📣 Platform Engineer – Travel SaaS

A fast-scaling SaaS company in the travel tech space is hiring a Platform Engineer to help build and scale their global infrastructure.

This is a high-impact role in a product-led, engineering-driven environment. The company operates a modern, multi-service architecture on AWS and needs someone who can take ownership of platform reliability, CI/CD tooling, and infrastructure as code.

💻 The role:
  • Design, build and maintain secure, scalable AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, etc.)
  • Champion Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or Pulumi
  • Manage containerised deployments with Docker and ECS or Kubernetes
  • Improve and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc.)
  • Collaborate closely with engineering, SRE and security teams
  • Take part in on-call and incident response as part of a “you build it, you run it” culture
🧠 What they’re looking for:
  • 3 years' hands-on experience with AWS
  • Strong background in infrastructure as code
  • Solid understanding of containerisation and orchestration
  • Comfortable with scripting (Python, Go or Bash)
  • Experience with observability tools (Datadog, CloudWatch, etc.)
  • Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills
🎁 Nice-to-haves:
  • Exposure to Windows/.NET, serverless architectures or compliance frameworks (e.g. SOC2)
🌍 Why join:
  • Compensation: $130–150K base equity
  • Culture: Low-ego, high-ownership team with a strong engineering voice
  • Hybrid setup: ~3 days per week in office in Boston
  • Mission: Helping businesses travel smarter — at global scale