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Platform Engineer

Job in McLean, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
Listing for: Steampunk
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-02-16
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    Data Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 150000 - 200000 USD Yearly USD 150000.00 200000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Overview

We are seeking Full-Stack Platform Engineer
, with a Tinkerer mindset,who can build high-quality software across the stack while also owning the infrastructure, pipelines, and tooling that accelerate our engineering teams. This role blends
hands-on development
,
cloud architecture
,
ETL pipeline engineering
, and
platform automation
. The ideal candidate is someone who loves solving problems across languages, systems, and environments—and has strong experience in AWS, Terraform, CI/CD (Cloud Bees/Jenkins), and more.

Contributions

This engineer will design, build, and maintain
developer tooling
,
internal services
,
automated workflows
, ETL/ELT pipelines, and more. They will work across multiple languages, cloud-native components, front-end admin tools, and infrastructure-as-code.

This is a hybrid role that blends:

  • Software Engineering
    (API development, tooling, dashboards, automation scripts)
  • Data Engineering / ETL
    (AWS-native ingestion pipelines, transformations, orchestration)
  • Infrastructure & Dev Ops
    (Terraform, CI/CD, environment orchestration)
  • Developer Experience
    (improving speed, reliability, and ease of internal development)

We need someone who is a curious
builder
, a
tinkerer
, and someone capable of jumping into any system (front-end, back-end, infrastructure, or data) and making it better.

Additional contributions:

  • Build and maintain internal full-stack tools, admin interfaces, services, and automation scripts
  • Develop reusable frameworks, libraries, and SDKs that support internal teams
  • Create efficient back-end APIs, microservices, and event-driven components
  • Build, operate, and optimize
    AWS-native ETL pipeline
  • Work with AWS Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, S3, Kinesis, Event Bridge, Dynamo

    DB, RDS, Athena
  • Implement data quality checks, schema validation, monitoring, and alerting
  • Tune pipeline performance and cost efficiency
  • Author and maintain
    Terraform
    modules for AWS-based systems
  • Work with
    Cloud Bees/Jenkins
    to create, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines
  • Implement environment automation, deployment workflows, and development environments
  • Manage logging, monitoring, and distributed system health
  • Build tools that improve local dev, testing, release automation, and operational visibility
  • Reduce friction across engineering teams by improving processes and internal systems
  • Document systems, train others on tooling, and promote engineering best practices
  • Prototype new internal tools and evaluate new technologies
  • Thrive in ambiguous environments and figure things out independently
  • Enjoy tinkering, solving problems end-to-end, and connecting systems together
  • Stay hands-on with a wide variety of technologies
Qualifications

Required:

  • 6+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, platform engineering, or similar hybrid roles
  • B.S. in technical field
  • U.S Citizenship
  • Strong proficiency in at least
    two programming languages
    (Python, Node.js, Go, Java, etc.)
  • Experience developing
    REST APIs, backend services, and automation tools
  • Comfortable with moderate front-end development (React, Vue, Angular, or similar)
  • Experience building, maintaining, and monitoring
    ETL/ELT pipelines in AWS
  • Hands-on expertise with:
    • AWS Glue ETL, Lambda, Step Functions
    • S3(object lifecycle, notifications, best practices)
    • Event Bridge, Kinesis, SNS/SQS
    • RDS/Postgre

      SQL, Dynamo

      DB, Red Shift
    • Apache Airflow, Spark, etc.
  • Understanding of AWS networking, IAM, and security best practices
  • Ability to reason about distributed systems, scalability, and fault tolerance
  • Experience with Docker and container workflow
  • Strong experience with:
    • Cloud Bees/Jenkins
    • Terraform
    • Artifacts, versioning, environment promotion
  • Experience automating deployments, testing pipelines, and environment provisioning
  • Natural tinkerer who enjoys exploring new tools and building prototypes
  • Comfortable working independently and owning projects start-to-finish
  • High curiosity, strong debugging skills, and willingness to dive into unfamiliar systems
  • Collaborative and communicative when working with developers, data engineers, and leadership

Preferred (Nice to have):

  • Experience with serverless architectures
  • Kubernetes/EKS familiarity
  • Experience with observability platforms (Grafana, Cloud Watch, etc)
  • Experience mentoring…
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