SeniorPlatformEngineer

Job Title: Senior Platform Engineer Reports to: Director of Engineering About the role The Senior Platform Engineer at inKind is responsible for owning, evolving, and operating our cloud infrastructure as the foundation of a growing financial and hospitality technology platform. This role exists to ensure that our systems are secure, reliable, observable, and capable of scaling as both traffic and organizational complexity increase. This is a deeply technical, hands-on role with real ownership. You will design, implement, and operate our AWS infrastructure; make forward-looking decisions about how our platform should evolve; and carry those decisions through implementation, migration, and steady-state operation. When the platform changes—new AWS services, runtime upgrades, architecture shifts—you are ahead of it, not reacting to it. You’ll work closely with application engineers, but your focus is the platform itself: compute, networking, data stores, deployment workflows, observability, and operational correctness. In a small but growing team, this role sets the standard for how infrastructure is designed, changed, and trusted. Who you are Infrastructure Owner: You take responsibility for systems in production and feel accountable for their behavior over time Systems Thinker: You understand how compute, storage, networking, and application behavior interact under real load Pragmatic Operator: You know when to modernize, when to migrate, and when stability matters more than novelty Infrastructure Decision-Maker: You can evaluate tradeoffs (EKS vs ECS, Redis vs Valkey, EC2 vs Fargate) and carry those decisions through safely Operationally Grounded: You’ve run systems in production, handled incidents, and learned from failures Security-Aware: You design infrastructure with least privilege, network isolation, and secure defaults Clear Communicator: You explain infrastructure decisions and risk in a way engineers and leadership can understand Role Responsibilities Platf