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Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

Helsing · Washington, DC · On-site

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About Helsing

Backed by Accel, General Catalyst and Lightspeed.

About 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.

What they're looking for

  • 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
More about this role

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.

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.

  • Designing and maintaining...

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