Software Engineer, Platform Engineering
Helsing
| Company | Helsing |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | Washington |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Not stated |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 16 Jun 2026 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (greenhouse) |
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 deploying agentic AI workflows to streamline developer activities, infrastructure operations, and platform compliance
Hosting and maintaining a mix of open-source, COTS, and internally developed services
Supporting MLOps workloads — enabling model training pipelines and managing secure data at scale
Building and maintaining observability and monitoring infrastructure for platform and product services
Collaborating with product teams to understand their infrastructure needs and translate them into scalable, repeatable platform capabilities
Working with engineering teams to ensure infrastructure meets CMMC and ATO requirements
You should apply if you
Have 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or cloud engineering
Have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
Have strong experience with AWS, including GovCloud, multi-account architectures, Control Tower, IAM, VPC, EKS, and CloudFormation
Are proficient with Terraform and have managed infrastructure at scale across multiple accounts, ideally using Terraform Enterprise or Terraform Cloud
Have experience deploying and operating Kubernetes clusters in production
Are proficient in Python and Bash, with experience writing automation and infrastructure tooling
Are comfortable building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling
Understand security fundamentals including FIPS encryption requirements and can build infrastructure that satisfies compliance frameworks like CMMC and NIST
Can work across the stack, from cloud networking and IAM policies to Helm charts and container registries
Are a U.S. citizen eligible to obtain a security clearance
Nice to have
Experience with Go or other systems programming languages
Familiarity with ArgoCD and GitOps-based deployment patterns
Experience with SIEM platforms (e.g., Elastic) and centralized logging
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