Senior Platform Engineer
Burq, Inc.3 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Responsibilities
- Own and execute AWS account separation for production, staging, and development environments.
- Lead the Aurora DB production migration with support from the infrastructure advisor.
- Manage and evolve ECS Fargate services, RDS clusters, ElastiCache, SQS queues, and ALB configuration.
- Own Terraform-based infrastructure as code.
- Harden IAM permissions and production access controls and enforce least privilege.
- Audit and secure public S3 buckets and enable AWS Config and Security Hub across accounts.
- Maintain SOC 2 Type 2 readiness with Sprinto and coordinate external penetration testing.
- Own and improve GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines, deployment environments, and build and test reliability.
- Build PR stack environments and Docker Compose-based local development environments.
- Integrate AI-assisted testing into the CI pipeline.
- Own CloudWatch dashboards and lead post-incident reviews and runbook creation.
- Partner with product teams to distribute platform work through standing sprint allocations.
Requirements
- 5+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ years focused on infrastructure and platform engineering.
- Deep expertise with AWS, including ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, SQS, Lambda, and account architecture.
- Proficiency with Terraform and infrastructure as code.
- Strong CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions, deployment pipelines, and environment management.
- Security-minded approach to hardening systems while minimizing friction for product engineers.
- Experience with observability tools such as CloudWatch or Datadog.
Benefits
- Fully remote work arrangement.
- Medical, vision, and dental insurance.
- Reimbursement for educational courses.
About Burq, Inc.
Burq builds a delivery management platform and APIs for enterprises that need reliable last‑mile logistics without stitching together multiple carriers and tools. Its Pulse AI agents automate quoting and carrier selection, dispatch across in‑house and third‑party fleets, routing, batching, exception handling, customer updates, and performance analytics for grocery, floral, and specialty retail. Founded in 2021, the company is privately held and raised a Series A in 2024.