CareerPlan

Senior/ Staff Platform Engineer

New York CityFull-time$155k2026-07-06 → 2026-11-11

Core

Lead and scale foundational systems powering Fora's travel platform, ensuring reliability, scalability, and developer experience for infrastructure, CI/CD, and security.

Role type

Senior/Staff Platform Engineer

Builds

CI/CD pipelines, cloud architecture, observability systems, and core platform security for Fora's travel agency platform

Domain

Travel technology / Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

infrastructure

Required skills

AWS services (EKS, RDS, ALB/ELB, SQS, CloudWatch, IAM), PostgreSQL administration, message queue systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka, Celery), infrastructure as code (Terraform), container orchestration (Kubernetes), monitoring and observability (Datadog, Prometheus), CI/CD pipeline design, secrets management, cost optimization

Preferred skills

High-traffic B2B2C platforms or marketplace architectures

Technologies

AWS, Terraform, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Celery, Datadog, CloudWatch, Kubernetes

Responsibilities

Optimize database performance and reliability; Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with progressive rollout; Manage message queue infrastructure; Build developer tools and platforms; Implement infrastructure as code; Architect and implement monitoring and observability solutions; Drive security and compliance initiatives; Partner with engineering teams to establish SLOs; Design and maintain container orchestration layer

Seniority

Senior/Staff, hands-on IC with leadership scope