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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Platform Engineer - **Company:** Burq, Inc. - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Software System Penetration Testing, Continuous Integration, Github, Identity and Access Management, Software Reliability Testing, Datadog, S3 Bucket, Amazon ElastiCache, Delivery Pipeline, State Machines, Amazon Relational Database Service, AWS Fargate, Opsworks, Functional Programming, Cloudwatch, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Terraform, Docker - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-platform-engineer-burq-inc-8760027 ## About the Role We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to be the founding member of Burq's Platform team - the function that owns our engineering foundations: infrastructure, security, CI/CD, and reliability. Right now, our infrastructure runs on AWS with a combination of ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, SQS, and Step Functions. We have a strong contractor advising us, but we need a full-time engineer who can own this domain, execute on a significant infrastructure roadmap, and make every product team faster as a result. This is a high-leverage, high-ownership role. You will be designing and building the platform that Burq scales on for the next several years., * Own and improve our GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines - build times, test reliability, deployment velocity * Build out PR stack environments so product teams can test independently * Drive the local development stack initiative - Docker Compose-based environments that replace shared preprod * Integrate AI-assisted testing into the CI pipeline, * 5+ years of engineering experience with 3+ years focused on infrastructure and platform engineering * Deep AWS expertise - ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, SQS, Lambda, account architecture * Terraform proficiency - you write infrastructure as code and know why it matters * Strong CI/CD background - GitHub Actions, deployment pipelines, environment management * Security-minded - you know how to harden systems without creating friction for product engineers * Experience with observability tooling - CloudWatch, Datadog, or equivalen ## Description * Own and execute the AWS account split - separating production, staging, and development into clean isolated environments * Lead the Aurora DB production migration with support from our infrastructure advisor * Manage and evolve our ECS Fargate services, RDS clusters, ElastiCache, SQS queues, and ALB configuration, * Harden IAM - developer permission sets, production access controls, least-privilege enforcement * Audit and lock down public S3 buckets * Enable AWS Config and Security Hub across all accounts * Own SOC 2 Type 2 readiness maintenance in partnership with Sprinto * Coordinate external penetration test cadence, * Own CloudWatch dashboards spanning ALB, ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, SQS, and target group health * Lead post-incident reviews and ensure every incident produces a runbook entry * Partner with product teams to distribute platform work as a standing sprint allocation - not a separate queue ## Related Videos - [Platform Engineering vs. DevOps Why not both?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/885-platform-engineering-vs-devops-why-not-both) - [Debugging in the Dark](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1658-debugging-in-the-dark) - [Innovating Developer Tools with AI: Insights from GitHub Next](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1268-innovating-developer-tools-with-ai-insights-from-github-next) - [Docker Compose: Rediscovered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1978-docker-compose-rediscovered) - [Empowering Thousands of Developers: Our Journey to an Internal Developer Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1519-empowering-thousands-of-developers-our-journey-to-an-internal-developer-platform) - [Software Engineering Social Connection: Yubo’s lean approach to scaling an 80M-user infrastructure](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1583-software-engineering-social-connection-yubo-s-lean-approach-to-scaling-an-80m-user-infrastructure) ## Related Articles - [Where To Find Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/396-where-to-find-software-engineering-jobs) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Find a Developer Job: 12 Best Job Sites For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/165-find-a-developer-job-12-best-job-sites-for-developers) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [What is Software Engineering in the Age of AI?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/640-what-is-software-engineering-in-the-age-of-ai)