Senior Platform Engineer — Cloud & Edge Platform Delivery

vibehackers

Westborough (MA)

Hybrid

USD 180,000 - 230,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

vibehackers is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the central cloud platform, serving production plants with edge-to-cloud software delivery and robust observability. You will own architecture, release channels to remote devices, CI/CD pipelines, and cross-team collaboration to ensure reliable OTA updates and incident remediation.

Role requires hands-on design authority, IaC excellence, and experience with multiple clouds.

Qualifications

7+ years professional software engineering experience with ownership of production systems.
Architecture ownership across teams or products with written designs/decision records/specifications.
Experience building/operating software delivery to remote/installed machines (release channels, staged rollout, rollback, verification over intermittent/customer networks).
Experience operating a source-of-truth for deployed state, versions, configuration, and change history with reconciliation.
Infrastructure-as-code delivered to production (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, Pulumi, or equivalent) with defensible state/drift/rollback story.
Daily working use of containers and CI/CD; experience operating containerized services under an orchestrator or managed container service and building pipelines.
Production use of at least one major public cloud (Azure, AWS, or GCP) covering networking, managed databases, storage, identity, TLS, and secrets.
Strong programming in at least two languages used for services or automation; systems-level C or C++ experience, including shipping libraries for other teams.
Linux and Git as daily tools; observability practice and instrumented systems used to find real faults.
Experience directing AI-assisted development (vibe coding) agents through multi-step work and critically reviewing their output.
Able to write designs and specifications and lead delivery across distributed teams.
Eligible to work on-site in Westborough, MA.

Responsibilities

Define and document platform architecture, service boundaries, data schemas, versioning and compatibility rules, and tenant isolation; author decision records and interface specifications.
Lead the contract between edge machines and central services and provide common tooling for all product lines (edge-to-cloud protocols, compatibility gating, and versioning).
Turn platform and infrastructure designs into operated software: decompose work, sequence across contributors, run review cadence, and be accountable for delivery dates.
Design and operate software delivery to installed systems: release channels, staged rollouts, resumable transfers over intermittent links, rollback, and end-state verification.
Maintain a durable, queryable source-of-truth for deployed systems (hardware, software versions, configs, change history) with reconciliation practices to detect drift.
Ensure installed systems report health, alarms, uptime and configuration back to central views over constrained or customer-controlled networks.
Define structured diagnostics and secure retrieval workflows for field evidence and support operations.
Operate and own CI/CD, build agents, artifact/package hosting, code signing, test/simulation harnesses, reproducible dev environments, and release engineering for central services (including AI-agent tooling/harnesses).
Govern infrastructure-as-code, managed databases, storage, networking, identity/secrets, containerized deployment, per-customer isolation, and per-service/tenant metrics, logs, and alerting.