Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

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 architectures   Experience supporting ML/AI workloads — GPU-backed instances, training pipelines, large dataset management   Background in defense, intelligence, or other regulated environments requiring ATO   Experience operating COTS products alongside custom-built internal services   Join Helsing and work with world-leading experts in their fields   Helsing’s work is important. You’ll be directly contributing to the protection of democratic countries while balancing both ethical and geopolitical concerns The work is unique. We operate in a domain that has highly unusual technical requirements and constraints, and where robustness, safety, and ethical considerations are vital. You will face unique Engineering and AI challenges that make a meaningful impact in the world Our work frequently takes us right up to the state of the art in technical innovation, be it reinforcement learning, distributed systems, generative AI, or deployment infrastructure. The defense industry is entering the most exciting phase of the technological development curve. Advances in our field of world are not incremental: Helsing is part of, and often leading, historic le