Hiring: Platform Engineer Company: inKind Location: Austin, TX Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 20:56:43 Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Change Management, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, EC2, ECS, EKS, Fargate, IAM, Infrastructure as Code, RDS, Rails, Redis, Terraform, VPC, Valkey About the job Experience: •4+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure in cloud environments Required Skills: •Responsible for helping build, evolve, and operate our cloud infrastructure as the foundation of a growing financial and hospitality technology platform. This role helps ensure that our systems are secure, reliable, observable, and capable of scaling as both traffic and organizational complexity increase. •You'll work closely with application engineers and other members of the platform team, with a focus on the platform itself: compute, networking, data stores, deployment workflows, observability, and operational correctness. In a small but growing team, you'll contribute to how infrastructure is designed, changed, and trusted. •Help build, operate, and evolve our AWS infrastructure across compute, networking, storage, and managed services •Design and maintain infrastructure that supports high availability, predictable performance, and financial correctness •Contribute to platform-level architectural decisions, including service migrations and runtime changes (e.g., Redis → Valkey, EKS → ECS/Fargate) •Help ensure infrastructure choices align with reliability, cost, and operational simplicity—not just trend adoption •Build and maintain deployment pipelines that are safe, repeatable, and observable •Contribute to system reliability through capacity planning, failure modeling, and controlled change management Qualifications: •Infrastructure Owner: You take responsibility for the systems you work on in production and care about their behavior over time •Systems Thinker: You understand how compute, storage, networking, and application behavior interact under real load •Pragmatic Operator: You understand the importance of balancing modernization with stability and operational simplicity •Thoughtful Problem Solver: You can evaluate infrastructure tradeoffs (EKS vs ECS, Redis vs Valkey, EC2 vs Fargate) and contribute to making and implementing the right decisions •Operationally Grounded: You have experience running systems in production, responding to incidents, and learning from failures •Security-Aware: You understand principles such as least privilege, network isolation, and secure defaults •Clear Communicator: You can explain infrastructure decisions, tradeoffs, and risks clearly to other engineers and stakeholders •Applied hands-on capability in AWS core services •Understanding of containerized workloads and orchestration concepts •Applied hands-on capability in infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent) Compensation: •$150,000 - $170,000 / year •Generous PTO and company holiday policy + company paid Short Term Disability Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!