Element451

Senior Platform Engineer

Remote, Canada · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 19 days ago

GitMongoDBSnowflakeAWSCloud PlatformsDockerTerraformCI/CDGitHub ActionsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringCybersecurityNetwork SecurityDetection EngineeringIncident ResponseComplianceCustomer SuccessFirewall

About the role

This is a hands-on senior IC role, and a deliberately broad one: reliability and operations are the core, with CI/CD and delivery, security, infrastructure, and data reliability all real, recurring parts of the work.
The work has range and a fair amount of unpredictability; the people who thrive in it tend to want exactly that.
Be the platform's hands-on security operator - IAM and least-privilege hygiene, secrets management, threat detection and response (WAF, GuardDuty), and vulnerability triage and remediation against SLA.

Responsibilities

This is a rare chance to own reliability, operations, and security at the level where it actually happens: keeping a real production system healthy, fast, and safe, and building the automation that keeps it that way.
You'll keep Element451's platform reliable, secure, and operable - and build the delivery systems that let it scale without scaling the firefighting.
You'll partner closely with our Director of Platform Engineering, who owns the platform strategy; you own a large share of the operational and delivery execution that brings it to life.
We hold a high bar - and we give you the ownership, context, and support to meet it.
Carry production operations day to day - participate in on-call, lead incident response, run blameless post-incident reviews, and drive issues to root cause rather than patching symptoms.
Treat operational toil as engineering work to eliminate - relentlessly automate remediation, sharpen alert quality, and drive down MTTD and MTTR rather than absorbing manual load.
Build the developer-facing automation and paved roads that cut friction for the product engineering team - treating them as the platform's customer and making the reliable, secure path the easy path.
This is the security function in practice today; you partner with the Director of Platform Engineering on strategy and standards, and you're trusted to set the operational bar where none exists yet.
Own the outcome. You're on the hook for the result, not the task - reliability, security, and operability end to end - and you're genuinely unsatisfied with "it mostly works."
Our process is rigorous and designed to be real signal - for you and for us.

Requirements

Operational experience with MongoDB Atlas or a comparable managed database platform - backup and recovery, performance tuning, and monitoring at scale.
Working knowledge of compliance operations - SOC 2 Type II and FERPA - and producing audit evidence (we use Vanta) as a byproduct of good engineering rather than a separate effort.
7+ years across site reliability, operations, delivery, infrastructure, or platform engineering, with a track record of hands-on delivery - including real startup experience where you owned broad, shifting scope without a large team behind you.
A strong SRE foundation - SLI/SLO design, observability stack ownership, and incident response in a production environment with real customer impact.
Strong CI/CD and delivery-engineering chops - building and operating pipelines (GitHub Actions), Docker/ECR workflows, and ECS deployment automation, with progressive delivery and automated rollback - enough to co-own the delivery platform, not just consume it.
Security-operations depth you can own without a security team behind you - IAM governance and least-privilege, secrets management, network security and threat detection (WAF, GuardDuty), and vulnerability triage and remediation. You'll be the org's hands-on security practitioner, so the judgment to set an operational bar - not just follow one - matters here.
Deep, current AWS expertise - ECS/Fargate, Lambda, SQS/SNS, EventBridge, S3/CloudFront, VPC networking, IAM, and Secrets Manager - plus strong Terraform and infrastructure-as-code discipline across multi-environment systems.
Comfort operating as a high-output IC with broad domain ownership and a long execution horizon. Current familiarity with AI-assisted operations - intelligent alerting, anomaly detection, or AI-augmented incident response - is a plus.
Impactful not Immediate - We prioritize and invest in initiatives that will be most impactful.
Progress before Perfection - We are action-oriented people. We are empowered to make decisions and achieve our goals.
Learners before Masters - We are curious and humble people who strive to constantly improve.
Together not Alone - We rally behind each other and pitch in to support the greater whole.

Nice to have

Comfort operating as a high-output IC with broad domain ownership and a long execution horizon.
Current familiarity with AI-assisted operations - intelligent alerting, anomaly detection, or AI-augmented incident response - is a plus.

Compensation

Competitive pay and full benefits - a salary calibrated to the seniority of the role, plus comprehensive medical & dental coverage for you and your family.

Benefits

Competitive pay and full benefits - a salary calibrated to the seniority of the role, plus comprehensive medical & dental coverage for you and your family.
Time to recharge - flexible PTO, paid company holidays, tenure milestones that reward your commitment, and your birthday off.

Company info

Our values describe how we work, and we look for people who already operate this way:
Element451 is building the AI-powered platform reshaping how colleges and universities recruit, enroll, and support their students - and the reliability of that platform is what earns the trust of the institutions that run on it.

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