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Senior Platform Software Engineer, Infrastructure & Reliability

Join a fast-growing, technology-driven organization transforming the modern travel industry through a powerful digital platform. We are building the next era of travel services by combining innovative software, expert human guidance, and industry-leading partnerships. Our mission is to empower entrepreneurs and advisors with the tools, training, and support needed to build thriving travel businesses.

We are seeking a Senior or Staff-level Platform Engineer to help shape the core infrastructure that powers this high-growth platform. This is an opportunity to work at the foundation of a category-defining travel technology company, ensuring systems remain secure, scalable, and reliable as the business expands globally.

The Opportunity

In this role, you will own critical platform systems that enable engineering teams to move quickly and confidently. You will lead efforts across cloud architecture, CI/CD, observability, security, database reliability, and developer experience. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional partners to ensure the platform can support rapid growth, high traffic demand, and world-class operational excellence.

This position is ideal for an experienced infrastructure leader who enjoys solving complex distributed systems challenges, building internal tools, and scaling both technology and teams.

What You Will Do

• Own and enhance the performance, reliability, and scalability of PostgreSQL systems, including tuning, replication, pooling, and query optimization
• Design and maintain modern CI/CD pipelines that support fast, safe deployments with automated rollback and progressive delivery strategies
• Manage and optimize message queue and background processing systems such as RabbitMQ, Celery, Kafka, or similar technologies
• Create internal developer platforms and tooling that accelerate productivity, including feature flag frameworks, debugging systems, and streamlined development environments
• Implement infrastructure as code practices using Terraform to ensure reproducible, version-controlled, reviewable infrastructure changes
• Architect best-in-class observability solutions using Datadog, CloudWatch, Prometheus, and custom metrics for full system visibility
• Lead platform security initiatives including secrets management, network segmentation, compliance readiness, and cloud security best practices
• Partner with engineering teams to define SLOs, manage error budgets, and ensure services consistently meet reliability expectations
• Build and maintain container orchestration systems, with Kubernetes expertise considered a strong advantage
• Drive cost optimization, capacity planning, and operational efficiency across cloud infrastructure
  
  

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of professional engineering experience, including at least 2 years focused on platform or infrastructure engineering
• Strong hands-on expertise with AWS cloud services such as EKS, RDS, ALB/ELB, SQS, IAM, and CloudWatch
• Deep experience with infrastructure as code, with Terraform strongly preferred
• Proven PostgreSQL administration skills, including performance tuning and connection management
• Experience operating message queue systems and distributed worker architectures at scale
• Strong knowledge of monitoring, alerting, and observability tools in production environments
• Track record implementing advanced deployment strategies such as blue-green, canary releases, and feature flag-based rollouts
• Solid understanding of modern cloud security, compliance practices, and network protection strategies
• Expertise with containerized production systems, including orchestration, networking, and troubleshooting
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain infrastructure concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
  
  

Preferred Background

• Experience supporting high-traffic B2B2C platforms, marketplaces, or large-scale consumer-facing systems
  
  

Compensation & Benefits

This role offers a competitive compensation package, including a base salary range of approximately $155,000 to $225,000 plus equity opportunities. Final compensation will reflect experience and level.

• Unlimited paid time off
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
• Wellness and fitness membership support
• 401(k) with company match
• Commuter benefits
• Life and supplemental insurance options
• Equity participation through stock options
  
  

Work Location

This is a hybrid role based in New York City, with several in-office collaboration days each week and flexibility for remote work on select days.

Equal Opportunity Commitment

We are proud to foster an inclusive and equitable hiring process. Candidates from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, gender, age, religion, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic.

Work Authorization

Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States, as sponsorship is not available for this position.

If you are passionate about building secure, scalable infrastructure and want to shape the future of travel technology, we would love to hear from you.

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About Andiamo

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