Platform Engineer

Swamp Club

. Shape platform architecture and design decisions from the start .

Posted 10/30/2026full-timeRemoteMid-LevelSenior💰 $175,000 - $235,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in platform architecture, security models, and compliance automation, with a strong focus on operational excellence and incident response. Proficient in infrastructure as code, CI/CD practices, and cloud platform management.

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Platform Architecture DesignInfrastructure As CodeCI/CD AutomationSOC 2 ComplianceIncident Response Management

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Hard Skills

System ArchitectureSecurity ModelsPerformance ProfilingDependency Trust ManagementCloud MonitoringAutomated TestingCapacity PlanningIncident RecoveryObservabilityContainer Management

Soft Skills

Collaboration Across TeamsProblem-SolvingCommunication

Tools & Technologies

Cloud PlatformsCI/CD ToolsContainersNetworking ToolsOperating Systems

Certifications & Qualifications

SOC 2 Compliance

Industry Keywords

Incident ResponseOperational ExcellenceSecurity ComplianceSoftware Supply-Chain IntegrityTrust Chains

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Shape platform architecture and design decisions from the start
Ensure agent-produced code and structured workflows follow architecture conventions
Identify scaling risks, bottlenecks, and capacity constraints before they affect production
Design security models for trust chains, credential exposure, isolation, and untrusted execution
Improve CI performance, reliability, reporting, and automated performance budgets
Fix operational issues and encode solutions as conventions, review checks, skills, or acceptance tests
Automate SOC 2 compliance evidence and dependency-patching verification
Monitor cloud spending and detect billing anomalies across providers
Own alerting, patching, first response, incident recovery, and postmortem improvements
Maintain a well-understood, documented, performant, and reliable platform
Support Swamp Club services including SSO, organization and authentication management, and event-driven systems

Requirements

What you’ll need

Comfortable with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, containers, networking, operating systems, cloud platforms, and observability
Able to reason about system architecture, ownership, system boundaries, and failure modes
Experience operating production systems, participating in on-call and incident response
Experience profiling systems and investigating compute, memory, disk I/O, networking, and service-boundary bottlenecks
Understanding of software supply-chain integrity, signing, provenance, dependency trust, authentication, authorization, secrets management, and isolation for untrusted code
Ability to use AI effectively in engineering work and understand risks including prompt injection, over-privileged tools, and untrusted context
Ability to collaborate across engineering, product, security, finance, and other teams
Experience with SOC 2 or a similar compliance framework is a plus

Benefits

Comp & perks

Stock Options: 0.15% - 0.25% Fully Diluted
Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), etc.
A non-accrual PTO Plan, aka “unlimited”. We recommend a week off every quarter where you are completely offline
A generous budget to meet your home office and equipment needs
Up to twice a year, you’ll join the team in person for Work Together Week at a location we choose