Top Platform Engineer Jobs in NYC, NY

Build, operate, and evolve AWS cloud infrastructure supporting a high-growth financial and hospitality technology platform. Responsibilities include infrastructure architecture, deployment pipelines, reliability engineering, incident response, observability, security, governance, capacity planning, migrations, and on-call support. The role partners with application engineers, implements infrastructure changes, and improves operational standards and scalability.

Build, monitor, and scale resilient cloud infrastructure across multi-region and multi-cloud environments. Develop Kubernetes controllers and infrastructure tools using Go, Python, Ruby, and Terraform; maintain Datadog observability; diagnose complex production performance and reliability issues; automate failover and capacity management; and collaborate with engineering teams on architecture and infrastructure improvements.

Designs, implements, and operates scalable infrastructure platforms across VMware, Nutanix, AWS, Azure, VDI, and hybrid environments. Responsibilities include virtualization and desktop architecture, automation, monitoring, Windows and Linux administration, networking, cloud connectivity, datacenter support, security hardening, documentation, vendor management, and independently delivering migrations and modernization projects through production cutover.

Build high-scale internal observability systems covering metrics, logs, traces, cost attribution, chargeback, compliance, and auditing. Partner with backend and platform teams to instrument services, evaluate observability infrastructure, and scale systems for Vercel’s production traffic. The role requires TypeScript, production experience with Go, Rust, or Zig, distributed systems expertise, cloud infrastructure knowledge, and familiarity with observability tooling.

Design, build, and operate Zocdoc's internal developer platform, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling to improve developer productivity, safety, and reliability. Collaborate across teams to deliver platform investments end-to-end, drive adoption, advance AI-assisted development capabilities, mentor engineers, and ensure platform patterns meet security and compliance requirements.

Design and build scalable media platform systems for uploading, processing, managing, and serving image, video, and audio assets. Own complex backend projects, develop reliable distributed systems and REST APIs, integrate cloud services and GenAI technologies, collaborate across engineering teams, mentor teammates, and participate in production on-call rotations.

Designs and operates platform software integrating AppGate services with Linux systems. Responsibilities include Python development, process and service management, systemd, networking, PostgreSQL automation, observability with OpenTelemetry, secure platform tooling, testing, architecture, production troubleshooting, and technical leadership. The role also involves cross-team initiatives, mentoring, documentation, and improving engineering workflows in a distributed remote environment.

Manage and administer the ServiceNow platform, including upgrades, patches, integrations, access controls, performance, disaster recovery, and environment synchronization. Develop workflows, business rules, scripts, and integrations using ServiceNow scripting and JavaScript. Lead maintenance, releases, incident response, root cause analysis, documentation, automation, and continuous improvement. Provide technical mentorship and oversee software engineering teams, projects, and resources.

Designs, implements, and supports secure Azure and GCP DevOps platforms, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes environments, GitOps workflows, and developer self-service capabilities. Owns enterprise tools including JFrog, Argo CD, SonarQube, LaunchDarkly, GitHub, and runners. Leads software supply chain security, vulnerability remediation, compliance, automation, platform modernization, incident response, and L3 support while partnering with cybersecurity teams.

Build the foundational inference cloud platform, including its control plane, API, serving layer, routing, model placement, scheduling, reliability, and observability. The role involves scaling a heterogeneous GPU and ASIC fleet, partnering with data center and model deployment teams, and shaping platform architecture as an early individual contributor at a small startup.

Design and build production-grade backend services and APIs for contact center systems using serverless patterns on AWS. Implement observability, data pipelines, AI-enabled automation, and migration tooling to modernize telephony workflows and improve agent and customer experiences.

Build, deploy, and manage large-scale multi-region PostgreSQL clusters in production. Develop automation, monitoring, observability, and performance-tuning tools; implement high availability, backup, and disaster recovery solutions; optimize indexing and queries; and collaborate with infrastructure and application teams to integrate database tooling and improve platform reliability.

Design, build, and operate distributed platforms, backend services, APIs, and data systems to support quantitative research, large-scale simulations, AI applications, and analytics. Improve performance, reliability, and scalability while collaborating with researchers to productionize research workflows.

Senior Microsoft 365 Platform Engineer to lead design, implementation, governance, and Tier 3/4 support for M365 (Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, Entra ID, Intune, Purview, Power Platform). Drive roadmap, data governance, security/compliance controls, automation, and enterprise adoption while mentoring engineers and partnering with Security, Legal, and business stakeholders.

Design, build, operate, and scale GitLab Orbit backend services in Rust across distributed cloud-native environments. Improve Kubernetes deployments, infrastructure automation, observability, reliability, incident readiness, multi-tenant isolation, data workflows, graph query capabilities, indexing pipelines, cloud storage integrations, and API/MCP surfaces. Own technical designs through rollout while collaborating asynchronously with infrastructure, security, AI, data, delivery, and SRE teams.

Build and operate secure, reliable, scalable platform infrastructure across AWS, PostgreSQL, ECS, CI/CD, and observability systems. Lead security and reliability initiatives, incident response, engineering tooling, and non-functional standards. Develop AI platform capabilities, including LLM development tools, guardrails, and infrastructure for AI-powered product features. Collaborate cross-functionally to understand organizational needs and improve developer productivity.

Build and improve Radar's data infrastructure with a focus on customer feedback and successful implementation. Engage with customers to enhance their experience and deploy new solutions.

Build and maintain an internal self-service developer platform to improve developer productivity, CI/CD, observability, and automation. Create reusable platform services (identity, secrets, deployment orchestration), Infrastructure as Code workflows, and developer tooling while partnering with application teams to remove operational toil and scale platform capabilities.

Own and evolve a secure, cloud-native internal developer platform for a federal health mission. Responsibilities include Terraform and GitOps foundations, multi-tenant Kubernetes on AWS GovCloud, self-service onboarding, MLOps/AIOps, data lakehouse enablement, observability, security automation, compliance artifacts, documentation, and stakeholder partnership. The role requires senior ownership of production platforms and offers opportunities for technical leadership.

Own and improve Snowflake platform operations across development, test, and production environments. Responsibilities include security and access governance, reliability engineering, monitoring, incident response, recovery procedures, consumption and cost optimization, change management, automated testing, and controlled releases. The role partners with Data Engineering, Security, Identity, AWS, and commercial technology teams while documenting processes and building reusable automation.

Leads cross-functional technical projects and owns, scales, and improves platform and business operations systems. Builds production features, evaluates technologies, designs scalable architectures, enhances automation and analytics, collaborates with customers and internal stakeholders, and drives adoption and operational outcomes in a fast-paced SaaS environment.

Supports development of Microsoft Power Platform solutions, including Power Apps applications, Power Automate workflows, Power BI dashboards, and SharePoint integrations. Collaborates with stakeholders to automate business processes, manage and validate data, test and deploy solutions, document functionality, and provide customer support. Works with Microsoft 365, Dataverse, Excel, SQL databases, and Agile project teams.

Volunteer senior developer to design, build, and maintain a cross-platform medical scheduling app (web, iOS, Android). Participate across the full development lifecycle: design, coding, testing, CI, deployments, code reviews, production support, incident management, and platform architecture. Attend weekly standups and commit at least four hours per week.

Lead Compute engineering for a global systems operations platform: architect and build cloud-native, containerized infrastructure; drive Aladdin migration to cloud; own IaC, container orchestration, CI/CD, observability, security and performance; mentor and lead global teams; define architecture and engineering best practices to scale platform services.

Build and own Concourse’s foundational platform infrastructure for government applications, including data ingestion pipelines, legacy-system connectors, AI workflow orchestration, workflow primitives, access controls, and audit trails. Partner with the founder on architecture decisions and enable non-engineers to assemble configurable government solutions. The role requires strong Python or Node.js backend skills, frontend fluency, AI coding-tool experience, U.S. citizenship, and five-day in-person work in Flatiron, NYC.