Senior Platform Engineer — AI Infra & Cloud

District Partners Llc; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

District Partners LLC is seeking a senior engineer to help build foundational software and infrastructure. You will own core capabilities, design scalable services, and drive production readiness while partnering with security and product teams.

You’ll work in a hybrid Northern Virginia setup with significant ownership from design through deployment, contributing to robust, observable, and secure systems that power growth.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• End-to-end ownership from design to production operation.
• Strong development skills in Python, Go, Rust, Java, or similar languages.
• Experience building production services, APIs, or distributed systems.
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
• Experience developing CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows.
• Strong software engineering practices, including automated testing, version control, and code review.
• Ability to collaborate across engineering teams and translate requirements into solid design.

Responsibilities

• Build infrastructure software and platform capabilities from the ground up, owning requirements, architecture, development, testing, deployment, and ongoing improvement.
• Write production-quality code for services, APIs, automation frameworks, and internal engineering tools.
• Design and evolve AWS infrastructure to support secure, scalable development and production workloads.
• Develop Kubernetes-based capabilities to simplify deployment, running, and management of applications.
• Build reusable Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and integrate into delivery workflows.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines, release tooling, and deployment automation to improve software delivery.
• Incorporate observability, reliability, and security from design to production.
• Investigate issues across software and infrastructure, addressing root causes through code and architecture.
• Work with product engineering and security teams to meet real development and operational needs.
• Help establish design, testing, code review, and documentation standards as the team grows.

Skills

Python

Go

Rust

Java

CI/CD

Automated testing

Version control

Code review

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

District Partners LLC is seeking a senior engineer to help build foundational software and infrastructure. You will own core capabilities, design scalable services, and drive production readiness while partnering with security and product teams.

You’ll work in a hybrid Northern Virginia setup with significant ownership from design through deployment, contributing to robust, observable, and secure systems that power growth.