Senior Platform Engineer

Who you are
As a Copia employee, you’ll solve challenging, unique, and meaningful problems alongside passionate coworkers while we change the way everything gets built.
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you bring experience across Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, and Infrastructure Engineering. You take ownership of technical projects (ideally with prior experience solving similar problems) and provide thought leadership. You’re comfortable making architectural decisions, guiding other engineers, and helping set the technical direction of the product.
Building products for the industrial automation space requires knowledge uncommon to most software engineering jobs. In your day-to-day, you’ll learn about a wide variety of industrial automation topics.

About us
Copia Automation provides best-in-class disaster and recovery technology for industrial automation.
Our product brings modern developer tools to the OT space through our novel Git-based source control for automation professionals, with multiple delivery methods including self-hosted and fully hosted options. We are a well-funded startup with a growing list of happy customers throughout the industrial space.
As a Copia employee, you’ll solve challenging, unique, and meaningful problems alongside passionate coworkers, while we change the way everything gets built.

Why industrial automation?
Manufacturing is powered by industrial automation—computerized systems and robotics running on PLCs. This ecosystem uses a unique graphical language that doesn’t work with typical developer tools like GitLab or GitHub. Instead, automation professionals rely on physical storage devices, incompatible tools, and incomplete solutions. When minutes of downtime can cost tens of thousands of dollars, better development tools are urgently needed.

Engineering at Copia
The Copia engineering team solves problems through collaboration, experimentation, and ownership. We pair on tough issues and look for ways to test our assumptions. You’ll join a team that encourages ownership and values pragmatic solutions, weighing short-term needs and long-term goals.
Finally, we’re optimistic. We celebrate successes, support each other through unexpected challenges, and approach problems with a positive attitude.

What you'll do:

• Take ownership of challenging technical projects across cloud, on-prem, and bare metal environments
• Deploy and test our web application across various cloud providers and self-hosted infrastructures across Linux and Windows Server
• Develop tools that enable an efficient SDLC capable of delivering to cross-platform targets
• Work with modern infrastructure stacks, including Kubernetes, virtualization platforms, and hybrid cloud/on-prem
• Solve scaling and reliability challenges in our cloud offering as we onboard new customers
• Maintain a high bar for service availability and performance while handling customer data with best-in-class security practices
• Apply cloud-native design principles to architect infrastructure supporting real-world industrial workloads
• Provide technical guidance and help define the roadmap with time for deep engineering work and minimal interruptions
• Support our self-hosted customers as they onboard and operate our platform

What you'll need:

• 5+ years of SRE/DevOps/Infrastructure experience
• Experience architecting and operating infrastructure on major cloud providers (AWS or similar)
• Experience with modern container platforms such as EKS, AKS, or GKEExperience with one or more programming/scripting languages including Go, Python, or Typescript
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• Knowledge of cloud security best practices
• Experience monitoring infrastructure using log/monitor/alert suites such as Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana

Nice to haves:

• Experience using Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
• Experience operating secure multi-tenant environments or multi-tenant architectures
• Experience running workloads on bare metal or Talos OSExperience with virtualization platforms such as VMWare or Nutanix
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Packer and AnsibleInterest or experience in manufacturing and hardware innovation (EE or ME)
• Interest or experience in industrial automation and PLCsExperience working in compliant environments including SOC2 or ISO27001

Come join us!
Copia is growing extraordinarily fast! Join a best-in-class start-up with huge amounts of upside and impact. Our headquarters is in New York City.