Senior Platform Engineer at The Nuclear Company
Washington
$121,000–$165,000from the description
Jun 29, 2026
Washington
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on backend and platform engineering role focused on building and maintaining the integration, data, and CI/CD layers of a nuclear project management software platform. Day-to-day work spans connecting internal and external systems via APIs and data pipelines, owning release tooling, maintaining a shared front-end interface layer, and contributing to data ontology and Model Context Protocol design for AI agent access. Suits an experienced backend or platform engineer comfortable working across cloud infrastructure, integrations, and cross-functional teams.
Senior level · 5+ years · National · Full-time
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What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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No work location is specified in the posting; the CBSA and state fields are left blank. The role does not appear to be advertised as remote.
The degree requirement (Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Software Engineering) is explicitly waived by 'or equivalent production experience', so it is treated as not hard-required.
AWS is listed as 'preferred' within the cloud requirement ('AWS preferred'), but the broader requirement — experience with at least one major cloud — is a hard gate; AWS is named as the preferred option with Azure and GCP as alternatives.
Infrastructure as code is listed as a required skill alongside configuration management; no specific tool (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi) is named.
Event streams and data pipelines are mentioned as integration patterns alongside REST APIs in the required section, but no specific technology (e.g. Kafka, Airflow) is named, so no additional skill entries were created.
Palantir Foundry, Databricks, and Snowflake appear together under Preferred Experience as interchangeable examples of data platform familiarity.
SCADA and OT/IT integration appear under Preferred Experience; no specific SCADA product is named.
The SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role spans backend platform engineering (15-1252) and data integration/pipeline work (15-1243); the primary framing as a production software engineer building CI/CD, APIs, and platform services tips it to 15-1252.
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