Staff Platform Engineer, Infrastructure
True Anomaly3 months ago
Denver, CO, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$150k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and enterprise rollout of foundational cloud infrastructure.
- Design and operate multi-cloud account structures, guardrails, shared networking, and identity.
- Own self-service workflows for provisioning accounts, bootstrapping resources, and deploying through governed paved roads.
- Author and maintain reusable Terraform infrastructure and establish platform engineering standards.
- Establish enterprise CI/CD, testing, and deployment standards and drive adoption across teams.
- Build self-service tooling that enables engineering teams to provision, deploy, and operate systems independently.
- Evaluate and select cloud services, infrastructure tooling, and platforms, including build-versus-buy decisions.
- Lead, coach, and mentor the first infrastructure engineers and set the technical engineering bar.
- Partner with engineering, security, and IT to satisfy government security and compliance requirements.
- Use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery and support team adoption.
Requirements
- Typically 8+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, SRE, or cloud engineering with technical leadership experience.
- Strong software background and experience building, deploying, and operating production applications on cloud platforms.
- Deep experience designing and operating production cloud infrastructure at scale on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Strong infrastructure-as-code experience, including authoring reusable Terraform modules and infrastructure.
- Experience establishing CI/CD, continuous testing, and deployment standards across multiple teams or products.
- Working knowledge of networking fundamentals including HTTP, ports, DNS, firewalls, security groups, and cloud networking primitives.
- Experience using AI-powered development tools to deliver production code and automate routine work.
- Ability to influence across organizations and coach and mentor teams through complex technical projects.
- U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance.
- Preferred experience includes enterprise-scale infrastructure, containers and orchestration, service mesh, artifact or registry management, developer experience, government cloud, FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, IL4/IL5, enterprise networking, observability, reliability engineering, IAM, secrets management, and regulated or defense environments.
- Active U.S. Secret or Top Secret clearance is preferred.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision coverage
- HRA/HSA options
- PTO and paid holidays
- 401(k)
- Parental leave
- Hybrid work arrangement in Long Beach, CA or Denver, CO, with an average of at least three days per week in the office
- Position may require additional onsite work when classified systems are involved
Tech Stack
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About True Anomaly
True Anomaly builds spacecraft and software for space defense, including autonomous satellites, precision-sensing payloads, mission command-and-control software, and space-based interceptors for national security and commercial operators. Founded in 2022 by former U.S. Space Force members, it is privately held and headquartered in Englewood, Colorado. The company sells hardware, AI-enabled flight software, and mission operations services to U.S. and allied defense programs and space infrastructure providers.