Platform Engineer

Role Overview

You'll work directly with the CTO and co-founder to design and build the systems that everything at GovSignals runs on — from serverless runtimes to Kubernetes-based infrastructure. You'll architect, implement, and operate high-performance backend services in TypeScript, deploy them across containerized and edge environments, and build the tooling that lets product engineers ship fast, securely, and with confidence.

What You Will Do

Maintain high compliance environments running on the edge (Cloudflare) and in containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes). Optimize and scale our data platform, including Postgres with local replication and S3 and R2 object storage. Build the core systems — data flows, deployment tooling, and runtime frameworks — that power GovSignals' AI platform.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You've built platforms that other engineers depend on and take pride in systems that just work. You're comfortable operating across layers — from Postgres logical replication to Kubernetes networking to Typescript services — and you make informed tradeoffs between speed and durability.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in backend, platform, or infrastructure engineering roles
• Experience in building and deploying production services (e.g. Typescript or Python)
• Experience scaling Docker and Kubernetes in live environments
• Experience with Postgres and data modeling at scale and overtime
• Experience with observability stacks (e.g. OpenTelemetry)
• Proven ability to move across layers — from backend services to runtime deployments — with speed and precision

Benefits

• Base Salary: $180,000 - $250,000
• Equity: Meaningful stake in a well-funded, fast-growing startup
• Benefits: medical, vision, and dental
• Unlimited PTO
• Direct access to the founding team and end‐to‐end ownership from day one