# Platform Engineer

**Company:** [AirOps](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/airops)
**Location:** New York, NY, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** CI/CD, AWS, ECS, Rds, Kubernetes, Observability, Alerting, Health Checks, Ruby on Rails, Agentic Coding, Database Operations, Deployment Pipelines, Infrastructure Management
**Posted:** 2026-05-01

> Builds and owns developer platform infrastructure including CI/CD pipelines, environment parity, observability, and AI-assisted tooling on AWS ECS/RDS. Requires 5+ years designing deployment systems, production AWS debugging, and eliminating deployment toil.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Own the deployment pipeline end to end: CI/CD from commit to production, including staging build gating, automated rollback, and zero-manual-step deploys
- Ensure environment parity across dev, staging, and production: DB initialization, auth configs, integration consistency, and review apps
- Build incident reduction infrastructure: app-level health checks, migration safeguards, automated alerting on deploy failures, and deployment guardrails
- Improve observability: fix false-positive exceptions, make request time metrics useful, clean up tech debt in service naming
- Integrate agentic coding: evaluate and deploy AI-assisted developer tooling (automated bug trackers, code review automation, environment provisioning)
- Manage ECS operations and infrastructure: running tasks, container orchestration, RDS, and new environment setup

## Requirements

- 5+ years building and improving CI/CD pipelines across dev, staging, and production environments (designed these systems, not just consumed them)
- Production AWS experience with ECS, RDS, and related services (can debug infrastructure issues live)
- Mix of startup and larger-scale experience
- Track record of eliminating deployment toil (automated manual steps, built guardrails, redesigned workflows for reliability)
- Opinions about developer productivity backed by shipped tooling or process improvements
- Solid fundamentals in database operations and security practices in production environments
- Hands-on use of agentic coding tools in real workflows

## Nice to Haves

- Ruby on Rails deployment experience
- Experience building automated developer tooling that a team actually adopted

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