Job Description
A Senior Platform Engineer at Plus Power is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining reliable, scalable cloud-native backend systems and data infrastructure in AWS to support energy asset operations, analytics, and market participation, with a focus on operational excellence and technical ownership.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate backend services, internal platforms, and shared infrastructure to support data pipelines, analytics, and application workloads.
- Architect and manage AWS-based cloud-native systems focusing on reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform for cloud asset management and operational workflows.
- Enable and support data platforms, analytics systems, and ML-related workloads through reliable backend and platform services.
- Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines, establish observability standards, and participate in incident response and root cause analysis.
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years of professional experience across platform engineering, backend engineering, data engineering, CloudOps, or SRE roles.
- Strong backend development experience, including building and operating production services or internal platforms.
- Prior experience on data platform, analytics, or machine learning infrastructure teams is preferred.
- Significant hands-on experience with AWS, including services such as VPC, IAM, EKS, ECS, RDS, S3, and related managed services.
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures, messaging systems, or streaming data patterns is preferred.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
- Experience operating containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes in production environments.
- Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, and automated testing.
- Experience building or evolving internal developer platforms or shared infrastructure services is preferred.
- Experience working with relational databases and data-intensive systems.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical information to diverse audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and effectively in a cross-functional environment with both technical and non-technical team members who are geographically dispersed.
- Proven ability to stay connected and maintain communication across distributed teams in hybrid or remote settings.
Benefits & Perks
Highly competitive total compensation starting at $150,000, with potential for more based on experience and qualifications
Flexible work arrangements including work from home or hybrid options at multiple locations across North America
Participation in an annual bonus program
Comprehensive benefits package
Unlimited vacation policy
Flexible remote work options
Work from home stipend
Educational assistance
Parental leave
Opportunities for in-person connection, learning, and growth
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