Senior Platform Engineer

🔥 21 hours ago

🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $190k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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inKind

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

🍽️ Food & Beverage

📣 Marketing

🏨 Hospitality

Food & Beverage • Marketing • Hospitality

inKind is a company that provides a dining rewards and payment platform, offering a seamless experience for users who want to earn rewards at thousands of restaurants. Users can pay their restaurant bills through the inKind app and earn 20% back as dining perks. The platform is available on both iOS and Android, and offers access to exclusive offers and events for its users. inKind aims to enhance the dining experience by integrating payment and rewards into a single app.

📋 Description

• Own and evolve AWS infrastructure across compute, networking, storage, and managed services • Design and maintain infrastructure supporting high availability, predictable performance, and financial correctness • Lead platform architectural decisions, including service migrations and runtime changes such as Redis to Valkey and EKS to ECS/Fargate • Align infrastructure choices with reliability, cost, and operational simplicity • Design and maintain safe, repeatable, observable deployment pipelines • Own reliability through capacity planning, failure modeling, and controlled change management • Lead incident response and root-cause analysis for infrastructure failures • Participate in on-call rotations and improve operational ergonomics • Build and maintain observability using metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting • Secure AWS resources, IAM policies, secrets management, and network boundaries • Identify and address infrastructure risks related to scale, cost, and security • Partner with application engineers on platform constraints and capabilities • Drive infrastructure changes through hands-on implementation • Establish infrastructure, deployment, and operations standards as the team grows • Mentor platform engineers and improve organizational operational maturity • Report to the Director of Engineering

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure in cloud environments • Deep experience with AWS core services, including EC2, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, ElastiCache, ALB/NLB, and CloudWatch • Strong understanding of containerized workloads and orchestration tradeoffs • Proven experience designing systems for high availability, fault tolerance, and controlled failure • Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code, such as Terraform or CloudFormation • Demonstrated ability to plan and execute infrastructure migrations safely • Experience debugging production incidents involving networking, scaling, or service degradation • Preferred: Experience operating infrastructure for financial systems or other high-reliability domains • Preferred: Firsthand experience scaling infrastructure through rapid growth • Preferred: Strong opinions about observability and operational hygiene informed by past failures • Preferred: Experience simplifying, retiring, or rearchitecting over-engineered infrastructure • Preferred: Comfort working closely with a Rails-based application stack while remaining tool-agnostic

🏖️ Benefits

• Generous PTO and company holiday policy • Company-paid Short Term Disability • 100% employer-covered health and dental insurance for direct employees on the set plan • Higher-tier healthcare coverage available at the employee’s additional cost • Dependent healthcare coverage available at the employee’s cost • Vision plan available at the employee’s additional cost • Child Care Benefits • Generous parental leave