Helsing
Software Engineer, Platform Engineering
Washington, DC
No sponsorshipDetected 35 days ago
GoGitAWSCloud PlatformsTerraformHelmCI/CDMachine LearningSIEM
About the role
- Provisioning and managing EKS clusters, networking, IAM, and other AWS primitives for product and project teams
- Standing up and operating shared services (GitLab, Artifactory, CI/CD pipelines) and other developer tooling
Requirements
- Have 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or cloud engineering
- Have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Have strong experience with AWS, including GovCloud, multi-account architectures, Control Tower, IAM, VPC, EKS, and CloudFormation
Nice to have
- Experience with Go or other systems programming languages
- Familiarity with ArgoCD and GitOps-based deployment patterns
- Experience with SIEM platforms (e.g., Elastic) and centralized logging architectures
- Experience supporting ML/AI workloads - GPU-backed instances, training pipelines, large dataset management
- Background in defense, intelligence, or other regulated environments requiring ATO
- Experience operating COTS products alongside custom-built internal services
- Helsing's work is important.
- You'll be directly contributing to the protection of democratic countries while balancing both ethical and geopolitical concerns
Skills
- Designing and maintaining cloud infrastructure across a multi-account AWS environment using Terraform and Terraform Enterprise
- Can work across the stack, from cloud networking and IAM policies to Helm charts and container registries
Company info
- Helsing develops artificial intelligence-enabled capabilities to protect and defend democracies. We build Altra, an AI-powered drone software platform, and HX-2, our autonomous drone. We are growing our US operations, cultivating an ambitious and committed team of mission-driven professionals to apply their skills to solve challenging problems.
- The role
- You will join the Platform Engineering team, which architects, builds, and maintains a developer-focused platform that powers all of Helsing US's product and project teams. You will design and operate cloud infrastructure, deploy and maintain shared services like GitLab, Artifactory, and CI/CD pipelines, and build internal tooling that accelerates software delivery across the organization. You will also enable product teams with their own isolated environments - provisioning cloud accounts, standing up EKS clusters, databases, and the automation to make it all self-service and efficient. Security is foundational to this role: the platform must meet CMMC Level 2 compliance requirements, and you will help ensure that the infrastructure and software supply chain are built to satisfy ATO and NIST security controls.
- The day-to-day
- Helsing develops artificial intelligence-enabled capabilities to protect and defend democracies.
- We build Altra, an AI-powered drone software platform, and HX-2, our autonomous drone.
- We are growing our US operations, cultivating an ambitious and committed team of mission-driven professionals to apply their skills to solve challenging problems.
Visa & Work Authorization
- citizen eligible to obtain a security clearance
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