Senior Infrastructure Platform Engineer (Remote)
Denton, TXPlatform Engineer$140k–$220kPosted May 29, 2026
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Senior Infrastructure Platform Engineer (Remote)
Be a Part of our Team!Join a working team that is dedicated to the mission of the work we do!Teaching Strategies is an innovative edtech organization focused on connecting teachers, children, and families. As front runners in the early childhood education market, we build dynamic, top-quality digital products that integrate all of the essential elements of a high-quality solution: curriculum, assessment,professional development, and family engagement. We are building a team of results-oriented individuals who will thrive in a collaborative, work-hard/play-hard culture. We pride ourselves on the impact we have on the early childhood field through supporting teachers who are doing the most important work there is, teaching children to become creative, confident thinkers.Position OverviewWe’re seeking a senior Infrastructure Platform Engineer to help evolve our internal developer platform into an AI-first, intelligent system that makes infrastructure self-service, adaptive, and increasingly autonomous.In this role, you will work closely with platform leadership to implement and extend a vision for abstractingcloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code), while introducing AI-driven workflows, natural language interfaces, and intelligent automation into the developer experience.You’ll be a hands-on technical expert in AWS EKS and platform engineering, building extensible tooling and systems that enable developers to provision, operate, and troubleshoot infrastructure through intuitive, context-aware workflows.This is a high-impact role for a senior engineer who operates with autonomy, contributes to platform direction, and executes at a high level across teams.
Department
Tech Dev
Employment Type
Full Time
Location
Denton, Texas
Workplace type
Fully remote
Specific Roles & Responsibilities:
Contribute to Platform Evolution
Partner with platform leadership to evolve the internal developer platform toward an AI-first model
Translate strategic direction into practical, scalable implementations
Help shape platform capabilities through hands-on engineering and technical input
Build Self-Service Infrastructure
Design and implement self-service infrastructure systems that abstract away cloud complexity
Build APIs, CLIs, and developer-facing tools that enable infrastructure provisioning without requiring deep cloud expertise
Introduce AI-assisted interfaces (CLI, chat, UI) for provisioning, debugging, and operations
Engineer and Scale Kubernetes Platforms (EKS)
Design, build, and operate secure, multi-tenant Amazon EKS clusters
Contribute to platform architecture, scalability, cost optimization, and reliability
Implement policy, networking, and workload isolation best practices
Implement Intelligent Platform Workflows
Build systems that interpret infrastructure signals (logs, metrics, events) and provide actionableinsights
Develop AI-assisted workflows for incident triage, root cause analysis, and runbook generation/execution
Enable human-in-the-loop automation for safe and controlled remediation
Develop Developer Tooling and Experience
Build platform SDKs, CLIs, and service templates that standardize infrastructure consumption
Contribute to AI-powered copilots and assistants that improve developer productivity
Enable natural language interaction with platform services where appropriate
Codify Best Practices
Implement reusable infrastructure patterns and opinionated defaults
Encode security, scalability, and compliance into platform tooling
Extend Infrastructure as Code practices (e.g., OpenTofu) with abstraction and validation layers
Drive Observability and Insight
Implement logging, metrics, and tracing across platform systems
Leverage AI to detect anomalies, summarize system behavior, and surface actionable...