Staff Platform Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $150k - $155k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Bixal

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2001

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

🏥 Healthcare

Marketing • Logistics • Healthcare

Bixal is a mission-driven digital services firm that partners with governments and leading organizations to design and deliver data-driven, human-centered digital transformations. The company combines technology, communications, data, and design to build digital customer experiences, modern software solutions, and training/technical assistance that improve public-sector outcomes and organizational impact.

📋 Description

• Own target-state platform architecture, golden paths, and engineering standards across the platform engineering effort • Serve as the senior-most technical authority on the platform build and provide technical direction to the Platform Enablement team • Design and evolve internal platform capabilities to improve delivery speed, deployment safety, and reliability across engineering teams • Establish infrastructure automation, delivery pipelines, and secure provisioning patterns for mission-critical, FedRAMP-authorized systems • Standardize observability, environment consistency, and release controls across multiple applications • Reduce operational toil by building self-service platform capabilities and reusable engineering patterns, including golden-path templates and IaC modules • Act as a hands-on platform leader, setting standards, driving adoption, and preventing fragmentation across teams • Partner with the client’s Product Owner and Staff Technical Product Manager on platform roadmap and prioritization • Participate in two-week Agile sprints, architecture reviews, and knowledge-sharing sessions • Perform other relevant duties as qualified and trained to perform

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and at least eight (8) years of related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience • Demonstrated experience designing and evolving internal platforms that improve delivery speed, deployment safety, and reliability across teams • Deep expertise in infrastructure automation, delivery pipelines, environment design, and secure provisioning for mission-critical systems • Proven ability to standardize observability, environment consistency, and release controls across multiple applications • Experience reducing operational toil by building self-service platform capabilities and reusable engineering patterns • Demonstrated hands-on platform leadership, including setting standards, driving adoption, and preventing fragmentation across teams • Solid experience with GitLab, Jira, Confluence, Datadog, and Terraform-based golden-path/IaC patterns • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Tier 4 High Risk Public Trust clearance • Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the US • Bixal does not provide visa sponsorship • Prior experience on federal digital services or similar large-scale, multi-team modernization contracts is nice to have • Experience applying AI-assisted development tools, such as GitLab AI features and AWS Bedrock, within FedRAMP-authorized boundaries is nice to have • Experience with federal financial or benefits systems is nice to have

🏖️ Benefits

• Flex hours • 401K with matching incentive • Parental Leave • Medical/dental/vision benefits • Flex Spending Account • Company provided short-term disability and life insurance • Commuter benefits • Paid Time Off (PTO) • 11 Paid holidays