# Senior Platform Software Engineer

**Company:** [Standard Template Labs](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/standard-template-labs)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $160k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** AWS, amazon eks, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Infrastructure As Code, Datadog, Postgres, Kafka, Redis, Temporal, Distributed Systems, CI/CD, distributed tracing, ai/ml infrastructure
**Posted:** 2026-05-04

> Build and operate internal developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD systems, and observability tooling that improve engineering productivity and production reliability. The role requires hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, distributed systems, and infrastructure automation.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

### Developer Productivity & Internal Platform
- Build and evolve the internal developer platform (IDP).
- Create self-service tooling for provisioning services, environments, and infrastructure.
- Improve local development workflows, testing, deployment ergonomics, and developer feedback loops.
- Reduce operational friction through automation and platform abstractions.

### CI/CD & Release Engineering
- Design and maintain scalable CI/CD systems using GitHub Actions and infrastructure-as-code workflows.
- Improve build times, deployment reliability, rollback, and recovery systems.
- Create deployment workflows that are fast, observable, and reliable in production.

### Cloud Infrastructure & Kubernetes
- Design and operate cloud-native systems on AWS, EKS, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Improve platform scalability, resilience, and developer onboarding.
- Define service architecture and deployment standards across the engineering organization.

### Observability & Reliability
- Own platform observability using Datadog, metrics, logging, and distributed tracing.
- Build dashboards, alerts, and operational tooling for engineers.
- Improve reliability, performance, and operational visibility across services.

### Distributed Systems & Platform Services
- Work across core infrastructure systems including PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, and Temporal.

### Engineering Enablement
- Partner with backend and AI engineers to improve platform usability.
- Establish engineering standards and platform best practices.
- Treat infrastructure as a product rather than a support function.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience building internal developer platforms (IDPs).
- Experience in high-growth or early-stage startups.
- Experience with AI/ML infrastructure.
- Experience designing multi-service distributed systems.

## Compensation
- Estimated yearly salary: **$160,000–$250,000 USD**.

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