Software Engineer, Platform Engineering
Helsing · Washington, DC
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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 deplo