Senior Platform Engineer, Infrastructure & AI
About The Position
Blackbird is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to own the platforms and tooling that make our engineering team fast, reliable, and AI-augmented. You'll be responsible for the infrastructure powering APIs that handle payments, loyalty, and blockchain transactions for thousands of restaurants, as well as the developer experience layer that helps our engineers ship with confidence every day. This is a high-leverage role. You'll own our AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability stack, and the emerging AI-assisted development workflows that are becoming core to how we build software. You'll act as both a technical owner and a multiplier: shipping platforms that keep production humming while accelerating the velocity of every engineer on the team.
Requirements
- 5+ years building and operating production systems on AWS
- Strong Terraform proficiency
- Hands-on experience with container orchestration (ECS Fargate or similar), CI/CD design, and deployment automation
- Comfortable in the JVM ecosystem: Spring Boot, Gradle, JVM tuning; Kotlin expertise not required
- Working knowledge of PostgreSQL operations and performance
- Experience with observability tooling (Datadog, CloudWatch, PagerDuty, or equivalent)
- Python or Bash for scripting and automation
- High ownership instincts; this is a small team, scope is fluid, and production will occasionally need your attention
Nice To Haves
- You actively use AI coding agents (Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor) and have opinions about what actually works
- Experience with blockchain infrastructure, web3 systems, or HashiCorp Vault
- Background building developer platforms or internal tooling other engineers rely on daily
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve our AWS infrastructure (Terraform)
- Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines
- Drive observability across the platform, keeping systems performant where it matters most
- Build and expand AI-assisted developer workflows; you'll own this surface area
- Remove friction from shipping: local dev environments, Gradle optimization, build caching, and whatever else is slowing us down
- Push for the right technical investments at the right time; we're moving fast and the landscape keeps changing
Benefits
- stock options
- benefits (including medical, dental, vision, flexible time off, 401(k))
- some not-so-standard, extra-fun perks
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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