Staff Platform Engineer, Platform Development

Location: Denver, CO (Hybrid), San Antonio, TX (Hybrid), Brooklyn, NY or Remote (US Based)

About the Role

As a Staff Platform Engineer, you will play a critical role in owning the technical strategy, architecture, and delivery of the operational platform. Simplesense enables rapid decision-making and data visualization for critical infrastructure through a combination of on-premise and cloud services. The Platform Team has primary responsibility for cloud infrastructure, application hosting, user access and authorization and security tooling among other features. You will oversee the end-to-end success of core platform components—from cloud network architecture to performance and reliability—and partner closely with the Product and Operations teams to remove ambiguity and ensure our platform remains resilient, secure, and ready for the mission.

Work Model: We prioritize candidates in the Denver, CO, San Antonio, TX, and Brooklyn, NY area, but are open to remote talent.

Locals: 2 days/week onsite.

Remote: Quarterly travel for team meetings.

What Success Looks Like:

30 Days: Onboard, audit current platform workflows, and establish relationships with cross-functional Product and Engineering leads.

60 Days: Provide technical contributions to existing projects and develop a full understanding of the existing and planned platform development efforts.

90 Days: Identify opportunities to improve reliability, performance, security and/or development workflows and take a technical leadership role in forming the Platform technical roadmap.

What You’ll Do

• End-to-End Technical Ownership: Serve as a technical owner for the success of platform development projects, from initial concept evaluation and design to final delivery and maintenance. Responsibilities will span new feature development and integration, cloud network architecture updates and implementation of performance and reliability improvements.
• Internal and External Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional Development, Product, and Operations teams, as well as external vendors, to ensure the platform meets stability, security, and scalability requirements on operational timelines.
• Technical Leadership: Work with Engineering and Product leadership to ensure clear, actionable and achievable plans that span the organization.
• System Design & Architecture: Lead planning sessions, create design documents, and make high-level technical decisions for core platform components (e.g., infrastructure-as-code, deployment pipelines, operational reliability, security controls, and disaster recovery planning).
• Force Multiplier & Mentorship: Elevate the entire team by establishing best practices, conducting insightful code reviews, and unblocking teammates who are stuck, prioritizing the team's output over individual coding tasks.
• Technical Contributor: Provide hands-on technical contributions for the most critical or demanding parts of the project, setting the technical pattern and standard for others, with a healthy time allocation of approximately 60% on solving technical problems (coding, design, reviews).
• Team & Process Improvement: Dedicate time (approx. 40%) to planning, cross-team communication, defining scope with Product Owners, breaking down work, and identifying/fixing process issues (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, testing standards for platform components).

What You Bring

Required Qualifications:

Experience: 7–15 years of professional experience building and delivering scalable, secure, and reliable systems and cloud services.

Technical Skill: 

• Deep expertise in AWS systems, resources and best practices (ex: EC2, SSM, databases, scaling strategies, resilient architectures) 
• Experience with AWS Cloudformation infrastructure automation (Terraform or CloudFormation), cloud networking and proficiency in NodeJS or Python.
• AWS cloud networking experience (ex: VPCs, subnets, Route53, transit gateways, network firewalls)
• Experience replatforming or rehosting services and applications within an AWS environment

Domain Knowledge:

• Proven experience at a Staff or Principal level, navigating significant technical ambiguity and leading large-scale, cross-functional technical efforts.

Leadership:

• Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership within a cross-functional team to resolve problems and deliver solutions

Clearance & Eligibility:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Must be able to obtain a DoD NIPR network account and Common Access Card (CAC)
• Must have, or be able to obtain, a Secret Clearance
• Security relevant certification (e.g., CompTIA Security+, Cloud+) or willingness to obtain
• Ability to travel for a full week quarterly for team planning and client Program Management Reviews.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Based in the Denver, CO, San Antonio, TX, or Brooklyn, NY area.
• Professional AWS Certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer).
• Experience with Windows domain environments.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Splunk, Datadog).
• Experience in operational intelligence, industrial technology, or working within DoD/Air Force environments.

Our Culture

At Simplesense, we value high-trust autonomy. We look for people who can navigate ambiguity and are driven by the mission.

Safety & Innovation: You embed security and reliability practices into daily work to drive continuous improvement and mitigate risk.

People & Communication: You invite vigorous debate and offer "kindly blunt" feedback, always maintaining empathy and assuming noble intent.

Integrity & Ethics: You build trust by honoring commitments, acting ethically, and resolving conflict through direct, honest communication.

Strategic Problem Solving: You focus on high-priority issues to create documented, and scalable solutions—avoiding shortcuts.Agility: You move quickly to fix small problems, learn from the past, and pivot transparently when the mission requires it.

Compensation and Benefits

Pay Range: $190k-$260k. per year. Compensation is determined based on experience, skill level, and location. We review ranges regularly to ensure market competitiveness.

Staff Platform Engineer, Connectivity

Location: Denver, CO (Hybrid), San Antonio, TX (Hybrid), Brooklyn, NY or Remote (US Based)

About the Role

As the Staff Platform Engineer, Connectivity, you will serve as the technical anchor for major Connectivity projects that enable secure, resilient access between customer OT environments and Simplesense’s cloud-hybrid services. You will define technical strategy across the Connectivity delivery system, architecture patterns, automation workflows, and operational workflows that allow the team to efficiently onboard and support customer environments. In this role, you will partner across engineering development and operations functions to translate product priorities into a cohesive technical plan, align implementation across teams, and raise the engineering bar for quality, standardization, and maintainability.

Work Model: We prioritize candidates in the Denver, CO, San Antonio, TX, and Brooklyn, NY area, but are open to remote talent.

Locals: 2 days/week onsite

Remote: Quarterly travel for team meetings

What Success Looks Like 

30 Days: Become familiar with existing Connectivity architectures,workflows, and patterns; build relationships across Connectivity, Platform, Data Insights, and field/operations stakeholders.
60 Days: Gain a clear understanding of the Connectivity architecture; identify opportunities for standardization and automation; contribute to the technical direction of a Connectivity project initiative.
90 Days: Act as the technical owner for a Connectivity initiative project; drive architectural decisions across engineering teams; mentor Senior and Engineer-level teammates through reviews, planning, and technical guidance.

What You’ll Do

• End-to-End Technical Ownership: Serve as the technical owner for Connectivity projects, responsible for translating product goals into technical strategy, architecture, execution guidance, and long-term maintainability.
• Architecture & Design Leadership: Lead the design of secure, scalable Connectivity architecture patterns spanning facility-edge systems, Linux-based platforms, network appliances, secure channels, validation mechanisms, and operational handoff requirements.
• Delivery System Standardization: Define and evolve the reusable automation patterns, configuration models, validation routines, and implementation standards that allow Connectivity solutions to be delivered repeatedly and with high confidence to customer environments.
• Network Reliability: Shape the network observability and resilience measures to ensure Connectivity services meet performance, uptime, and supportability expectations.
• Technical Leadership: Collaborate across capability teams and functions to align architecture, sequencing, interfaces, and technical tradeoffs; translate cross-functional constraints into execution plans that multiple engineers and teams can follow.
• Security by Design: Embed Zero-Trust security practices into connectivity solutions. Ensure compliance with critical infrastructure security standards.
• Force Multiplier & Mentor: Raise the team’s overall effectiveness through design reviews, code reviews, coaching, standards-setting, and unblocking work across Engineer and Senior Engineer levels.

What You Bring

Required Qualifications:

• Experience: 7+ years of experience building, designing, and operating infrastructure automation solutions in distributed environments.
• Domain Knowledge: Strong experience designing secure, scalable architectures for systems that span Linux platforms, network infrastructure, automation workflows, and operational support requirements.
• Networking Expertise: Strong expertise in networking fundamentals, Linux-based systems, secure connectivity patterns, infrastructure automation, and observability or validation mechanisms.
• Technical Strategy: Proven ability to operate at a Staff level by defining technical direction, navigating ambiguity, and leading cross-functional initiatives from early problem framing through delivery.
• Infrastructure Automation Skills: Proficiency in scripting and automation for infrastructure. Experience using scripting languages (Python, Bash, etc.) to deploy and manage network resources in a repeatable way.
• Leadership: Demonstrated success mentoring engineers, establishing technical standards, improving team execution, and raising engineering quality beyond direct individual output.

Travel: Ability to travel quarterly for Program Management Reviews and team collaboration.

Clearance Requirements: Must be a U.S. Citizen and able to obtain a DoD NIPR network account and Common Access Card (CAC) Must have, or be able to obtain, a Secret Clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Based in Denver, CO, San Antonio, TX, or Brooklyn, NY area
• Experience in DoD, Air Force, or Federal contractor environments
• Certifications such as CCNP/CCIE, AWS Advanced Networking, or similar
• Experience with OT/ICS environments or critical infrastructure systems
• Familiarity with network automation tools (ex. Ansible, Cisco DevNet, open-source routing tools)

Our Culture

At Simplesense, we value high-trust autonomy. We look for people who can navigate ambiguity and are driven by the mission.

Safety & Innovation: You embed security and reliability practices into daily work to drive continuous improvement and mitigate risk.

People & Communication: You invite vigorous debate and offer "kindly blunt" feedback, always maintaining empathy and assuming noble intent.

Integrity & Ethics: You build trust by honoring commitments, acting ethically, and resolving conflict through direct, honest communication.

Strategic Problem Solving: You focus on high-priority issues to create documented, scalable solutions—avoiding shortcuts.

Agility: You move quickly to fix small problems, learn from the past, and pivot transparently when the mission requires it.

Compensation and Benefits

Pay Range: $190k-$260k per year. Compensation is determined based on experience, skill level, and location. We review ranges regularly to ensure market competitiveness.

About the Role:

As the Technical Program Manager: Platform Deployments you will play a critical role in developing, configuring and deploying our Installation Resilience Platform across multiple Department of Defense installations. You will establish and track to completion project/program deliverables, budgets and schedules; partnering closely with the Strategy, Product, Engineering Development and Operations Capability Teams you will ensure our platform remains resilient, secure, and ready for the mission.

Work Model: We prioritize candidates in the Denver, CO; San Antonio, TX; and Brooklyn, NY areas, but are open to remote talent.

• Locals: 2-4 days/month onsite.
• Remote: Up to 8 x 1-week trips for company, team or customer meetings.

What Success Looks Like:

• 30 Days: Onboard the company and begin to understand our processes
• 60 Days: Understand program scope, workflow, and make suggestions
• 90 Days: Assume responsibility for delivering your program

What You’ll Do:

• Clearly distill customer requirements into actionable plans 
• Work directly with internal and external stakeholders to define projects
• Employ a pragmatic approach to balance deadlines/budgets with capacity 
• Track underway projects to completion, including subcontractor work 
• Identify prioritization and staffing constraints; work with leadership to resolve
• Identify and manage risk for projects and initiatives across a portfolio
• Communicate and report formal program status: schedules, budgets and risks
• Work with the Staff Technical Program Manager on continuous improvement
• Orchestrate program-level ceremonies for cross-team dependency resolution
• Manage customer relationships to ensure two-way understanding
• Represent the company, as required, to customers, partners, and contractors

What You Bring

Required Qualifications:

• Experience: 5+ years with demonstrated success in managing project delivery
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in Agile methodologies and demonstrated use of
• Project Management Tools: Jira, Asana, MS Project, etc.
• Project Communications Tools: Slack, MS TEAMS, etc.
• Project Documentation Tools: Confluence, Google Workspace, etc.  
• Domain Knowledge: Extensive experience managing multiple concurrent interrelated projects, preferably within an enterprise software environment.

Travel: You will be required to travel up to 8 times per year for Deployment Site Visits, Customer Program Management Reviews and/or Company meetings.

• Must be a U.S. Citizen and able to obtain a DoD NIPR network account and Common Access Card (CAC)
• Must have, or be able to obtain, a Secret Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Based in the Denver, CO, San Antonio, TX, and Brooklyn, NY area. 
• Demonstrated translation between traditional waterfall and agile models
• T-shaped person (experience in many things, depth in a handful) with depth in one or more of the following is important:
  • Networking Development
  • Software Development
  • Cybersecurity, outage monitoring, and incident response
  • Network Operations, NOC/SOC day-to-day support and operations
• Project Management of
• Continuous improvement to optimize processes and procedures
• DevSecOps
• Set up, configuration and operation of project management tooling
• Familiarity with small business and startup culture 
• Department of Defense project experience is a bonus

Our Culture

At Simplesense, we value high-trust autonomy. We look for people who can navigate ambiguity and are driven by the mission.

• Safety & Innovation: You embed security and reliability practices into daily work to drive continuous improvement and mitigate risk.
• People & Communication: You invite vigorous debate and offer "kindly blunt" feedback, always maintaining empathy and assuming noble intent.
• Integrity & Ethics: You build trust by honoring commitments, acting ethically, and resolving conflict through direct, honest communication.
• Strategic Problem Solving: You focus on high-priority issues to create documented, and scalable solutions—avoiding shortcuts.
• Agility: You move quickly to fix small problems, learn from the past, and pivot transparently when the mission requires it.

Compensation and Benefits

Pay Range: $130K-$160K per year. Compensation is determined based on experience, skill level, and location. We review ranges regularly to ensure market competitiveness.

Simplesense is looking for a Staff Engineer, Data Insights to join our hybrid, US-based team.

The Staff Data Engineer, Insights own the technical strategy, end-to-end delivery, and foundational architecture for the Insights capability, which converts vast amounts of raw data into actionable, human-readable interfaces, alerts, and decision support tools.

This position will drive the technical direction, process improvement, and mentorship for the initial Insights engineering team.

The ideal candidate is an excellent communicator, attentive, and efficient. They can complete work skillfully and independently. The Staff Engineer must be good at giving and receiving constructive feedback.

This position reports to the Head of Engineering

Responsibilities

As the technical anchor for the Insights capability, your responsibilities will focus on technical excellence and team enablement:

• End-to-End Technical Ownership: Serve as the single technical owner for the success of all Insights projects, from initial design to final delivery and maintenance, ensuring the buck stops with you on all technical matters.
• Cross-Functional Technical Guidance: Translate vague, complex business problems (e.g., "improve operational efficiency") into a technical plan that spans application, platform, and data teams.
• System Design & Architecture: Lead whiteboarding sessions, create design documents, and make high-level technical decisions for all core components of the Insights capability (e.g., Visualization Development, Alerting Logic, User Access Layer).
• Force Multiplier & Mentorship: Elevate the entire team by establishing best practices, conducting insightful code reviews, and unblocking teammates who are stuck, prioritizing the team's output over individual coding tasks.
• Hands-on Development: Write code for the most critical or complex parts of the project, setting the technical pattern and standard for others, with a healthy time allocation of approximately 60% on solving technical problems (coding, design, reviews).
• Team Alignment & Process Improvement: Dedicate time (approx. 40%) to planning, cross-team communication, defining scope with Product Managers, breaking down work, and identifying/fixing process issues (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, testing standards).

Requirements

• Extensive professional experience (7-15 years) defining and delivering scalable, user-facing intelligence systems (dashboards, real-time alerts, reporting tools).
• Proven experience acting as a Staff or Principal-level engineer, responsible for a large-scale, cross-functional technical strategy.
• Deep expertise in an AWS environment, including the selection, configuration, and optimization of compute and data services relevant to Insights (e.g., managed visualization services, notification systems).
• Demonstrated ability to navigate and resolve significant technical ambiguity in an ownership role.
• Ability to work a hybrid schedule, primarily based in the Denver metro area, with an expectation of being in the office at least two or three times weekly, and a full week in the office quarterly for planning.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen and able to obtain a DoD NIPR network account and Common Access Card (CAC)
• Must have, or be able to obtain, a Secret Clearance.

Preferred but Not Necessary

• Professional AWS Certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty).
• Experience in the operational intelligence or industrial technology sectors.

Pay Range: $185,000 – $230,000 per year, depending on your experience, skill, and location.

Our compensation ranges are developed using market benchmarking tools and regularly reviewed to ensure alignment with competitive pay practices and internal equity. In addition to base pay, all employees are eligible for comprehensive benefits.