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# Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Bold Penguin
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $113,500.0 - $140,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Apache HTTP Server, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Databases, Information Engineering, Software Debugging, Github, Monitoring of Systems, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Ruby, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Datadog, AWS Cdk, Delivery Pipeline, Snowflake, Grafana, Apache Spark, Amazon Relational Database Service, Containerization, Kubernetes, AWS Glue, Terraform, Docker
- **Published:** June 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=1f417fbf524598c0

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Tooling?, * 3-5 years of relevant engineering experience.

 * Strong software engineering background (Python or Ruby preferred), with experience developing, containerizing, and debugging applications within distributed, cloud-native architectures.
 * Strong understanding of cloud platforms, particularly AWS, with hands-on experience building cloud-based environments and managing container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS).
 * Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (AWS CodePipeline, GitHub Actions).
 * Experience building and maintaining large-scale Infrastructure as Code deployments (AWS CDK, Terraform).
 * Experience with monitoring and observability concepts and tools (DataDog, Grafana).
 * Understanding of security, compliance, and governance best practices.

Nice to have:

 * Experience with database technologies (SQL, PostgreSQL, AWS RDS).
 * Experience in data engineering (Apache Spark, Apache Iceberg, AWS Glue, Snowflake).

Physical Requirements

 * Must be able to sit/stand/walk for prolonged periods of time, (up to 8 hours per day) at a desk working on a computer.
 * Must be able to use standard office equipment for extended periods of time, including but not limited to, a mouse, keyboard, phone and video conferencing.

## Description

* Contribute to the automation of manual tasks and managing large-scale infrastructure across cloud environments.
 * Support the automation of software delivery processes to improve release speed, safety, and reliability.
 * Apply security and compliance best practices within platform workflows and data processes.
 * Help implement monitoring and observability for automated workflows and pipelines.
 * Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand needs and build workflow automations.
 * Research and propose tools and approaches that improve platform capabilities.
 * Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.


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