Senior/Staff Platform Engineer, Infrastructure & Security at Quilter

Role overview

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Quilter builds AI software that automates printed circuit board placement and routing. Its Platform team develops and operates infrastructure for compute-intensive workloads, the company’s cloud service, and customer-managed deployments. The Senior or Staff Platform Engineer will own systems from design through operation and contribute to the technical direction of a growing team.

The role centers on cloud security, infrastructure upkeep, and automated controls for access, secrets, vulnerability remediation, auditability, and evidence collection. The engineer will turn agreed compliance requirements into technical controls while working with business stakeholders on scope and audit support, and with Platform engineers on reliability, recovery, and efficiency. The work also includes troubleshooting production issues, closing security gaps, and testing that controls and recovery processes function as intended.

Quilter is focused primarily on hiring within the United States, with occasional exceptions to accommodate exceptional talent. The company lists competitive salary and equity, health, dental, and vision insurance, regular team events and offsites approximately four times a year, unlimited paid time off, and paid parental leave.

Role at a glance: Senior or Staff Platform Engineer responsible for secure cloud infrastructure, operational maintenance, and automated compliance controls.

Responsibilities mentioned in the listing

• Build and maintain secure cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure, including network boundaries, machine identities, secrets, least-privilege access, and audit logging.
• Maintain images, dependencies, and infrastructure components; investigate vulnerability findings, prioritize fixes, and deploy updates safely.
• Implement technical compliance controls, validation, access reviews, evidence collection, and remediation tools; support scope and audits for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and prospective FedRAMP work.
• Develop, document, and test backup and recovery procedures with service owners, and address gaps found through exercises or incidents.
• Improve operational readiness through alerts, incident playbooks, communication, production troubleshooting, and follow-up corrective work.
• Help assess infrastructure resource use, cost, capacity constraints, and waste, and make targeted improvements.
• Partner with delivery, runtime, and data platform engineers to incorporate security and operational requirements into reusable systems.

Qualifications stated in the listing

• Experience owning production cloud infrastructure, maintaining it, diagnosing failures, and making changes safely.
• Hands-on experience with security controls such as IAM, secrets management, network restrictions, audit logging, vulnerability remediation, or secure configuration.
• Practical Kubernetes, container, and infrastructure-as-code experience; AWS and Terraform are particularly relevant, and comparable experience is welcome.
• Strong troubleshooting across Linux, networking, cloud services, and application behavior, with sound judgment in choosing appropriately simple solutions.
• Ability to create and maintain tested automation and tools in a language such as Python or Go, and collaborate effectively with software engineers.
• Ability to translate security requirements into technical controls, validate their operation, explain implementation choices, and provide reviewer evidence.
• Interest in taking ownership of recurring operational work and improving it alongside larger engineering projects.
• Clear communication and prioritization skills, including explaining technical risks and tradeoffs, coordinating remediation, and documenting decisions and procedures.