Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Citian is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to make its production systems reliable and deployments safe and routine. The role owns CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, databases, incident response, and platform tooling for software used by state and local governments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and run CI/CD pipelines that reliably build, test, deploy and roll back our applications, with versioned releases and deployment records
• Stand up on-call, runbooks and a lightweight incident process, and take part in the on-call rotation
• Set up monitoring, error tracking and alerting for applications and scheduled data pipelines, so we find problems, including missed runs, before customers do
• Own infrastructure as code, environments and cloud cost, including bringing hand-built infrastructure into code
• Assess our tooling (CI/CD platform, container orchestration, infrastructure as code, branching and release strategy) and lead changes where they pay off
• Administer PostgreSQL (RDS), Snowflake and S3, including backups, tested restores, access, performance and cost
• Build internal tooling, reusable skills and agents that help engineers build, test, deploy and operate safely
• Set service-level objectives with product and customer success, and report against them
• Help build and operate AWS GovCloud environments for government customers with CJIS requirements
• Set platform standards, build security controls into them with engineering leadership and our SOC 2 program, and mentor engineers on operating what they build

Skills

• You're a senior engineer who makes production reliable and makes shipping safe and routine
• You take an AI-first approach: you multiply the rest of engineering by building tooling, automation, reusable skills and agents, rather than becoming a queue
• You're a self-starter who takes ownership and works well across teams
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field
• 7+ years running production systems, 4+ of them on AWS (IAM, networking, RDS, S3, CloudWatch)
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation or similar)
• Designing and running CI/CD pipelines with reliable deploys and rollback (GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions or similar)
• Containers and orchestration (Docker; Kubernetes/EKS or ECS)
• Database administration in production (performance tuning, backup and restore, migrations)
• Observability: metrics, logs, traces and alerting
• Experience leading incident response and running postmortems
• Operating in a compliance environment (SOC 2, GovRAMP/FedRAMP, CJIS, HIPAA or similar): change control, access reviews, audit evidence
• Strong Python or TypeScript for building tools, and hands-on agentic coding (Claude Code or similar): breaking work into agent-sized tasks, writing specs and tests agents can work against, and reviewing agent output critically
• Clear written communication; you document what you build
• Snowflake administration (roles, warehouses, cost)
• AWS GovCloud, GovRAMP/FedRAMP or CJIS experience
• AWS security services (GuardDuty, Security Hub, Config, CloudTrail)
• Building agent tooling (MCP servers, Claude Code skills or similar)
• Tools we use today (Datadog, Vercel, Auth0, Liquibase)
• Data pipeline orchestration (Airflow/MWAA)
• Leading tooling migrations (for example CI/CD platform, ECS to EKS, or adopting Terraform)

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Generous PTO
• 401(k) company match
• Monthly commuter transportation benefit
• On-site gym
• Free snacks in the office
• High-growth potential and opportunities for advancement within a fast-growing, venture-backed SaaS startup
• Work remotely within the US or hybrid in the Washington, D.C. office

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