Staff Platform Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $165k - $180k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Focus

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2018

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Focus is a consulting firm that partners with government agencies to deliver impactful digital services. The company specializes in improving access to critical services, modernizing systems, and leveraging technology to create efficient solutions that meet the needs of both users and agencies. With a focus on human-centered design and iterative development, Focus aims to create accessible and effective government solutions.

📋 Description

• Design, evolve, and govern internal enterprise platforms that accelerate delivery, deployment safety, and operational reliability • Drive enterprise observability, automated CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and compliance automation • Reduce operational toil and standardize environment configurations across vendors and integrated business applications • Architect, build, and maintain scalable end-to-end automated UI and API test suites using Playwright and TypeScript • Develop automated data generation tools and synthetic applicant profile generators using Python and REST APIs • Build front-end tools in React and TypeScript for vendors and government stakeholders to generate test scenarios and monitor pipeline status • Construct, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines with quality gates and feature-driven promotion practices • Build reusable engineering patterns, self-service platform capabilities, CLI utilities, and starter kits • Conduct code reviews and provide 1:1 mentorship • Serve as a technical liaison to client leads and external vendor teams • Support cloud infrastructure updates using Terraform • Embed automated security scanning and navigate continuous compliance in a FedRAMP/Public Trust environment • Collaborate on systems supporting tens of millions of American students and borrowers

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of professional experience developing full-stack applications and tooling using TypeScript and Python • Practical experience writing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform • Experience designing complex systems interacting with external services, databases, and third-party APIs • Experience working on cross-functional agile teams • Experience estimating complex engineering tasks • Experience communicating technical updates directly to client stakeholders • Strong diagnostic skills for complex, distributed multi-vendor application failures and microservices • Prior experience on federal government digital service projects or civic tech programs • Familiarity with AWS GovCloud environments • Familiarity with FedRAMP compliance standards • Familiarity with observability tooling • Experience implementing synthetic test data generators or complex mock data services for enterprise integrations • Legal authorization to work in the United States • Ability to meet other requirements for government contracts • Work authorization that does not require visa sponsorship now or in the future • May be subject to a government background check or security clearance • Must be based in the continental United States

🏖️ Benefits

• Healthy work-life balance • Encouragement to log off at the end of the day • Paid time off when needed • Modern cloud development environments and tooling • Occasional travel, approximately 1–2 times per year