Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

Who we are  

Helsing develops artificial intelligence-enabled capabilities to protect and defend democracies. We build Altra, an AI-powered drone software platform, and HX-2, our autonomous drone. We are growing our US operations, cultivating an ambitious and committed team of mission-driven professionals to apply their skills to solve challenging problems.  

The role  

You will join the Platform Engineering team, which architects, builds, and maintains a developer-focused platform that powers all of Helsing US's product and project teams. You will design and operate cloud infrastructure, deploy and maintain shared services like GitLab, Artifactory, and CI/CD pipelines, and build internal tooling that accelerates software delivery across the organization. You will also enable product teams with their own isolated environments — provisioning cloud accounts, standing up EKS clusters, databases, and the automation to make it all self-service and efficient. Security is foundational to this role: the platform must meet CMMC Level 2 compliance requirements, and you will help ensure that the infrastructure and software supply chain are built to satisfy ATO and NIST security controls.  

The day-to-day  

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  

You should apply if you  

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  

Nice to have  

Experience with Go or other systems programming languages  

Familiarity with ArgoCD and GitOps-based deployment patterns  

Experience with SIEM platforms (e.g., Elastic) and centralized logging architectures  

Experience supporting ML/AI workloads — GPU-backed instances, training pipelines, large dataset management  

Background in defense, intelligence, or other regulated environments requiring ATO  

Experience operating COTS products alongside custom-built internal services  

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