Platform Engineer – NYC, Infra & AI Automation (Equity)

Advocate; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

WFH Stipend

Health & wellness benefits

Learning & development budget

Mentorship from industry leaders

Job summary

Advocate Technologies in NYC is hiring a Platform Engineer to own the foundation that the product and people build on. You will manage cloud infrastructure, security, and compliance as code, and you will build integrations and internal tooling to keep the platform running smoothly.

You will collaborate with the platform lead, scale infrastructure with automation, and develop AI agents to accelerate delivery while maintaining strong guardrails and auditability.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years of experience in platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles supporting production systems.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform or equivalent).
• GitOps mindset: if it isn’t in the repo, it doesn’t exist.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and policy checks.
• Strong grasp of a major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Advanced use of AI tools and building agent workflows and integrations.
• Security-first mindset with vulnerability management and compliance awareness (SOC 2 / ISO 27001).
• Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or Go for automation.
• Ability to work with high autonomy in a small team.

Responsibilities

• Own cloud infrastructure end-to-end, defined as code and shipped through CI/CD pipelines.
• Codify security and compliance controls, including access management and logging, into automated enforceable measures.
• Run vulnerability management across code, containers, cloud resources, and devices with automation.
• Build and maintain in-platform and external integrations supporting data connections and system interoperability.
• Design and deploy AI agents and automation to handle repetitive tasks with guardrails and human review.
• Own IT asset lifecycle and tooling, including device provisioning, identity and SaaS access provisioning.
• Develop internal tooling to shorten the path from idea to production for the engineering team.

Skills

Platform/DevOps experience

Infrastructure as code

GitOps

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud provider experience

AI tooling experience

Security & compliance

Python/TypeScript/Go

Autonomy in small team

Tools

Terraform

Git

CI/CD tooling

OPA

Job description

Advocate Technologies in NYC is hiring a Platform Engineer to own the foundation that the product and people build on. You will manage cloud infrastructure, security, and compliance as code, and you will build integrations and internal tooling to keep the platform running smoothly.

You will collaborate with the platform lead, scale infrastructure with automation, and develop AI agents to accelerate delivery while maintaining strong guardrails and auditability.