Senior Platform Engineer | Python & AWS, Scale & Impact

Evolution USA; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Evolution USA is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and scale core backend systems powering the platform. You’ll own critical services, collaborate with product, data, and ML teams, and help shape the technical direction.

You will tackle complex problems, drive engineering best practices, and ship reliable systems for a growing customer base, with autonomy and ownership in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong expertise building backend services with Python.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, databases, APIs and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience deploying and operating production systems within AWS.
• Hands-on with EKS, ECS, Lambda, networking and cloud infra.
• Experience using Terraform and IaC tooling.
• Excellent communication across technical and non-technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, and platform infrastructure.
• Improve system reliability, observability, performance, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with data and machine learning teams on shared platform initiatives.
• Support data processing, orchestration, and model deployment workflows.
• Design and maintain integrations with external systems and technology partners.
• Define and implement API standards and data contracts.
• Influence architecture decisions, engineering standards, testing strategies, and deployment processes.
• Help improve CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and operational efficiency.
• Mentor engineers on system design, debugging, and best practices.
• Contribute to a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Backend engineering

Python

Distributed systems

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Security best practices

Communication

Tools

Python

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Lambda

Job description

Evolution USA is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and scale core backend systems powering the platform. You’ll own critical services, collaborate with product, data, and ML teams, and help shape the technical direction.

You will tackle complex problems, drive engineering best practices, and ship reliable systems for a growing customer base, with autonomy and ownership in a fast-paced environment.