Senior Platform Engineer - Cloud, Infra & Automation

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

Job summary

District Partners is expanding its engineering organization in the U.S., seeking senior software engineers with deep infrastructure expertise. You’ll help shape platform architecture, tooling, and automation across SDLC, enabling rapid, secure software delivery.

Join a team building infrastructure foundations, cloud-native capabilities, and developer tooling with a strong emphasis on engineering standards, observability, and scalable platforms. Hybrid work in Northern Virginia is available.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or related disciplines.
• Strong software development experience using Python, Go, Rust, Java, or similar modern programming languages.
• Experience building internal tooling, automation frameworks, developer platforms, APIs, services, or platform capabilities.
• Strong understanding of modern SDLC practices and deployment automation.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building the infrastructure foundation that supports modern software development.
• Writing production-quality code to develop internal tooling, automation frameworks, APIs, platform services, and developer utilities.
• Building scalable CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and software delivery workflows.
• Developing automation that improves engineering productivity and operational efficiency.
• Building Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or similar technologies.
• Designing and supporting Kubernetes-based platforms that enable secure and scalable application delivery.
• Supporting modern DevOps and software delivery workflows.
• Improving observability, monitoring, reliability, scalability, and operational maturity.
• Working across software engineering, infrastructure, security, and operations to deliver secure, scalable technical solutions.
• Helping establish engineering standards, SDLC best practices, platform architecture, and long-term technical direction.

Skills

Python

Go

Rust

Java

Cloud (AWS)

System design

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

District Partners is expanding its engineering organization in the U.S., seeking senior software engineers with deep infrastructure expertise. You’ll help shape platform architecture, tooling, and automation across SDLC, enabling rapid, secure software delivery.

Join a team building infrastructure foundations, cloud-native capabilities, and developer tooling with a strong emphasis on engineering standards, observability, and scalable platforms. Hybrid work in Northern Virginia is available.