[Hiring] Platform Engineering Specialist @Boldr

Role Description

As a Platform Engineering Specialist, you build and run the internal platform that Boldr teams use to ship software safely. You lead our cloud foundations, delivery pipelines, and platform security, sharing ownership with the team so more than one person can always run them, enabling engineers and non-engineers who build with AI to deploy to secure, governed environments without having to become infrastructure experts.

• Design the paved road: AWS environments, CI/CD, environment promotion, automated security checks, access control, and observability.
• Work with the Product lead and engineers to turn their needs into reusable tooling.
• Share your infrastructure knowledge across the team.
• Act as a full-stack engineer, building and shipping features across web applications, APIs, and integrations.
• Set direction for your area and make sound technical calls independently.
• Be accountable for the reliability, security, and cost of the platform and the quality of the code you ship.
• Collaborate with the Product Team Lead to deliver technical solutions for Boldrific platform solutions.
• Support team members on shared goals and provide guidance on engineering best practices.

Qualifications

• Curious and authentic.
• Proactive and highly self-motivated.
• Able to pay attention to details while keeping the long-term vision in mind.
• Able to adapt to change and learn quickly.
• Eager to learn and expand knowledge in wider aspects of Software Engineering.
• A team player who communicates with ease and gives/receives feedback gracefully.
• Effective in multitasking and prioritizing tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Thorough functional knowledge and coding experience.
• Creative and solutions-oriented.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for complex, multi-system issues.
• Demonstrates architectural thinking and the ability to design scalable, robust, and maintainable software solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in software engineering, including production full-stack development, with 3+ years in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering.
• Strong full-stack skills in TypeScript, JavaScript, or Python, with front-end and back-end frameworks (NodeJS, NestJS, Vue/Nuxt or similar).
• Experience building RESTful APIs, third-party integrations, and relational database designs (SQL).
• Strong hands-on AWS experience: Organizations and multi-account setups, IAM, VPC, ECS or other container services, RDS, CloudWatch, Route 53.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation).
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, ideally GitHub Actions.
• Experience with Docker and containerized deployments.
• Experience with secrets management and security scanning in the delivery path.
• Experience implementing authentication and authorization across systems, ideally with a central identity provider (OIDC/OAuth2).
• Experience with database administration, backups, and scaling in production.
• Demonstrated understanding of secure and ethical use of LLMs in software development.

Benefits

• Impact-driven work environment.
• Opportunity to help Boldr grow and achieve its Purpose.
• Supportive team culture that champions core values: Curious, Dynamic, and Authentic.