Distributed Spectrum

Senior Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

New York City. Posted a month ago

The role

You will build and own the infrastructure foundation for inference services, data pipelines, agents, and the UI. This includes designing cloud infrastructure, owning CI/CD, and automating scaling and deployments.

What you will do

  • Design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code.
  • Own CI/CD end to end including build pipelines, artifact management, and rollback strategies.
  • Automate infrastructure scaling, autoscaling for GPU and CPU workloads, and cost controls.
  • Embed security into the platform through secrets management, IAM, and vulnerability scanning.
  • Build observability capabilities including metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting.
  • Run large-scale cloud deployments and handle incident response.
  • Create developer tooling and paved paths for product engineers.

Required qualifications

  • 4+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles supporting production systems at scale.
  • Hands-on DevSecOps experience integrating security scanning, secrets handling, access control, and compliance checks into pipelines.
  • Deep experience with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Buildkite, ArgoCD, Jenkins, etc.) and deployment strategies.
  • Strong experience with AWS (or GCP / Azure) at scale including compute, networking, storage, IAM, managed Kubernetes, and cost management.
  • Expert-level infrastructure-as-code skills with Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation / CDK, or similar.
  • Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm) in production.
  • Solid programming ability in Python, Go, or Bash for automation and tooling.
  • Strong operational instincts regarding failure modes, blast radius, and recover-ability.

Nice to have

  • Experience running GPU workloads and ML infrastructure in the cloud.
  • Experience with compliance frameworks and secure or air-gapped deployments (e.g., FedRAMP, CMMC, IL environments).
  • Familiarity with edge / hybrid deployments where cloud infrastructure coordinates with on-device or on-prem systems.
  • Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog).
  • configuration management or GitOps workflows

Benefits

  • Above-market salary
  • Early Series A Equity
  • Excellent health, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401(k) match - up to 4% of your salary
  • Flexible PTO
  • Daily office lunches in NYC

Before you apply

  • To conform to ITAR, you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from t

About the company

DS creates systems that power the next generation of radio spectrum intelligence. They collect radio data, train neural networks, and run them on small chips.