Senior Platform and Security Engineer
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Job Description
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Deep working knowledge of AWS and cloud architecture, with hands-on experience across services such as ECS, RDS, SQS, IAM, API Gateway, and Lambda, sufficient to design target-state infrastructure and evaluate another team's implementation
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Experience designing and reviewing CI/CD pipelines, including automated testing and safe deployment practices such as staged rollouts and rollback
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Experience building and running containerized applications with Docker in a managed orchestration environment such as ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes
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Strong backend engineering skills, including the ability to make and defend security decisions at the code level
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Demonstrated experience maturing PostgreSQL practices, including data modeling, roles, permissions, performance, and recovery
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Practical experience designing and enforcing access control and identity management across systems
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Experience partnering with security teams to reduce attack surface in production systems
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Experience with Terraform or another Infrastructure as Code tool
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Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills
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The judgment to make decisions independently and the instinct to consult the team before doing so
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Clear written and verbal communication, including with non-engineering stakeholders
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