Platform Engineer

MyStudio

$100K — $150K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2-5 years of experience managing production infrastructure for software
  • Proficient in Amazon Web Services with a focus on cost management
  • Experience writing infrastructure as code, preferably in Terraform
  • Skilled in building CI/CD pipelines
  • Familiar with Linux and at least one scripting language (Python, Bash, Go)
  • Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools like CloudWatch, Datadog, or Grafana
  • Strong English writing skills for clear documentation

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain deployment pipelines for AWS and Vercel
  • Define infrastructure as code with Terraform
  • Set up monitoring and alerting systems for early issue detection
  • Eliminate unnecessary alerts to streamline on-call responses
  • Manage AWS identity and access roles while supporting audit compliance
  • Track cloud spending and report changes monthly
  • Create documentation and runbooks for engineering practices
  • Participate in on-call rotation with the engineering team

Benefits

  • Full-time role located in Fairfax, Virginia with no remote work option
  • Opportunity to work closely with an engineering team that releases multiple times a week
  • Engagement with a diverse range of clients including martial arts and coding franchises
  • Hands-on experience with AWS, Terraform, and cloud monitoring tools
  • No degree or certification required, focusing on skills and experience instead
Full Job Description
Location: Fairfax, Virginia (On-Site)
Type: Full time
Salary: $100,000 to $150,000. We set your offer within that range by your experience.
Reports to: Director of EngineeringWhat you own

You own the infrastructure that runs MyStudio. Our customers run martial arts studios, children's coding franchises, and similar activity brands. They teach classes seven days a week and need our software to work during every one of them.

You join an engineering team that works in squads and releases several times a week. Your job is to make those releases predictable. You build the pipelines, write the infrastructure code, and set up the monitoring that catches a problem before a studio owner calls support.

What you do
  • Build and maintain the deployment pipelines for our Amazon Web Services and Vercel environments.
  • Define infrastructure as code in Terraform. Keep production, staging, and development consistent with each other.
  • Set up monitoring, alerting, and log collection so that the team sees failures early.
  • Remove alerts that need no action, so that an on-call page always means something.
  • Manage Amazon Web Services identity and access roles. Run access reviews and produce the evidence that our SOC 2 and PCI DSS audits need.
  • Track and reduce our cloud spend. Report the monthly total and what changed it.
  • Write runbooks for the rest of engineering.
  • Share an on-call rotation with the engineers.
What you need
  • You have two to five years running production infrastructure for a software product.
  • You know Amazon Web Services well enough to explain which services drive a monthly bill.
  • You write infrastructure as code, ideally in Terraform.
  • You have built continuous integration and delivery pipelines.
  • You work comfortably on Linux and in one scripting language, such as Python, Bash, or Go.
  • You have used monitoring and log tools, such as Amazon CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, OpenSearch, or Elasticsearch.
  • You write clearly in English, and you document what you build.

We do not require a degree or a certification.

Nice-to-Have

  • Vercel, Next.js, or another frontend hosting platform.
  • SOC 2, PCI DSS, or another audited control framework.
  • Docker, or container orchestration such as Amazon Elastic Container Service.
  • Database operations on Amazon Relational Database Service, including backups, restores, and migrations.
  • Cost reduction work where you can state the amount you saved.
Location and work authorization

This role sits in our Fairfax, Virginia office five days a week. We do not offer a remote or hybrid arrangement for this role.

You must have permanent authorization to work in the United States. MyStudio does not sponsor employment visas for this role.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the team member for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities are subject to change.

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