Senior Platform Engineer
The Senior Platform Engineer at inKind is responsible for owning, evolving, and operating our cloud infrastructure as the foundation of a growing financial and hospitality technology platform. This role exists to ensure that our systems are secure, reliable, observable, and capable of scaling as both traffic and organizational complexity increase.
This is a deeply technical, hands-on role with real ownership. You will design, implement, and operate our AWS infrastructure; make forward-looking decisions about how our platform should evolve; and carry those decisions through implementation, migration, and steady-state operation. When the platform changes—new AWS services, runtime upgrades, architecture shifts—you are ahead of it, not reacting to it.
You’ll work closely with application engineers, but your focus is the platform itself: compute, networking, data stores, deployment workflows, observability, and operational correctness. In a small but growing team, this role sets the standard for how infrastructure is designed, changed, and trusted.
Key responsibilities include owning and evolving our AWS infrastructure across compute, networking, storage, and managed services. You will design and maintain infrastructure that supports high availability, predictable performance, and financial correctness. Leading platform-level architectural decisions, including service migrations and runtime changes, is also a critical aspect of this role. Additionally, you will ensure infrastructure choices align with reliability, cost, and operational simplicity—not just trend adoption.
The ideal candidate will have 8+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure in cloud environments. Deep experience with AWS core services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, ElastiCache, ALB/NLB, and CloudWatch is essential. A strong understanding of containerized workloads and orchestration tradeoffs, along with proven experience designing systems for high availability, fault tolerance, and controlled failure, is required. Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation is also necessary.
We offer a competitive salary range of $190,000 to $200,000, depending on experience. Benefits include generous PTO and company holiday policy, company-paid short-term disability, and 100% employer-covered health and dental insurance for direct employees. Vision plans are available at the employee’s additional cost, and we provide child care benefits and generous parental leave.
inKind connects passionate diners with exceptional restaurants across the country. We partner with thousands of restaurants and have millions of users who want to discover great places, dine confidently, and earn meaningful rewards. Through the inKind app, guests earn 20% back every time they dine, turning everyday meals into something more rewarding. From celebrated restaurant groups to beloved neighborhood favorites, inKind helps diners explore the best restaurants in town while supporting the restaurants and chefs who shape how their cities eat.