Platform Engineer
Airspace Link
About Airspace Link
Airspace Link is a fast-growing Series B startup shaping the future of drone operations. We provide innovative software solutions that enable safe, scalable, and integrated drone flights in communities nationwide. As an FAA-approved provider of LAANC airspace checks and B4UFLY safety checks, we serve as the air traffic control system for drones, supporting cities, states, and federal agencies while enabling private industry to thrive in the emerging drone economy.
Job Summary
In a highly collaborative distributed agile team environment, you will design, build, and operate the internal platforms, tooling, and shared services that enable Airspace Link’s product engineering teams to deliver software safely, reliably, and at scale.
You will focus on developer experience, system reliability, automation, and scalable infrastructure that supports multiple product teams and mission-critical applications.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Operate and maintain our Azure (AKS) Kubernetes environments and supporting cloud infrastructure
- Manage infrastructure using Terraform and improve infrastructure consistency across environments
- Support day-to-day platform operations, deployments, and troubleshooting
- Partner with developers to assist with releases, debugging environment issues, and improving deployment workflows
- Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
- Improve monitoring, alerting, observability (Better Stack, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana)
- Assist with incident response and participate in an on-call rotation as the team grows
- Help maintain system performance and platform stability as usage scales
Requirements
- B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent relevant experience or education
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience working on production SaaS platforms or distributed systems – DevOps, Cloud Engineering
- Experience operating production systems in a cloud environment (Azure preferred)
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (AKS or similar)
- Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform preferred)
- CI/CD pipeline experience (GitHub Actions or similar)