The Senior Platform Engineer will build, monitor, and secure the drone software platform, ensuring resilience and global availability. Responsibilities include designing cloud infrastructure, managing Kubernetes clusters, embedding security frameworks, developing CI/CD pipelines, and providing support for international operations.
About Us.
DroneSense is now part of Versaterm, a global public safety solutions company helping agencies transform how they serve their communities. Together, we are building an ecosystem of intuitive tools designed for public safety agencies! Through purposeful integrations and selective growth, Versaterm is advancing public safety technology to improve workflows, deliver better service, and enable better outcomes. As part of this mission, DroneSense provides a critical drone software platform tailored to the unique needs of public safety. Our comprehensive solution equips First Responders with tools that expand situational awareness, act as a force multiplier, and make drone operations scalable across entire organizations—ultimately leading to more saved lives. Drones are transforming the way First Responders carry out their missions, and DroneSense is driving this evolution within the Versaterm ecosystem.
Our Culture.
Our team is driven by innovation, expertise, and an unwavering commitment to customer success. Our leaders are experienced engineers, pilots, and entrepreneurs. We’re building a diverse, collaborative team where individuals can bring their full selves to work, have fun, and feel a strong sense of belonging. Here, you’ll roll up your sleeves alongside teammates who care deeply about their craft, their communities, and each other. As we continue to grow and expand our impact, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to solutions that enhance community safety and shape the future of public safety technology. If you’re passionate about making a meaningful difference, we’d love to hear from you.
Join our growing team!
DroneSense is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to help us build, monitor and secure our drone software platform for first responders. As more firefighters and first responders rely on DroneSense to save lives, we need your expertise to ensure our systems are resilient, secure, and globally available.
What would I be doing?
- Work alongside our engineering teams ensuring we have the tools needed to build, test, secure and deploy code
- Design, build, and maintain high quality infrastructure on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Maintain Kubernetes clusters, with a strong focus on Rancher-based management
- Embed security and compliance frameworks (SOC2, CJIS, etc.) into platform design and operations
- Monitor and manage systems in AWS, including RDS/DB operations, scaling and backupsImprove observability with monitoring, logging and alerting with tools such as OpenSearch and CloudWatch
- Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines to automate deployments
- Design, build and maintain resilient and scalable server architectures
- Manage authentication and authorization servers
- Scripting - bash, Python, Go, etcCollaborate with developers and QA on workflows and deployments
- Provide on-call support for international operations, ensuring reliability for our global customer base
Would I be a good match for this position?
- You enjoy working closely with developers and also optimizing and automating processes wherever possible. You also keep a strong focus on security and scalability, as well as monitoring and alerting.
- 5+ years of experience building HA infrastructure on cloud hosted systems like AWS
- 3+ years of experience working with and maintaining kubernetes
- 3+ years of experience working with terraform5+ years experience with Linux CLI
- Solid understanding of cloud security principles and compliance frameworks Advanced knowledge of working with Rancher for Kubernetes cluster provisioning
- Solid understanding of and experience working with AWS services (including Lambda, VPC, EC2, RDS, CloudWatch, ALB)
- Proficiency with scripting languages such as Bash or Python
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Gitlab, Github Actions
- Experience automating system configuration and provisioning (Terraform, AWS userdata, Cloudformation, Ansible, etc)
- Experience with nginx
Our Technology
- AWS (Ec2, S3, Lambda, RDS, ECS, Cognito)
- Rancher
- Kubernetes
- Terraform/Tofu
- AWS OpenSearch/Elasticsearch
- OpenTelemetry
- Tailscale
- GitLab
- Linux (amazon linux 2 and Ubuntu)
- Docker
- Mysql, RDS
*DroneSense employs full time US citizens or naturalized citizens from a NATO country, who are current residents in one of the 50 contiguous United States. Though our positions are "remote" we do not work with offshore/near shore individuals or contractors to stay in compliance with our client's requirements.
** A valid LinkedIn profile with photo MUST be included to be considered.
Benefits
-Competitive Base Pay
-Medical, Dental, and Vision, including a medical plan with 100% employee covered premium
-Company paid Life Insurance and Short Term Disability
-Health Savings Account match
-Medical FSA & Dependent Care Account
-401(k) with company match
-Work from home
-Wellness benefits
-Cell phone stipend
-Paid Vacation Time
-Paid Sick Time
-Part 107 Pilot Training & License Paid
Top Skills
AWS
Azure
Bash
Cloudwatch
Docker
GCP
Gitlab
Go
Kubernetes
Linux
MySQL
Opensearch
Python
Rancher
Terraform
DroneSense Austin, Texas, USA Office
2600 Via Fortuna, Austin, TX, United States, 78746
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