# Senior Platform Software Engineer

**Company:** [Camber](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/camber)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $180k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Terraform, Kafka, Temporal, Postgres, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Databricks, ECS, Amazon Rds, CI/CD, Llm Tooling
**Posted:** 2026-09-03

> Senior platform engineer responsible for reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure, developer tooling, observability, and AI enablement. The role requires 6+ years in platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps, with strong AWS and incident leadership experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Ensure the reliability of core services, including PostgreSQL on RDS, ECS services, CI/CD build systems, and the OpenTelemetry observability stack on Datadog.
- Drive security initiatives that address risk with minimal friction.
- Create tools and share best practices that empower engineers to work effectively.
- Influence engineering standards for non-functional requirements.
- Collaborate across the company to understand requirements and share knowledge.
- Build the platform for AI development, including LLM tooling, engineering guardrails, and infrastructure for AI-powered product features.
- Lead incident response calmly and effectively, and model blameless postmortem and follow-up practices.

## Requirements
- 6+ years of platform engineering or an adjacent background such as SRE or DevOps.
- Knowledge of AWS and open-source tools such as Terraform, Kafka, Temporal, PostgreSQL, and OpenTelemetry.
- Strong incident leadership, judgment, planning, communication, collaboration, and customer empathy.

## Nice-to-haves
- Security and compliance experience in healthcare or another regulated industry, including HIPAA, SOC 2, or PCI.
- Experience with Datadog, Temporal, Kafka, Databricks, or Terraform.
- Experience with monorepo CI/CD systems at scale.
- Experience growing an organization at a Series B startup of approximately 30 engineers.
- Production experience with LLM tooling or infrastructure.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Salary range: $180,000–$230,000 annually.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage with nationwide coverage and virtual urgent care.
- Weekly therapy reimbursement up to $100.
- Up to 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
- 401(k), HSA, FSA, and monthly commuter benefits for NYC employees.
- Flexible paid time off.
- $100 monthly fitness stipend.

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