Senior AWS Cloud Infrastructure EngineerYou're Opportunity:This is YOUR CHANCE to shape the backbone of a company that's scaling rapidly and innovating boldly. As our Senior AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you'll partner with our Platform & Infrastructure Engineering leadership, founders, and executives to architect and govern our enterprise AWS cloud platform, drive CI/CD and infrastructure automation strategy, and set the technical standards that keep our systems secure, scalable, and reliable across every engineering team. If you thrive in complexity, entrepreneurial problem-solving, and believe in scaling through tech and AI, this is your PLACE.
This is a hybrid role based in Bethesda, MD. Who Develops You: VP Software Engineering and IT Operations
What You're Great At:You are a hands-on cloud platform expert who thinks in systems, not just servers. You've spent years deep in AWS - EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, API Gateway - and you know how to turn that expertise into infrastructure-as-code that other engineers can trust and build on. You're as comfortable standing up a multi-region disaster recovery plan as you are leading a root-cause analysis after a production incident. Security and cost aren't afterthoughts for you; they're built into every architecture decision you make. You mentor generously, communicate clearly with product and engineering leadership, and you've got the scars - and the certifications - to prove you've done this at scale before.
What You'll Do:- Design and maintain enterprise AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC); establish and enforce cloud architecture standards and operational best practices.
- Develop reusable infrastructure modules and deployment patterns; monitor and optimize AWS infrastructure costs (FinOps) without compromising reliability; partner with vendors on large-scale, cost-effective cloud solutions.
- Design, implement, and govern CI/CD pipelines (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and/or Jenkins/GitHub Actions); standardize deployment processes across multiple development teams.
- Design and maintain load-testing environments and automated performance benchmarks; validate auto-scaling for EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, and RDS/Aurora workloads.
- Implement security controls aligned with enterprise standards, including IAM roles/policies, AWS KMS, Secrets Manager, and least-privilege access models.
- Design, configure, and maintain AWS WAF and Shield policies and Amazon API Gateway, including throttling, rate limiting, usage plans, and API governance standards.
- Implement enterprise observability using CloudWatch, X-Ray, and CloudTrail; lead root cause analysis following production incidents.
- Mentor engineers on AWS, DevOps, automation, and cloud-native architecture; lead technical design reviews and serve as subject matter expert for cloud operations and platform reliability.
- Work across departments and with product/engineering teams (Agile/Scrum) to establish software standards, drive automation, and align infrastructure delivery with business priorities.
Salary: $165,000-$170,000/year depending on experience.
We believe people do their best work when they're trusted, supported, and surrounded by others who are equally driven. That's why this role includes a "work from the PLACE you work best" approach - at home, in an office, or on the move. Our competitive benefits include PTO as needed, comprehensive insurance coverage, a 401(k) match, stock option grants, and a stock purchase plan. Every team member is an owner, building the "PLACE" they are proud to call "my company."
