Senior AWS Platform Engineer

Magnet is hiring a Senior AWS Platform Engineer (contract-to-hire).

We're scaling the infrastructure behind a high-throughput data platform and need someone who has run serious production AWS at volume.

The catch: this isn't greenfield. You'll be stabilizing and modernizing a live environment that's already under real load, where every change has to land without taking down a system people depend on.

Day to day, you'll be the person who owns the platform end to end. That means turning manual, drifting infrastructure into clean, reviewable Terraform, and building the kind of repeatable patterns that let the rest of the team ship without fear. You'll dig into the parts of AWS that don't show up in the happy-path tutorials: networking that has to actually scale, compute fleets that need right-sizing, and the cost surprises that come with operating at high volume.

You'll also work shoulder to shoulder with the application engineers. A lot of the wins here come from the seam between infrastructure and code, so we want someone who can read an application's behavior, find the bottleneck, and fix it at the right layer instead of just throwing more compute at the problem.

What you'll own:

→ Infrastructure-as-code with Terraform across a large AWS footprint

→ Compute, networking, and core AWS services at scale

→ Reliability and cost work on a high-volume production platform

→ Partnering with the application team on platform modernization

Must have: deep AWS, production Terraform, comfort owning infra end to end.

$140/hr, 30-40 hrs/week, remote, US EST hours preferred.

Apply: email gavin@magnet.co with a short note and your background.