Senior Platform Engineer

Jahnel Group’s mission is to provide the absolute best environment for software creators to pursue their passion by connecting them with great clients doing meaningful work. This is a full time position with one of our closest clients.

Who We’re Looking For

We're in search of a Senior Platform Engineer to join our team right away. The ideal candidate will help shape the foundation of their technology. In this role, you’ll collaborate across teams to build the tooling and platforms that supercharge engineering productivity and you'll design and manage scalable cloud infrastructure.

Instead of the typical job description, here's a breakdown of tasks and qualities we're looking for in their potential team member:

Primary Responsibilities

• Partner with internal teams to build and maintain tooling and platforms that enhance engineering productivity and operational excellence.
• Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability.
• Own and improve CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, local development environments, multi-staging instances, and ephemeral environments for fast iteration.
• Provide support and guidance to product teams across all lines to enable smooth feature delivery.
• Establish and teach standards for code maintainability, performance, and reliability through code review and mentorship.
• Drive observability best practices by implementing monitoring, alerting, and tracing with Datadog across all services.
• Stay current with emerging tools and technologies, recommending opportunities to improve operational efficiency and platform capabilities.

Skills and Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering experience.
• 2+ years of DevOps or relevant experience managing and automating cloud infrastructure deployment (AWS preferred).
• Strong experience with and interest in:
  • AWS (Fargate, Lambda, Step Functions, etc.)
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Terraform CDK, AWS CDK)
  • Python 3
  • Postgres (AWS RDS) and DynamoDB
  • Containerized workflows (Docker, Podman, etc.)
  • Serverless workflows (Lambda, EventBridge, Step Functions, message queues)
  • Monitoring, alerting, tracing with Datadog
  • GitHub and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)

Nice to Have Qualification

• React with TypeScript experience.
• Familiarity with HIPAA and SOC 2 compliance processes.
• Automated testing (E2E, integration, unit).
• Workflow orchestration tools (Temporal.io, Airflow, etc.).
• Experience building or consuming GraphQL APIs.

Where We’re Looking For It

• New York, New York
• Hybrid

Compensation Package (Salary Transparency for US Based Employees)

• Salary Range: $170,000 - $210,000
• Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition to base salary, we also offer competitive equity and benefits packages.