Platform Engineer
Posted 28 Aug 2026
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- Management level
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- Contract
- Full-time
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Sensor Tower’s digital intelligence platform provides unparalleled insight into market trends, advertising, competitor’s strategies, and consumer/user audience across mobile, web, and gaming. Sensor Tower’s insights are trusted by more than 2,500 enterprises worldwide across tech, retail/commerce, entertainment/media, gaming, consumer packaged goods and finance.
We’re looking for a Platform Engineer to improve the infrastructure, developer tooling, and delivery workflows used by more than 100 engineers.
The role combines infrastructure and software development, with an approximate 65/35 split. You’ll work on cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, observability, CI/CD, and internal tooling. The goal is to make development and releases more reliable, efficient, and straightforward.
What you’ll do
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Improve developer experience and engineering productivity by building tools and workflows that make it easier for engineers to develop, test, and ship software.
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Maintain infrastructure automation with Ansible, Terraform, and Terragrunt.
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Improve the reliability and performance of our CI/CD workflows.
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Find the causes of slow builds, failed pipelines, and flaky tests.
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Develop internal tools, improve test infrastructure, and occasionally work on product features.
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Improve observability across our infrastructure and delivery workflows using OpenTelemetry, ELK.
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Leverage AI to improve engineering workflows by building cloud-based agent tools and helping teams adopt effective practices.
Our tech stack
AWS, Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, Jenkins, Docker, ELK, ClickHouse, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Ruby-on-Rails.
What we’re looking for
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Experience developing and maintaining complex CI/CD workflows.
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Software development experience, such as building internal tools, APIs, backend services, or automation.
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Experience with AWS or another cloud provider.
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Telemetry and monitoring experience (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Kibana).
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Strong Computer Science and System Design fundamentals.
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Willingness to learn and use Ruby and/or Go.
What we’d be particularly excited about
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Experience optimizing CI build times, especially with Jenkins.