Platform Engineer
GovSignals1 month ago
Base Salary
$160k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Operate the product across commercial cloud, AWS GovCloud FedRAMP High, and IL5 environments.
- Maintain and operate Kubernetes clusters, GitOps pipelines, networking, and observability.
- Make new environment setup repeatable and adapt tooling for restricted networks.
- Build infrastructure for AI agents, automated remediation loops, and engineer-facing deployment tooling.
- Integrate customer data with the deployment team and support enterprise and government users.
- Own infrastructure in production and explain security controls to customer security teams.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or security engineering roles.
- Experience building infrastructure that other engineers depend on.
- Deep production Kubernetes experience, including cluster operations, networking, GitOps, and upgrades without downtime.
- Experience taking infrastructure through a real migration or scaling event and explaining what failed.
- Experience building secure-by-default infrastructure using hardened images, least-privilege access, network policy, and secrets management.
- Preferred: experience with FedRAMP, IL, HIPAA, or other regulated environments; Postgres operations; backend TypeScript; or open-source infrastructure work.
- An active or previous security clearance is a plus but is not required.
- Must be a U.S. citizen or other U.S. Person.
Benefits
- Base salary of $160,000–$230,000 plus meaningful equity.
- Medical, vision, and dental benefits.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Full-time hybrid role requiring at least 3 days per week in the Brooklyn Navy Yard office.
- Unlimited Claude and ChatGPT credits for reasonable use.
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About GovSignals
GovSignals builds an AI platform for government contracting that supports pre-RFP intelligence, capture, proposal development, and knowledge management across federal, state, and local markets. The privately held company, founded in 2023 and headquartered in Washington, DC, sells to government contractors and agencies, operating in FedRAMP High and IL5 environments. Its software focuses on RFP automation and compliant proposal generation to help teams pursue and manage acquisitions more efficiently.