Remote Senior Platform Engineer | Civic Tech & FedRAMP

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Focus is a fully remote digital services firm delivering civic tech solutions and platform enablement for U.S. government programs.

We seek a Staff Platform Engineer to design, evolve, and govern internal enterprise platforms that accelerate delivery, improve deployment safety, and ensure operational reliability across multi-vendor systems used by federal and state agencies. You will drive enterprise observability, automated CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and compliance automation,

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience developing full-stack applications and tooling with TypeScript and Python.
• Experience writing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and using infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.
• Experience designing complex systems interacting with multiple external services, databases, and third-party APIs.
• Proven ability to work in cross-functional agile teams and communicate technical updates to stakeholders.
• Familiarity with AWS GovCloud, FedRAMP, and observability tooling.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain scalable end-to-end automated UI and API test suites using Playwright and TypeScript across product verticals.
• Design automated data generation tools and synthetic applicant profiles using Python and REST APIs.
• Develop front-end tools in React and TypeScript for vendor and government stakeholders to generate test scenarios and monitor pipelines.
• Construct and optimize CI/CD pipelines to support quality gates and feature-driven promotion.
• Create reusable engineering patterns, self-service capabilities, and starter kits for rapid platform adoption.
• Provide code reviews, mentorship, and establish team development patterns for quality.

Skills

TypeScript

Python

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

AWS GovCloud

FedRAMP

Observability

Cross-functional teams

Governance

Tools

Terraform

DataDog

Job description

Focus is a fully remote digital services firm delivering civic tech solutions and platform enablement for U.S. government programs.

We seek a Staff Platform Engineer to design, evolve, and govern internal enterprise platforms that accelerate delivery, improve deployment safety, and ensure operational reliability across multi-vendor systems used by federal and state agencies. You will drive enterprise observability, automated CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and compliance automation,