Senior Platform Engineer
Recorded Future · Boston, MA
$129,000–$193,500from the description
Jul 1, 2026
Boston, MA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior platform engineering role focused on building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, and cloud infrastructure on AWS. Day-to-day work involves managing infrastructure as code with Terraform, supporting developer toolsets, and improving SDLC processes in collaboration with engineering teams. Best suited to someone with hands-on Kubernetes, ArgoCD, GitHub, and AWS experience who can also write automation in Golang or Python.
Mid level · 3+ years · National · Full-time
Advertised as Senior, but the requirements read as Mid.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The role is titled 'Senior' but gates on only 3+ years of experience in platform engineering — a threshold more consistent with a Mid-level engineer. Seniority is assessed as Mid accordingly.
Location is stated as 'across all US locations' with no single city specified; no CBSA or state has been set. Remote status is unspecified in the posting — the salary range note references 'state, work location' suggesting in-office or hybrid, so remote is marked false.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role writes and ships infrastructure-as-code and automation (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but also has a meaningful operational/cluster-management component (15-1244). The primary emphasis on building pipelines, IaC, and developer tooling tips it to 15-1252.
Golang and Python are listed together as 'Proficiency in Golang or Python' under the required qualifications — treated as a single interchangeable requirement with Python as the alternative.
ArgoCD is listed alongside Kubernetes in the required section ('Proven knowledge of Kubernetes… and experience with ArgoCD') and is treated as a hard gate.
GitHub Actions runners appear under Preferred Qualifications ('Experience with Github runners and other CI/CD tools') — marked preferred.
Java appears only under Preferred Qualifications in the context of CI/CD familiarity — marked preferred.
A Bachelor's degree is listed but explicitly paired with 'or equivalent experience,' so the degree requirement is set to None.
AWS certification and Kubernetes certification are mentioned as a plus under Preferred Qualifications — not extracted as skills since they are credentials, not technologies.
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