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Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

Helsing· AI & Engineering
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Washington, DCfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Engineer on the Platform Engineering team responsible for designing, operating, and evolving Helsing's cloud infrastructure, shared services, and developer tooling to support US product and project teams, with a strong emphasis on security, compliance (CMMC Level 2, NIST), and self-service capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • Designing and maintaining cloud infrastructure across a multi-account AWS environment using Terraform and Terraform Enterprise
  • Provisioning and managing EKS clusters, networking, IAM, and other AWS primitives for product and project teams
  • Standing up and operating shared services (GitLab, Artifactory, CI/CD pipelines) and other developer tooling
  • Building automation and self-service tooling that enables product teams to move quickly within secure guardrails
  • Designing and deploying agentic AI workflows to streamline developer activities, infrastructure operations, and platform compliance
  • Hosting and maintaining a mix of open-source, COTS, and internally developed services
  • Supporting MLOps workloads — enabling model training pipelines and managing secure data at scale
  • Building and maintaining observability and monitoring infrastructure for platform and product services
  • Collaborating with product teams to understand their infrastructure needs and translate them into scalable, repeatable platform capabilities
  • Working with engineering teams to ensure infrastructure meets CMMC and ATO requirements

Qualifications

  • Have 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or cloud engineering
  • Have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
  • Have strong experience with AWS, including GovCloud, multi-account architectures, Control Tower, IAM, VPC, EKS, and CloudFormation
  • Are proficient with Terraform and have managed infrastructure at scale across multiple accounts, ideally using Terraform Enterprise or Terraform Cloud
  • Have experience deploying and operating Kubernetes clusters in production
  • Are proficient in Python and Bash, with experience writing automation and infrastructure tooling
  • Are comfortable building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling
  • Understand security fundamentals including FIPS encryption requirements and can build infrastructure that satisfies compliance frameworks like CMMC and NIST
  • Can work across the stack, from cloud networking and IAM policies to Helm charts and container registries
  • U.S. citizenship required

Skills

Required:Cloud infrastructure designAWS (GovCloud, multi-account, Control Tower, IAM, VPC, EKS, CloudFormation)TerraformKubernetesPython and BashCI/CD toolingSecurity and compliance (CMMC/NIST)

Benefits

  • A focus on outcomes, not time-tracking
  • A generous compensation and benefits package (in addition to base salary) that includes, but may not be limited to, insurance coverage (medical and travel), flexible paid time off, paid holidays, and remote and/or hybrid work available depending on position.
Last updated Sep 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Helsing

Helsing | Artificial intelligence to protect our democracies

AI for electronic warfareAI-enabled precision mass and autonomous systemsAutonomous air dominanceMass defence manufacturingRecce strike softwareUnderwater autonomous massliquid-ai-recruiting-target
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