Top Platform Engineer Jobs in NYC, NY

Leads platform architecture across AWS and Azure, commercial, regulated, and sovereign environments. Owns reference architecture, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, GitOps, provisioning, security integration, and release engineering standards. Drives cross-organizational technical decisions, prototypes complex platform components, partners with product, finance, security, and compliance teams, mentors engineers, and influences architecture adoption through design reviews and RFCs.

Designs and maintains scalable distributed infrastructure across on-premise and public cloud environments. Evaluates emerging technologies and open-source tools, supports incident response and on-call operations, establishes platform engineering standards, and leads cross-functional initiatives from requirements through adoption. The role enables engineering and data science teams to operate research, simulation, and trading workloads efficiently and reliably.

Build testing tools, frameworks, metrics, and standards for Cedar’s engineering teams. Improve test-suite reliability, speed, coverage, service-to-service testing, and CI/CD integration. Establish testing best practices, connect tests to product behavior, and lead quality-improvement projects from investigation through adoption. The role requires strong software development and testing expertise in Python and JavaScript/TypeScript, with experience using modern testing frameworks and measuring test performance and reliability.

Own and improve Dropbox’s Windows endpoint platform, including provisioning, application delivery, patching, compliance, security configuration, troubleshooting, fleet health, and automation. Build code-managed endpoint operations using Intune, FleetDM, osquery, infrastructure-as-code, and GitOps practices. Lead cross-functional improvements, establish reliable deployment workflows, mentor engineers, review code and designs, and document reusable operational practices.

Designs and supports secure, compliant DevOps platforms across Azure and GCP. Owns CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes environments, JFrog services, Argo CD, SonarQube, and LaunchDarkly. Implements software supply chain security, vulnerability management, automation, infrastructure as code, developer self-service, and compliance controls. Provides L3 support, incident response, root cause analysis, documentation, and on-call support for enterprise platform services.

Own the company’s data platform and database ecosystem, including customer data migration pipelines, ingestion, transformation, CI, dry runs, safe reruns, and onboarding-time measurement. Manage database configuration, backups, restores, and the planned MySQL-to-PostgreSQL consolidation. Build reliable, version-controlled systems using SQL, Python, C#, and AI-assisted development practices. The role is remote, reports to the CTO, and requires close collaboration with onboarding and engineering stakeholders.

Build and operate shared cloud-native platforms enabling engineers and AI scientists to develop, deploy, and run software at scale. Responsibilities include architecture, infrastructure automation, containerization, observability, software delivery, production reliability, and developer experience improvements. The role involves leading complex cross-functional initiatives, making high-impact technical decisions, and building secure, resilient systems across the organization.

Designs and operates cloud-native platform services, distributed systems, and large-scale compute, storage, and networking infrastructure supporting research, AI, and data-intensive workloads. Builds APIs, abstractions, automation, and deployment systems to simplify cloud resource management. Improves observability, performance, resiliency, and operational excellence while collaborating with researchers and engineers to deliver scalable production platforms.

Lead reusable platform capabilities, services, APIs, integrations, tooling, and automation that improve developer productivity and engineering workflows. Own technical initiatives from discovery through production delivery, coordinate dependencies across teams, create architectural documentation, guide platform adoption, mentor engineers, and promote reliability, observability, maintainability, and scalable engineering practices.

Lead architecture and implementation of reliability improvements across CrowdStrike's cloud-native platform. Build shared libraries and services, drive observability and SLO practices, perform performance and cost optimization, run resilience engineering and chaos experiments, automate infrastructure-as-code, mentor engineers, and embed with product teams to deliver scalable, highly reliable distributed systems at organizational scale.

Build and maintain backend platform systems that connect digital banking software with core banking systems. Develop reliable, performant APIs and support account and transaction data integrity, real-time transaction alerts, transfers, and payment settlement workflows. The role requires collaboration on complex financial integrations and may involve Python, Django, infrastructure automation, and Linux administration.

Build and operate infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, automation, package and patch pipelines for Fluidstack’s security platform. Automate Windows fleets, remediation, releases, and observability while improving on-call sustainability. Develop and review production code, create tools for non-engineering users, and help scale security infrastructure across multiple campuses.

Own and build the backend and infrastructure platform for a high-volume, data-intensive system. Design real-time ingestion services, scalable data models, query layers, and database performance improvements. Set infrastructure priorities and the technical roadmap while partnering with product engineers and leadership. The role requires strong backend engineering, systems architecture, database, and scaling expertise, with on-site work five days per week in New York.

Build and maintain scalable platform tools, infrastructure, and automation that enable reliable software delivery across engineering teams. Develop C#/.NET solutions, manage Kubernetes environments, implement Helm and GitOps deployment workflows, and support distributed microservices. Troubleshoot complex systems, improve observability and performance, conduct code reviews, collaborate with stakeholders, and mentor engineers while advancing deployment reliability and operational excellence.

Design, operate, and improve highly scalable hybrid multi-cloud Kubernetes platforms supporting business-critical systems. Responsibilities include optimizing reliability, managing large-scale infrastructure, integrating open-source technologies, guiding Kubernetes platform evolution, and mentoring engineers. The role requires expertise with Kubernetes clusters containing thousands of nodes, observability tools, Golang, Linux, AWS, GCP, OCI, custom data centers, and on-call operations. Candidates must be eligible for CJIS clearance and periodically complete government-required background and fingerprint checks.

Own and scale the backend platform for Hapiko’s voice-activated sticker printer. Responsibilities include API and queue ownership, real-time device connectivity, autoscaling, observability, cost instrumentation, release engineering, database migrations, security collaboration, and on-call support. The role requires deep Python and PostgreSQL expertise, Elixir experience or willingness to learn, production infrastructure ownership, and experience scaling queue-driven or real-time systems.

Build and operate foundational platform services, libraries, and tooling for large-scale distributed systems. Lead reliability, scalability, observability, performance, resilience, cost optimization, and infrastructure-as-code initiatives across product teams. Define SLOs and error budgets, resolve complex incidents, improve architecture, mentor engineers, and influence organization-wide technical decisions. The role involves hands-on backend engineering, production coding, multi-cloud platforms, and automation to eliminate operational toil.

Build a greenfield, low-latency algorithmic execution platform in C++. Responsibilities include developing FIX gateways, exchange market data feed handlers, venue connectivity, pre-trade risk controls, platform infrastructure, audit logging, and algorithmic strategy migration. The role requires optimizing critical paths for microsecond-level performance while integrating U.S. exchanges and dark venues. Future work includes multi-asset execution, research and backtesting, and international market expansion.

Lead the architecture, security, and operation of Maestro’s multi-tenant AI platform on private GKE. Build Kubernetes operators, isolated per-user runtimes, identity and credential systems, service-mesh security, Terraform infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, audit pipelines, fleet operations, and human approval guardrails. Partner on safe agent integrations, establish platform and security standards, mentor engineers, and guide infrastructure strategy as the system scales.

Build and operate Turing’s enterprise AI platform, including platform services, model gateways, multi-tenant infrastructure, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, deployment tooling, observability, and FinOps telemetry. The role supports reliable deployments across customer cloud accounts, dedicated instances, and sovereign environments. Responsibilities include production software engineering, on-call operations, incident response, secure platform design, and operational accountability.

Build and operate reusable AWS and GovCloud platform infrastructure for federal programs. Responsibilities include designing cloud account, networking, and identity patterns; authoring Terraform modules; operating Kubernetes/EKS; building secure CI/CD pipelines; implementing observability; managing cloud costs; supporting customer programs; contributing to ATO discussions; and participating in on-call coverage.

Lead cross-team platform engineering programs spanning AWS, GovCloud, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, security, compliance, resilience, and developer tooling. Own architecture decisions, design automated controls and disaster recovery strategies, lead incident escalation, reduce platform complexity, establish engineering standards, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, data, AI/ML, security, and federal program teams.

Architect and operate Affirm’s large-scale Amazon EKS compute platform, including cluster lifecycle, node management, autoscaling, shared components, infrastructure automation, workload safety policies, observability, cost and capacity optimization, and self-service workflows. The role drives technical strategy, mentors engineers, partners cross-functionally, and participates in on-call incident response.

Design, build, operate, and support backend services powering an enterprise AI platform. Responsibilities include developing APIs, gateways, orchestration, tenancy, entitlements, metering, integrations, governed data access, and distributed platform capabilities. The engineer owns services across design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, reliability, and support while addressing failure modes, consistency, idempotency, and scalability.

Owns enterprise Azure DevOps administration, governance, security, integrations, and continuous improvement. Develops CI/CD automation, Terraform infrastructure, and scalable AWS platforms; supports Kubernetes, service mesh, observability, reliability, and developer self-service. Administers repositories, pipelines, permissions, boards, and integrations while enforcing secure DevOps practices. Partners with engineering, security, infrastructure, compliance, architecture, and business stakeholders; leads governance forums, troubleshoots platform issues, and documents standards and operating procedures.