Denver, CO, San Antonio, TX, or Brooklyn, NY Hybrid Employment $190k-$260k

Simplesense is hiring a Staff Platform Engineer, Connectivity

About the Role

Design, develop, and maintain platform-level systems that enable robust connectivity across services and devices. Focus on scalability, observability, and system resilience.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and implement distributed systems for reliable data transmission
  • Optimize connectivity protocols for performance and fault tolerance
  • Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to define technical roadmaps
  • Diagnose and resolve complex issues in production environments
  • Ensure platform reliability through monitoring and automated testing
  • Contribute to API design and service integration patterns
  • Maintain system documentation and technical specifications
  • Evaluate and integrate new technologies into the platform stack
  • Support secure communication standards across services
  • Drive improvements in latency, throughput, and uptime
  • Participate in code reviews and system design discussions
  • Mentor engineers across teams on platform best practices
  • Operate with observability and logging frameworks
  • Troubleshoot network-level issues in cloud environments
  • Implement scalable solutions for device-to-service communication
  • Work with telemetry pipelines for real-time insights
  • Ensure compliance with data privacy and transfer regulations
  • Coordinate incident response for platform outages
  • Balance technical debt with feature development
  • Promote reusable components across engineering teams

Nice to Have

  • Master’s degree in computer science or related field
  • Experience with edge computing or IoT systems
  • Contributions to open-source networking projects
  • Prior work in platform or infrastructure engineering
  • Knowledge of wireless communication protocols

Compensation

Competitive salary with equity and benefits package

Work Arrangement

Hybrid work model with flexibility for remote and office-based collaboration

Team

Part of a cross-functional engineering team building core platform infrastructure

What We Value

  • Technical excellence paired with practical problem-solving
  • Ownership of system design and long-term maintainability
  • Clear communication across technical and non-technical roles
  • Curiosity and continuous learning in distributed systems

Technology Stack

  • Primary languages: Go, Python, Java
  • Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform
  • Cloud: AWS, GCP
  • Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
  • Messaging: Kafka, gRPC, MQTT

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About company
Simplesense
Simplesense builds, deploys, and sustains the Installation Resilience Platform that enables mission operators to rapidly adapt and respond. The Platform protects critical infrastructure from cyber attack while unlocking previously siloed information to monitor, diagnose, and improve response times to incidents. Our adversaries rapidly adopt the latest technology: we help defense users respond in kind. Simplesense is a non-traditional defense contractor and prime on the Air Force's Installation Resilience Operations Command and Control (IROC) program, which is now expanding to five additional Air Force, Space Force, and Army installations from the one prototype installation, Tyndall Air Force Base. Our team combines over 100 years of direct mission experience solving hard problems with 50 years technical expertise deploying DevSecOps, cybersecurity, and cloud infrastructure, giving us a deep appreciation for our customers’ mission and end users’ priorities. We build for scale, architecting and prioritizing technical work for long term sustainability.
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Category infrastructure
Posted 3 hours ago