Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Plus Power is an energy storage market leader, focused on transforming North American electric grids into cleaner infrastructure. They are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to develop and operate backend systems and cloud-native platforms, ensuring reliable and scalable solutions that support their asset operations and analytics.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend services, internal platforms, and shared infrastructure that enable data pipelines, analytics, and application workloads
• Apply a strong focus on CI pipeline design, operational reliability, and cloud cost awareness as first‑class engineering concerns
• Write high-quality, maintainable, and testable production code, primarily in Python
• Partner with application and data engineers to define service boundaries, APIs, data contracts, and operational requirements
• Contribute to architectural decisions with an emphasis on long-term maintainability, reliability, and clarity
• Architect and operate AWS-based, cloud-native systems with an emphasis on reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency
• Own the full lifecycle of platform and service components, including design, implementation, deployment, observability, and incident response
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform to manage cloud assets and operational workflows
• Enable and support data platforms, analytics systems, and ML-adjacent workloads through reliable backend and platform services
• Design systems that integrate with relational databases, object storage, and event-driven data flows
• Work closely with data engineers and analysts to ensure systems meet requirements for data correctness, availability, and performance
• Set and evolve best practices for cloud-based data management through platform design, automation, and standards
• Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines that test, validate, and deploy both application and infrastructure code
• Establish and maintain observability standards using metrics, logs, and alerts
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead root cause analysis and long-term system improvements following incidents

Skills

• 5+ years of professional experience across platform engineering, backend engineering, data engineering, CloudOps, or SRE roles
• Strong backend development experience, including building and operating production services or internal platforms
• Significant hands-on experience with AWS, including services such as VPC, IAM, EKS/ECS, RDS, S3, and related managed services
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and/or CloudFormation)
• Experience operating containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes in production environments
• Solid understanding of CI/CD, Git-based workflows, and automated testing
• Strong operational mindset, including comfort owning production systems and participating in on-call rotations
• Experience working with relational databases and data-intensive systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical information to diverse audiences
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and effectively in a cross-functional environment with both technical and non-technical team members who are geographically dispersed
• Proven ability to stay connected and maintain communication across distributed teams in hybrid or remote settings
• Prior experience on data platform, analytics, or ML infrastructure teams preferred
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, messaging systems, or streaming data patterns preferred
• Experience building or evolving internal developer platforms or shared infrastructure services preferred

Benefits

• Annual bonus program
• Competitive and comprehensive benefits program
• Unlimited vacation
• Flexible remote work
• Work from home stipend
• Educational assistance
• Parental leave
• Highly engaging company culture with opportunities for in-person connection and learning and growth

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