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Staff Platform Engineer / Platform Architect
100% Remote | West Coast Hours
Ideal Profile
The strongest candidate is someone who has actually built platforms, not simply supported established enterprise infrastructure.
This person should be comfortable joining a small team where the architecture and processes are still being developed, taking broad ownership, moving quickly, and working across AWS, IaC, CI/CD, deployments, and production operations.
Overview
Seeking a highly hands-on Staff Platform Engineer / Platform Architect to help design and build a new cloud platform from the ground up. This is a true greenfield environment where the engineer will have significant ownership over cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, deployment architecture, automation, and production operations.
This is not a traditional infrastructure support role. The ideal candidate has experience working in startup-style or small engineering environments, partnering directly with application/product engineers, and taking infrastructure from initial design through production.
Must-Haves
- Staff/Principal-level Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, or Platform Architecture experience.
- Deep hands-on AWS experience.
- Strong Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform.
- Strong experience with TypeScript.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, ideally with GitHub Actions or similar tooling.
- Proven experience building cloud/platform infrastructure from the ground up.
- Experience owning infrastructure across the full lifecycle: architecture build deployment production operations.
- Strong understanding of cloud architecture, deployment, scalability, reliability, and operational practices.
- Experience working directly with software/product engineering teams rather than solely within a centralized infrastructure organization.
- Experience in a greenfield, startup, or small-team environment with minimal established processes.
- Ability to operate across multiple areas of platform engineering rather than specializing in only one infrastructure function.
- Strong system design and technical architecture skills.
- Hands-on experience using AI development tools such as Claude, Gemini, Copilot, or similar tools as part of engineering workflows.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to explain architecture decisions and technical trade-offs.
- Ability to work primarily West Coast hours.
Preferred
- Pulumi experience.
- Experience with agentic AI or AI-assisted platform/infrastructure engineering.
- Experience building developer tooling and improving developer experience.
- Experience working on high-volume e-commerce, booking, transaction, or SaaS platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and build AWS infrastructure supporting a new cloud-based platform.
- Establish and evolve Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform and related technologies.
- Build and maintain CI/CD and automated deployment pipelines.
- Partner closely with application engineers on infrastructure, deployment, and operational decisions.
- Design scalable, reliable, and production-ready platform architecture.
- Help establish platform engineering standards and operational practices in a greenfield environment.
- Automate infrastructure and engineering workflows wherever possible.
- Leverage AI tools to improve engineering productivity and problem-solving.
- Own solutions through implementation, deployment, and production operations.
- Provide Staff-level technical leadership while remaining highly hands-on.
Interested candidates may submit their resumes online or call at for further information regarding the position.
Beacon Hill is an equal opportunity employer and individuals with disabilities and/or protected veterans are encouraged to apply.
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Company Profile:
Beacon Hill Technologies, a premier National Information Technology Staffing Group, provides world class technology talent across all industries utilizing a complete suite of staffing services. Beacon Hill Technologies' dedicated team of recruiting and staffing experts consistently delivers quality IT professionals to solve our customers' technical and business needs.
Beacon Hill Technologies covers a broad spectrum of IT positions, including Project Management and Business Analysis, Programming/Development, Database, Infrastructure, Quality Assurance, Production/Support and ERP roles.
Learn more about Beacon Hill and our specialty divisions, Beacon Hill Associates, Beacon Hill Financial, Beacon Hill HR, Beacon Hill Legal, Beacon Hill Life Sciences and Beacon Hill Technologies by visiting .
Benefits Information:
Beacon Hill offers a robust benefit package including, but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, and federal and state leave programs as required by applicable agency regulations to those that meet eligibility. Upon successfully being hired, details will be provided related to our benefit offerings.
We look forward to working with you.
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