Senior AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at PLACE

<p><strong>Senior AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer</strong></p> <p><strong>You’re Opportunity:</strong></p> <p>At PLACE, we’re building a category-defining company at the intersection of real estate, technology, business services, and the consumer. As a profitable, hypergrowth startup, on the path to an IPO, our standards are high, and our team is scrappy, and our commitment is to execute the best work of our lives.</p> <p>This is YOUR CHANCE to shape the backbone of a company that’s scaling rapidly and innovating boldly. As our Senior AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll partner with our Platform &amp; Infrastructure Engineering leadership, founders, and executives to architect and govern our enterprise AWS cloud platform, drive CI/CD and infrastructure automation strategy, and set the technical standards that keep our systems secure, scalable, and reliable across every engineering team. If you thrive in complexity, entrepreneurial problem-solving, and believe in scaling through tech and AI, this is your PLACE. <strong>This is a hybrid role based in Bethesda, MD.&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong>Who Develops You: </strong>VP Software Engineering and IT Operations</p> <p><strong>What You’re Great At:</strong></p> <p>You are a hands-on cloud platform expert who thinks in systems, not just servers. You’ve spent years deep in AWS — EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, API Gateway — and you know how to turn that expertise into infrastructure-as-code that other engineers can trust and build on. You’re as comfortable standing up a multi-region disaster recovery plan as you are leading a root-cause analysis after a production incident. Security and cost aren’t afterthoughts for you; they’re built into every architecture decision you make. You mentor generously, communicate clearly with product and engineering leadership, and you’ve got the scars — and the certifications — to prove you’ve done this at scale before.</p> <p><strong>What You’ll Do:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Design and maintain enterprise AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC); establish and enforce cloud architecture standards and operational best practices.</li> <li>Develop reusable infrastructure modules and deployment patterns; monitor and optimize AWS infrastructure costs (FinOps) without compromising reliability; partner with vendors on large-scale, cost-effective cloud solutions.</li> <li>Design, implement, and govern CI/CD pipelines (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and/or Jenkins/GitHub Actions); standardize deployment processes across multiple development teams.</li> <li>Design and maintain load-testing environments and automated performance benchmarks; validate auto-scaling for EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, and RDS/Aurora workloads.</li> <li>Implement security controls aligned with enterprise standards, including IAM roles/policies, AWS KMS, Secrets Manager, and least-privilege access models.</li> <li>Design, configure, and maintain AWS WAF and Shield policies and Amazon API Gateway, including throttling, rate limiting, usage plans, and API governance standards.</li> <li>Implement enterprise observability using CloudWatch, X-Ray, and CloudTrail; lead root cause analysis following production incidents.</li> <li>Mentor engineers on AWS, DevOps, automation, and cloud-native architecture; lead technical design reviews and serve as subject matter expert for cloud operations and platform reliability.</li> <li>Work across departments and with product/engineering teams (Agile/Scrum) to establish software standards, drive automation, and align infrastructure delivery with business priorities.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Salary:</strong> $165,000-$170,000/year depending on experience.</p> <p><strong>Why PLACE:</strong></p> <p>We believe people do their best work when they’re trusted, supported, and surrounded by others who are equally driven. That’s why this role includes a “work from the PLACE you work best” approach – at home, in an office, or on the move. Our competitive benefits include PTO as needed, comprehensive insurance coverage, a 401(k) match, stock option grants, and a stock purchase plan. Every team member is an owner, building the “PLACE” they are proud to call “my company.”</p>