Senior Platform Engineer, Remote – Reliability & Infra

Nametag; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote‑first

Quarterly team off‑sites

Flexible schedules

Job summary

Nametag is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own infrastructure, reliability, and platform engineering. You will design and scale systems for a fast‑moving identity verification platform, emphasizing uptime, security, and developer experience.

Lead deployment strategy across monoliths and microservices, build internal tooling, and collaborate with product engineers to improve usability and reduce toil. Remote‑first with US‑based teams, competitive salary and equity offered.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience managing and securing cloud infrastructure (AWS; Fly.io or similar a plus).
• Production experience with Terraform or equivalent tools for infrastructure‑as‑code.
• Deep experience with PostgreSQL including schema design, migrations, and query performance tuning.
• Strong experience designing and managing CI/CD pipelines; GitHub Actions preferred.
• Proficiency in modern, type‑safe languages; Go strongly preferred.
• Experience building and operating logging, tracing, and metrics systems in production.
• Prior experience shipping ML infrastructure into production, not just experimentation.
• Worked at an early‑stage startup and moved fast without compromising reliability and security.
• Security‑minded by default; design with threat models in mind.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, cost‑effective cloud infrastructure across AWS and Fly.io.

Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure

Infrastructure-as-Code

Databases

CI/CD

Languages

Observability

MLOps & Data Pipelines

Startup experience

Security

Job description

Nametag is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own infrastructure, reliability, and platform engineering. You will design and scale systems for a fast‑moving identity verification platform, emphasizing uptime, security, and developer experience.

Lead deployment strategy across monoliths and microservices, build internal tooling, and collaborate with product engineers to improve usability and reduce toil. Remote‑first with US‑based teams, competitive salary and equity offered.