Platform Infrastructure Engineer: Event-Driven CI/CD

Jobtailor; California (MO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks an experienced Platform Infrastructure Engineer to design and build scalable backend systems and data pipelines. You will help accelerate engineering workflows with robust, event-driven architectures, CI/CD, and governance.

You will implement and operate AWS-based services and tools like Prefect, Airflow, and Dagster, while collaborating across teams to improve reliability, security, and cost optimization.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building platform infrastructure, backend services, or data systems in production.
• Experience operating pipelines, data access layers, distributed services, or ETL/ELT systems at scale.
• Strong proficiency in Python.
• Experience designing REST APIs for internal services and developers.
• Strong background in distributed systems and cloud platforms.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as S3, RDS, EKS, EventBridge, and IAM.
• Comfort working in a Terraform-managed environment.
• Familiarity with Prefect, Airflow, or Dagster.
• Familiarity with dbt.
• Understanding of RBAC, PII handling, audit logging, and data lineage.
• Track record of leading complex engineering initiatives and delivering measurable impact.
• Strong technical communication skills.
• Fluency with modern developer tooling and willingness to adopt new tools quickly.

Responsibilities

• Design and build agent infrastructure to safely and reliably accelerate engineering and operations workflows
• Design and implement event-driven data flows using event brokers, CDC connectors, schema registries, event routing, and dead letter queues
• Build data lineage, governance, RBAC, auditing, PII handling, retention policy enforcement, and enterprise compliance infrastructure
• Set strategy and architecture for build systems, testing frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines
• Drive the transition toward robust, automated continuous deployment
• Instrument services with OpenTelemetry and define and monitor SLOs
• Build alerting to detect issues before incidents; participate in on-call for systems built
• Improve infrastructure cost visibility and optimization through query cost estimation, workload right-sizing, and storage-tier routing
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to improve codebases, infrastructure, and processes

Skills

Python

REST API Design

Distributed Systems

ETL/ELT Systems

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

RBAC

Audit Logging

Data Lineage

Cost Optimization

CI/CD

Event-Driven

Tools

Prefect

Airflow

Dagster

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

dbt

EventBridge

Job description

Jobtailor seeks an experienced Platform Infrastructure Engineer to design and build scalable backend systems and data pipelines. You will help accelerate engineering workflows with robust, event-driven architectures, CI/CD, and governance.

You will implement and operate AWS-based services and tools like Prefect, Airflow, and Dagster, while collaborating across teams to improve reliability, security, and cost optimization.