Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Motion Recruitment is an innovative SaaS organization addressing complex data privacy and infrastructure challenges. As a Staff Platform Engineer, you will be instrumental in developing a robust platform that handles large data volumes while ensuring reliability, security, and compliance, with the potential to grow into a key technical leadership role.
Responsibilities
- Hands-On Engineering: 75%
- Team Collaboration & Cross-Functional Work: 25%
Skills
- Proven experience architecting and operating production AWS environments, including multi-region deployments, resiliency planning, failover strategies, and disaster recovery considerations
- Strong expertise with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or AWS CDK, coupled with ownership of cloud infrastructure automation and CI/CD platforms
- Hands-on experience supporting large-scale event-driven architectures, distributed systems, and high-throughput workloads with a deep understanding of reliability, replay mechanisms, idempotency, backpressure, and operational scalability
- Applicants must be currently authorized to work in United States on a full-time basis now and in the future
- Experience designing or supporting modern data platforms, lakehouse architectures, or open table formats
- Operational knowledge of analytical, columnar, or OLAP database technologies in production environments
- Advanced experience with observability, monitoring, alerting, operational readiness, and infrastructure-focused incident response practices
Company Overview
Motion Recruitment, a Kelly® Company, delivers IT Talent Solutions for Contract, Direct Hire, Managed Solutions and Statement of Work to all of North America from our 21 delivery centers. It was founded in 1989, and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://motionrecruitment.com.