Senior Platform Engineer -AI / Platform Lead

About the role

Hands-on Senior Platform Engineer / Platform Lead to drive platform engineering, developer experience and AI-first engineering workflows in a SaaS environment. AWS mandatory. NY-area company hiring across US East Coast. Potential to grow into formal platform leadership. No sponsorship statement.

Requirements

• 7+ years platform engineering, DevEx, DevOps or related
• Built or improved a shared engineering platform function
• Strong hands-on engineering
• AWS hands-on experience required (VPC, ECS, EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda, CloudWatch)
• CI/CD, release automation, observability
• Pragmatic approach to AI-assisted development

What you'll do

• Drive platform roadmap
• Build developer paved roads and internal tooling
• Measure engineering effectiveness with DORA/DX
• Introduce AI-assisted engineering workflows (Claude Code, MCP)
• Provide technical leadership

Where this was posted

• theladders.com

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