Staff Platform Engineer

Job Description:

• Design, evolve, and govern internal enterprise platforms that accelerate delivery, deployment safety, and operational reliability
• Drive enterprise observability, automated CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and compliance automation
• Reduce operational toil and standardize environment configurations across vendors and integrated business applications
• Architect, build, and maintain scalable end-to-end automated UI and API test suites using Playwright and TypeScript
• Develop automated data generation tools and synthetic applicant profile generators using Python and REST APIs
• Build front-end tools in React and TypeScript for vendors and government stakeholders to generate test scenarios and monitor pipeline status
• Construct, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines with quality gates and feature-driven promotion practices
• Build reusable engineering patterns, self-service platform capabilities, CLI utilities, and starter kits
• Conduct code reviews and provide 1:1 mentorship
• Serve as a technical liaison to client leads and external vendor teams
• Support cloud infrastructure updates using Terraform
• Embed automated security scanning and navigate continuous compliance in a FedRAMP/Public Trust environment
• Collaborate on systems supporting tens of millions of American students and borrowers

Requirements:

• 10+ years of professional experience developing full-stack applications and tooling using TypeScript and Python
• Practical experience writing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
• Experience designing complex systems interacting with external services, databases, and third-party APIs
• Experience working on cross-functional agile teams
• Experience estimating complex engineering tasks
• Experience communicating technical updates directly to client stakeholders
• Strong diagnostic skills for complex, distributed multi-vendor application failures and microservices
• Prior experience on federal government digital service projects or civic tech programs
• Familiarity with AWS GovCloud environments
• Familiarity with FedRAMP compliance standards
• Familiarity with observability tooling
• Experience implementing synthetic test data generators or complex mock data services for enterprise integrations
• Legal authorization to work in the United States
• Ability to meet other requirements for government contracts
• Work authorization that does not require visa sponsorship now or in the future
• May be subject to a government background check or security clearance
• Must be based in the continental United States

Benefits:

• Healthy work-life balance
• Encouragement to log off at the end of the day
• Paid time off when needed
• Modern cloud development environments and tooling
• Occasional travel, approximately 1–2 times per year