Job description
Burq started with an ambitious mission: to turn the complex process of offering delivery into a simple, turnkey solution. It’s a big mission, and now we want you to join us in making it even bigger. 🚀
We’re proud to be recognized as one of and a , awards that highlight how we’re redefining the future of logistics while empowering our partners to grow.
Backed by leading Silicon Valley investors like Village Global, the fund whose investors include Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Reid Hoffman, and Sara Blakely, we’ve built a world-class team across the globe.
We operate at scale but remain small enough for every person to have a massive impact. There’s a lot of important work ahead, and joining Burq means the opportunity to grow faster than ever while doing the most meaningful work of your career.
Requirements
We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to be the founding member of Burq's Platform team — the function that owns our engineering foundations: infrastructure, security, CI/CD, and reliability.
Right now, our infrastructure runs on AWS with a combination of ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, SQS, and Step Functions. We have a strong contractor advising us, but we need a full-time engineer who can own this domain, execute on a significant infrastructure roadmap, and make every product team faster as a result.
This is a high-leverage, high-ownership role. You will be designing and building the platform that Burq scales on for the next several years.
Infrastructure
Own and execute the AWS account split — separating production, staging, and development into clean isolated environments
Lead the Aurora DB production migration with support from our infrastructure advisor
Manage and evolve our ECS Fargate services, RDS clusters, ElastiCache, SQS queues, and ALB configuration
Own Terraform — infrastructure as code, not click-ops
Security & Access
Harden IAM — developer permission sets, production access controls, least-privilege enforcement
Audit and lock down public S3 buckets
Enable AWS Config and Security Hub across all accounts
Own SOC 2 Type 2 readiness maintenance in partnership with Sprinto
Coordinate external penetration test cadence
CI/CD & Developer Experience
Own and improve our GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines — build times, test reliability, deployment velocity
Build out PR stack environments so product teams can test independently
Drive the local development stack initiative — Docker Compose-based environments that replace shared preprod
Integrate AI-assisted testing into the CI pipeline
Observability & Reliability
Own CloudWatch dashboards spanning ALB, ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, SQS, and target group health
Lead post-incident reviews and ensure every incident produces a runbook entry
Partner with product teams to distribute platform work as a standing sprint allocation — not a separate queue
Requirements
5+ years of engineering experience with 3+ years focused on infrastructure and platform engineering
Deep AWS expertise — ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, SQS, Lambda, account architecture
Terraform proficiency — you write infrastructure as code and know why it matters
Strong CI/CD background — GitHub Actions, deployment pipelines, environment management
Security-minded — you know how to harden systems without creating friction for product engineers
Experience with observability tooling — CloudWatch, Datadog, or equivalen
Benefits
Investing in you 🙏
Fully Remote
Medical, Vision and Dental Insurance
Reimbursement for educational courses
At Burq, we value diversity. We are an equal opportunity employer: we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Who can apply
Eligible countries: United States. Accepted UTC offsets: UTC-10, UTC-9, UTC-8, UTC-7, UTC-6, UTC-5, UTC+14. Review the full description for employer-specific work authorization, residency and schedule requirements.