Job Description
📣 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