[Remote] Senior Software Engineer - Platform Engineering (Fed Ops)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Abnormal AI is hiring a Senior Software Engineer focused on Cloud Infrastructure to enhance their Federal Platform within the GovCloud environment. The role involves designing core infrastructure and providing mentorship while ensuring compliance and operational efficiency in cloud deployments.
Responsibilities
- Lead the build-out and evolution of Abnormal’s FedRAMP High cloud infrastructure, translating security and compliance requirements into reliable, auditable AWS implementations for the GovCloud environment
- Design and maintain reusable Terraform modules, infrastructure patterns, and platform standards that make Gov changes safer, more repeatable, and easier for FedOps engineers to operate
- Drive sound architectural decisions across compute, networking, and service design, balancing compliance, operational simplicity, and parity with commercial where it delivers the most value
- Partner closely with FedRAMP, compliance, and other engineering teams to reduce environment drift, improve deployment readiness, and close high-impact gaps between Gov and commercial
- Raise the operational bar for GovCloud through better monitoring, alerting, documentation, and incident readiness, with a focus on reducing toil and improving long-term maintainability
- Serve as a technical leader for FedOps by mentoring engineers, guiding implementation quality, and helping the team adopt AI-assisted workflows that speed up delivery and onboarding
Skills
- 7+ years of experience operating public cloud environments, with deep hands-on AWS expertise
- Strong, production-grade Terraform experience. Comfortable building and debugging IaC modules from scratch, not just using existing configurations
- Experience deploying and managing Kubernetes workloads in production
- Experience working in or building toward compliance-constrained environments (FedRAMP, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar)
- Comfort reading and writing Python, Go, or similar scripting languages. You don't need to ship full applications, but should be able to read, adapt, and write infrastructure automation scripts
- Demonstrated AI-forward mindset. Active use of AI in engineering workflows beyond as a coding assistant
- US Citizenship or Permanent Resident status (required for FedRAMP environment access)
- Direct FedRAMP Moderate or High implementation experience
- Experience building developer enablement infrastructure: cloud code integration, local agent setup, or CI/CD pipelines
- Experience using AI/LLM tooling in production engineering contexts
- AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or equivalent)
Benefits
- Bonus or incentive compensation
- Equity
- A comprehensive benefits package
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