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 deplo