Engineering cadence.
• Maintain network and systems infrastructure for the Milwaukee office and remote environments.
• Ensure reliability, performance, and security of internal systems on AWS.
• Design, build, and maintain components of the employee data warehouse using Terraform and AWS.
• Contribute to the technical roadmap by identifying investments in internal systems performance and security.

Skills

Production systems

Code quality

Git & CI/CD

Troubleshooting

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Airflow

Python

Job description

Technology & Engineering Junior Full-Time, Senior Individual Contributor

About The Role

The Platform Engineer is responsible for the technical infrastructure that makes ACPWB's analytical work possible. The Technology & Engineering team of 19 builds and maintains the employee data warehouse that powers our advisory practice, and this role is central to ensuring that infrastructure is reliable, secure, and scalable. Our analytical staff depends on this work. So do our clients, indirectly. You will know both are counting on you.

The Platform Engineer will join ACPWB's Technology & Engineering team to drive internal systems performance and security improvements to the employee data warehouse. Working in Terraform and AWS, you will partner with data engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders to build solutions that have measurable impact on firm performance. We deploy frequently, review code carefully, and invest in the quality of our technical foundation.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in sprint planning, standups, and retrospectives as part of the Technology & Engineering engineering cadence
• Maintain network and systems infrastructure for ACPWB's Milwaukee office and remote work environments
• Ensure reliability, performance, and security of internal systems performance and security infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Design, build, and maintain components of the employee data warehouse using Terraform and AWS
• Contribute to ACPWB's technical roadmap by identifying investment opportunities in internal systems performance and security

Qualifications

Required

• 1+ years of experience managing or contributing to production systems with reliability requirements
• Demonstrated ability to write clean, tested, maintainable code with attention to documentation
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills with the ability to diagnose issues under time pressure
• Experience with version control (Git), code review practices, and CI/CD pipelines

Preferred

• Experience with Python for data processing including pandas, NumPy, or PySpark
• Prior experience in a professional services or advisory firm technology environment
• Experience with data orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow, Prefect, or equivalent
• Demonstrated interest in data quality, data contracts, or observability as engineering practices

WHY ACPWB

Our culture is one of intellectual honesty, high standards, and what we describe internally as 'aggressive collaboration' — a phrase that means we challenge each other's thinking constructively and support each other's success unconditionally. We have won awards for this. The awards are real. The culture is also real.

ACPWB was founded in Milwaukee in 2006 with a simple mandate: help working Americans understand and advocate for the compensation they deserve. Eighteen years later, that mandate has grown into a full-service research and advisory practice serving clients from early-stage employers to Fortune 50 enterprises — and we are still based in Milwaukee, because Milwaukee is genuinely underrated.

INTERVIEW PROCESS

Candidates will complete a two-stage process: a 45-minute exploratory call followed by a comprehensive final interview including a skills demonstration. We do not require unpaid work samples. We do require genuine expertise. These are different things.

What Success Looks Like In Year One

• Document the components of the employee data warehouse you own at a level sufficient for another engineer to maintain them
• Lead at least one sprint or project phase end-to-end from planning through deployment
• Ship at least two meaningful features or improvements to the employee data warehouse with full documentation
• Develop a thorough working knowledge of the employee data warehouse architecture, data flows, and dependencies