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Platform Engineer
Remote Platform Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJul 3, 2026
Eligible countries2 accepted countries
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
NigeriaUSA
Role overview
Platform Engineer
Requirements and responsibilities
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Why You'll Want to Join
- You will be paid in USD (bi-monthly: every 15th and 30th)
- Paid Time Off in accordance with company policy
- Observance of Holidays per company guidelines
- 100% remote setup so you can work wherever you're most productive
- Work on a product that is actively used and trusted by government agencies
- High ownership, low bureaucracy, and direct access to engineering leadership
- Opportunity to shape infrastructure from the ground up at an early-stage company
Cloud Infrastructure
- Own and manage AWS infrastructure across all environments
- Write and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform
- Ensure environments are reliable, secure, and cost-efficient
- Design and implement infrastructure changes that support product growth
CI/CD and Developer Experience
- Build and maintain deployment pipelines that let engineers ship quickly and safely
- Reduce friction in the development workflow without sacrificing reliability
- Automate repetitive operational tasks and eliminate manual toil
- Support engineers with clear runbooks and infrastructure documentation
Reliability and Security
- Monitor system health, set up alerting, and respond to incidents
- Implement and maintain security best practices across cloud infrastructure
- Own backup, recovery, and disaster preparedness processes
- Proactively identify and address reliability risks before they become incidents
AI-Assisted Operations
- Actively use AI tools to improve infrastructure workflows, automation, and debugging
- Stay current on how AI is changing platform engineering practices and apply it in real work
What You Bring
- Hands-on experience with AWS across core services (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, ECS, VPC, IAM, and similar)
- Strong proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure as code
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Genuine, practical experience using AI tools in your engineering workflow, not just awareness of them
- Prior experience working at a US-based small startup, with a real understanding of what ambiguity and limited resources look like in practice
- Ability to operate independently, prioritize without hand-holding, and make sound decisions under uncertainty
- Clear written and verbal communication with both technical and non-technical teammates
Nice to haves
- Experience with container orchestration (ECS, Kubernetes)
- Familiarity with observability tooling (Datadog, Grafana, CloudWatch)
- Exposure to compliance or security frameworks relevant to government or regulated environments
- Experience supporting a product through early growth stages
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