Senior Platform Engineer - PropelAuth

About Us

Propel is on a mission to build technology that strengthens the social safety net. We're a passionate team of ~100 Propellers who envision a future where every American has the tools and resources they need to thrive. Over 5 million Americans trust the free, modern Propel app to manage their government benefits, save money, and get updates when their benefits change.

The Role

We’re looking for a self-motivated Senior Platform Engineer to join our Developer Enablement Team within the engineering org at Propel.

This role empowers other engineers by improving the cloud native platforms that enable development and delivery of Propel’s technology. These cloud native platforms impact several products and stacks, including interacting with government programs, surfacing savings opportunities, enrolling users in healthcare plans, internal tooling, architecture, and more! Your focus will be on running fault tolerant applications in Kubernetes and AWS, and solving organization-wide engineering problems.

You will architect new features for our cloud platform, support a wide variety of production applications, address technical debt, and help guide other engineers.

What You Will Do

• Own our fundamental cloud services and tooling: Manage cloud networks, security policies, and low-level cloud services using infrastructure as code tools like Terraform.
• Own our application platform: Administer Kubernetes clusters to meet the needs of the engineering team, exploring new tools and services to improve security and reliability.
• Own our developer experience: Assist engineers with best practices for using and deploying to the platform, and administer CI/CD and internal tooling.

What You Have

• 5+ years experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Systems Engineering.
• Proficiency with at least one high-level programming language (Python, Go, etc.).
• Strong understanding of networking, containers, security, and scalability.
• Strong Kubernetes fundamentals and experience with Helm or other common tools.
• Strong infrastructure as code skills (Terraform).
• Broad experience across many cloud services within a major cloud provider (AWS).
• Experience with observability platforms (Datadog).
• Experience writing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions).
• Experience being part of an on-call rotation to fix urgent issues.

Nice to Haves

• Experience with Kubernetes tools such as Vault, Sealed Secrets, Consul, Prometheus, etc.
• Experience with data platforms such as Snowflake, and building/managing data infrastructure.
• Cybersecurity and/or regulatory compliance experience (HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.).

What We Offer

• A remote-first working environment (Note: Applications are currently accepted from specific states where we have an established entity: California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Washington). Co-working monthly stipend for employees outside of NYC.
• Fair, equitable, and competitive salary range of $170,000 - $240,000, plus equity and excellent benefits.
• 20 Days of PTO
• 4% 401(k) match
• $10k lifetime spend towards Carrot Fertility
• Excellent Medical, Dental, and Vision options