Senior Platform Engineer

Nextech Group Limited; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Nextech Group Limited in NYC seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to own the infrastructure and developer platform behind a rapidly scaling product.

This is a hands-on senior IC role where you’ll influence architecture, improve engineering velocity and own critical production infrastructure across AWS, Kubernetes and data services. The position demands high ownership, reliability and platform evolution in a fast-growing startup environment.

Qualifications

• Strong Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, DevOps or SRE background.
• Experience owning production infrastructure at scale.
• Deep knowledge of AWS and Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong Kubernetes and containerisation experience.
• Experience building tooling that improves developer productivity.
• Understanding of distributed systems, networking and observability.
• Comfortable making architectural decisions and owning projects end-to-end.
• Experience within a start-up or high-growth environment is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the production infrastructure and developer platform.
• Shape and influence architectural decisions for scalable systems.
• Improve velocity through tooling, automation and IaC practices.
• Manage AWS-based production environments, CI/CD pipelines and observability.
• Drive reliability, performance, and security across services and data stores.
• Collaborate with product teams to enable rapid, safe deployments.

Skills

Platform engineering

Infrastructure

DevOps

SRE

AWS

IaC

Kubernetes

Containerisation

Developer tooling

Distributed systems

Networking

Observability

Architectural decisions

Startup experience

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

PostgreSQL

AWS

Observability tooling

Job description

I’m working with a VC-backed NYC start-up looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to take ownership of the infrastructure and developer platform behind a rapidly scaling product.

This is a hands-on senior IC role where you’ll influence architecture, improve engineering velocity and own critical production infrastructure.

What you’ll work on:

• AWS cloud architecture and production infrastructure
• Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
• CI/CD and developer tooling
• Observability, monitoring and incident response
• Distributed systems
• Networking and security
• PostgreSQL and data infrastructure
• Reliability, scalability and performance
• Building internal tooling and platform services
• Establishing infrastructure standards and engineering best practices

What we’re looking for:

• Strong Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, DevOps or SRE background
• Experience owning production infrastructure at scale
• Deep knowledge of AWS and Infrastructure as Code
• Strong Kubernetes and containerisation experience
• Experience building tooling that improves developer productivity
• Understanding of distributed systems, networking and observability
• Comfortable making architectural decisions and owning projects end-to-end
• Experience within a start-up or high-growth environment is highly desirable

This is ideal for someone who wants high ownership, complex technical problems and the opportunity to shape a platform rather than simply maintain one.