Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer Department: Engineering / Product / Design Employment Type: Full Time Location: Remote - USA Compensation: $125,000 - $145,000 / year Description As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will help build and maintain the systems churches rely on every day. You’ll contribute to cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, and platform reliability while supporting both existing systems and new platform initiatives. Working closely with the Platform Engineering Manager and engineering teams, you’ll help build secure, scalable infrastructure that empowers churches to stay connected, engaged, and supported in their ministry. Primary Responsibilities of the Role Cloud Infrastructure & Operations Provision and manage cloud infrastructure across compute, networking, storage, and managed databases Maintain consistency across development, staging, and production environments Plan and execute workload migrations across cloud providers with minimal disruption Identify and implement infrastructure cost optimization opportunities CI/CD & Automation Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines across a multi-repository environment Implement deployment strategies such as blue/green, canary, and rolling deployments Develop automation tooling and scripts to reduce manual effort and improve delivery speed Infrastructure as Code Write and maintain Terraform infrastructure across multi-account, multi-environment systems Establish IaC standards, module reuse patterns, and state management practices Drive infrastructure changes through version-controlled, peer-reviewed workflows Reliability & Incident Response Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident response efforts Maintain observability through dashboards, alerting, logging, and SLO tracking Conduct post-incident reviews and implement long-term remediations Security & Compliance Manage secrets, certificates, and access controls using least-privilege principles Apply security best practices across infrastructure, containers, and CI/CD pipelines Support audit and compliance initiatives through documentation and access reviews Collaboration & Documentation Partner with engineering teams on infrastructure guidance and service design Create architecture documentation, runbooks, and operational guides Help build self-service platform capabilities for engineering teams Qualifications A Successful Candidate Will: Be Tech Savvy by anticipating and adopting innovations in business-building digital and technology applications.  Be a Nimble Learner by actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder. Drive Results by persisting in accomplishing objectives despite obstacles and setbacks Collaborate by building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. Communicates Effectively by developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences. Manages Complexity by making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems. Required Technical Qualifications: 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering Strong AWS experience with EC2, EKS/ECS, VPC, Route 53, IAM, S3, EBS, and CloudWatch Deep Terraform experience across multi-environment configurations Experience with Kubernetes, ECS, Docker, ArgoCD, and Helm in production environments Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions or similar tools Strong observability and monitoring experience (Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, New Relic, etc.) Solid networking fundamentals including DNS, TLS, VPNs, load balancing, and VPC design Preferred Technical Qualifications: Experience as a network engineer Experience with postgres and mysql compatible database administration Experience working with Google/Azure cloud  Kubernetes, AWS or Terraform certification Office Requirements: We are a fully distributed team (100% remote) with travel sometimes required 1-2 times per year. A stable work environment with designated workspace and access to high-speed internet. US-based and legally able to work full time in the US. Sponsorships are not available at this time. Tithely is currently able to employ in the following states: AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, MA, MI, MN, MT, NC, NE, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WV Additional Information Health insurance, dental, vision for your family, 401K, paid time off, sick leave, parental leave, and more. We believe taking care of our team is important and want to be sure you have what you need.  Tithely is an Equal Opportunity Employer Yourgiving, Inc. DBA Tithe.ly (herein, “the Company”) is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race (including hairstyles), color, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, sex, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition, religious creed, physical disability or handicap, mental disability or handicap, age, medical condition (cancer), marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information, arrest record, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. Our management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities and general treatment during employment.