Platform Engineer

Solace Corporation; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid-first

Growth mindset

Brilliant colleagues

Job summary

Solace Corporation is seeking a Platform Engineer to join the Cloud Infrastructure team. You will build, deploy, and operate the Solace Cloud platform, focusing on self-managed deployments in customer accounts, sovereign clouds, and government environments.

You will own operational health, automate provisioning with IaC, Helm, and CI/CD pipelines, and help meet FedRAMP and security requirements. You will work across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments, collaborate with security teams, and mentor

Qualifications

• This role requires US citizenship and eligibility for Security clearance.
• BS degree in Software, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in platform, infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or production engineering with ownership of production systems.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise: provisioning, networking, storage, RBAC, autoscaling, and troubleshooting in various distributions.
• Proficiency with Terraform for IaC and Helm for packaging and deploying apps.
• Strong Linux fundamentals and cloud networking knowledge (VPC/VNet, routing, DNS, TLS).
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, including government or sovereign variants.
• Experience with Vault or similar secrets-management tools, and CI/CD pipelines with automated tests.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, operate, and upgrade self-managed Solace Cloud environments in customer-controlled accounts and government clouds.
• Design and maintain infrastructure-as-code, Helm charts, and automation to provision Kubernetes clusters.
• Own operational health: monitoring, capacity, patching, cluster lifecycle, and upgrades.
• Participate in production support, incident response, and durable runbooks.
• Implement security baselines for regulated environments and manage credentials with Vault.
• Contribute to FedRAMP compliance efforts and audit support.
• Collaborate with customer security teams and translate constraints into configurations.
• Build and extend CI/CD pipelines and automated tests for infrastructure and platform code.
• Contribute to Java/Spring Boot microservices when boundaries meet infrastructure.

Skills

Kubernetes expertise

Terraform

Helm

CI/CD pipelines

HashiCorp Vault

Go / Python / Java

Linux fundamentals

Cloud networking

FedRAMP/government cloud knowledge

Education

BS degree in Software, Computer or Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

HashiCorp Vault

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Enterprise AI is moving from pilots to production, and the constraint is no longer the model -it's the data. Agents are only as good as what they can sense, trust, and act on in the moment, and real-time, event-driven data is becoming the foundation every serious AI system runs on.

Solace is the leading real-time data platform for the enterprise AI era. Established enterprises worldwide — including RBC Capital Markets, Bosch, Heineken, PSA Singapore, United Airlines, Schwarz Group, and hundreds more — have built their business around Solace to enable intelligent, real-time experiences, modernize their application and integration landscape, and create seamless digital journeys for their customers, partners, and employees.

So, the next time you drive a car, order furniture online, fly in a plane, check your bank balance on your phone, your positive experience could be a direct result of our technology - and your hard work!

About the Role

This position is for a Platform Engineer on the Cloud Infrastructure team within Solace's Engineering Platform group. You will help build, deploy, and operate the platform that runs Solace Cloud, with a particular focus on self-managed deployments: instances of Solace Cloud that run inside a customer's own cloud account, in a sovereign or regional cloud, or in a US Government environment such as a FedRAMP-authorized region.

The role blends two things. Day to day, you will work as a platform engineer alongside the rest of the Cloud Infrastructure team: Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, Helm, CI/CD, secrets management, identity and access, and the automation that lets us provision and upgrade clusters reliably across AWS, Azure, and GCP. You will also carry a production engineering responsibility for the environments we deploy, which means owning their operational health, participating in incident response, and continuously improving runbooks, observability, and upgrade paths.

As Solace grows its footprint in regulated and government markets, this role is expected to move further toward a deploy-forward engineering profile: standing up and managing self-managed Solace Cloud deployments in government clouds, working through FedRAMP and related compliance requirements, and acting as the technical bridge between Solace engineering and the customer environments our platform runs in.

What You'll Do

• Deploy, operate, and upgrade self-managed Solace Cloud environments in customer-controlled accounts, sovereign clouds, and US Government clouds (for example AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, and GCP Assured Workloads), including air-gapped and egress-restricted deployments.
• Design, build, and maintain the infrastructure-as-code, Helm charts, and automation that provision Kubernetes clusters (EKS, AKS, GKE, and alternative Kubernetes distributions) and the platform services that run on them.
• Own the operational health of the environments you deploy: monitoring and alerting, capacity, patching, cluster lifecycle and Kubernetes version upgrades, database operations, and backup and recovery.
• Participate in production support and incident response, drive root-cause analysis, and turn findings into durable fixes, runbooks, and automation.
• Implement and maintain security baselines for regulated environments: hardened images, FIPS-validated cryptography, restricted RBAC, network segmentation, private connectivity (VPN, private link, hub-and-spoke routing), and secrets management with HashiCorp Vault.
• Contribute to FedRAMP and related compliance efforts by implementing technical controls, producing evidence, supporting audits, and keeping documentation current.
• Work directly with customer platform and security teams during deployments and upgrades, translating their constraints into supportable configurations and feeding what you learn back into the product.
• Build and extend CI/CD pipelines and automated test coverage for infrastructure and platform code.
• Contribute to platform microservices in Java / Spring Boot where infrastructure and application boundaries meet, following agile software development practices.
• Communicate with the team through design reviews, demos, and documentation, and mentor others on self-managed and government deployment patterns.

What You'll Bring to the Role

• Because this role supports US Government and FedRAMP-related work, candidates must be US citizens and eligible for Security clearance is required.
• BS degree in Software, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a similar field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or production engineering roles, with hands-on ownership of production systems.
• Deep, practical Kubernetes expertise: cluster provisioning and lifecycle, networking (CNI, ingress, service mesh basics), storage (CSI), RBAC, autoscaling, and troubleshooting workloads in managed and self-hosted distributions.
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code using Terraform, and with packaging and deploying applications with Helm.
• Strong Linux fundamentals and cloud networking knowledge (VPC/VNet design, routing, load balancers, VPN and private connectivity, DNS, TLS/PKI).
• Experience in at least two of AWS, Azure, and GCP, including their government or sovereign variants, or a demonstrated ability to ramp quickly on a new provider.
• Working knowledge of FedRAMP (Moderate or High), NIST SP 800-53, FIPS 140-2/140-3, and hardening standards such as CIS Benchmarks or DISA STIGs, and experience implementing or evidencing controls in a cloud environment.
• Experience managing secrets, credentials, and certificates with HashiCorp Vault or similar tools.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and writing automated tests for infrastructure and services (unit, integration, functional, performance).
• Comfortable scripting and coding in at least one general-purpose language (Go, Python, or Java); able to read and contribute to Java / Spring Boot services.
• Experience operating relational and search databases in production (for example MySQL and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch).
• Comfortable working directly with customers and government stakeholders, explaining technical decisions clearly and concisely.
• A self-start who thrives with ambiguity, documents as they go, and collaborates well within cross-functional teams.
• US citizenship is required for this position due to US Government and FedRAMP customer requirements.

Nice to have Skills

• Prior experience deploying or operating SaaS platforms inside customer-owned accounts, sovereign clouds, or air-gapped environments, including private container registry mirroring and offline image distribution.
• Hands-on experience with AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, GCP Assured Workloads, or DoD Impact Level environments.
• Experience supporting a FedRAMP authorization (3PAO assessment, SSP authoring, POA&M management, continuous monitoring).
• Experience with OpenStack-based or other non-hyperscaler Kubernetes platforms.
• Experience with application performance monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana, including operating them under data-residency constraints.
• Experience with event-driven architecture and event brokers such as Solace, Kafka, or SNS.
• Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt).
• Experience with microservices design patterns and REST API development.
• Experience with JavaScript client frameworks (React, Angular, Aurelia).
• Relevant certifications such as CKA, CKAD, CKS, or cloud provider professional-level certifications.

Why You'll Love Working at Solace

• Work with brilliance - Our team is packed with some of the sharpest minds in the industry.
• Balance matters - We believe work should fit into your life, not the other way around.
• Hybrid-first - Flexibility is built into how we work, so everyone feels included and empowered.
• Values-driven - We live and breathe our core values: craftsmanship, trust, courage, freedom, momentum, humility, and human experience.
• Growth mindset - Our training programs are designed to help you level up, fast.
• Customer Obsessed - We're proud of our world-class customer lineup (we're not shy about it).
• Keep it fun - We're social, we keep things simple, and we know how to have a good time.
• Creative culture - We've got a great sense of humour and we make cool videos on topics like MITT and this (check them out!).

At Solace, we are committed to a fair, inclusive, and transparent recruitment process. To help identify candidates whose qualifications best align with the role, we use artificial intelligence (AI) tools during the initial stage of resume screening. These tools compare submitted resumes to the job description, focusing on education, experience, and skills.

Importantly, all decisions beyond this initial screening—including interviews and final hiring—are made by our human recruitment team. AI is never used to make final hiring decisions.

At Solace, we believe that diversity and inclusion drive innovation and growth, both in business and in life. We strive to create an enriching and safe workplace where you can be who you are. If you want to do the best work of your career and feel supported every step of the way, we encourage you to join us!