Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

Job Description

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

• Are a U.S. citizen eligible to obtain a security clearance

Nice to have

• Experience with Go or other systems programming languages

• Familiarity with ArgoCD and GitOps-based deployment patterns