Helsing
Software Engineer, Platform Engineering
Washington, DC · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in infrastructure, platform, or cloud engineering.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Visa sponsorship
- U.S. citizenship required
About the job
Designs and operates Helsing US’s secure developer platform, cloud infrastructure, shared services, and self-service tooling for product teams.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain AWS infrastructure, EKS clusters, shared developer services, CI/CD pipelines, and observability systems.
- Create automation and self-service capabilities, support MLOps workloads, and collaborate with product teams on scalable platform needs.
- Help ensure infrastructure and software supply chains meet CMMC and ATO requirements; design agentic AI workflows for developer, infrastructure, and compliance tasks.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or cloud engineering.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong AWS experience, including GovCloud, multi-account architectures, Control Tower, IAM, VPC, EKS, and CloudFormation; proficiency with Terraform.
- Production Kubernetes experience; proficiency in Python and Bash; familiarity with CI/CD and developer tooling; understanding of FIPS encryption and CMMC/NIST compliance.
Nice to have
- Experience with Go or other systems programming languages, ArgoCD/GitOps, SIEM, ML/AI workloads, or regulated environments requiring ATO.
- Experience operating COTS products alongside custom-built internal services.
Tools
AWS, GovCloud, Control Tower, EKS, CloudFormation, Terraform, Terraform Enterprise, Python
AI focus
Design and deploy agentic AI workflows for developer activities, infrastructure operations, and platform compliance; support MLOps workloads, including model training pipelines and secure data at scale.
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