Join GovSignals as a founding platform engineer owning the data and deployment infrastructure for AI-driven government contracting. You will scale ingestion for 10,000+ data sources, manage secure environments across AWS GovCloud and Cloudflare, and build agentic harnesses that power billions in contract volume. This role directly impacts national security infrastructure.
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Platform Engineer at GovSignals
Join GovSignals as a founding Platform Engineer and build the AI infrastructure powering the future of government contracting. As the only startup authorized for FedRAMP High and IL5 environments, you'll manage data for Fortune 500 primes and mission-critical agencies. This is a rare chance to work directly with a founding team from Palantir and the DIA, scaling high-stakes systems in the historic Brooklyn Navy Yard. If you have 5+ years of experience in high-scale infrastructure and a security-first mindset, help us close the gap in national capability procurement.
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Location
New York, United States
Compensation
$180k-$250k + Equity
Company
GovSignals
Role overview
GovSignals is an AI-powered platform for government contracting that unifies capture, intelligence, proposal development, and compliance workflows. It automates opportunity discovery, RFP matching, compliant proposal generation, and analysis across federal, state, local, education, and defense sectors using proprietary data sources, FedRAMP High authorization, and advanced AI tools.
What you will do
- Build and scale the ingestion and storage infrastructure for 10,000+ government data sources using Postgres logical replication and object storage on S3 and R2.
- Ship a single codebase to diverse environments including commercial SaaS on Cloudflare Workers and self-hosted Kubernetes in AWS GovCloud for restricted networks.
- Develop infrastructure where AI agents are first-class users, including agentic harnesses that support billions in government contract volume and automated remediation loops.
Who this is a fit for
- Has 5+ years of experience in backend or platform engineering with deep expertise in Postgres internals and Kubernetes in production environments.
- Brings a security-first mindset and proven experience taking complex systems through real scale, such as significant migrations or major throughput walls.
- Demonstrates proficiency in TypeScript or Python and a heavy reliance on AI tools to accelerate work within regulated or highly sensitive environments.
Why this role is remarkable
- Join as a founding member of the platform team, working directly with the CTO and co-founders from Palantir and the DIA to own the core infrastructure.
- Work in a high-stakes environment as the only startup managing government data with AI across both FedRAMP High and DoD Impact Level 5 settings.
- Build in the historic Brooklyn Navy Yard for a well-funded startup that has achieved massive regulatory milestones and onboarded household names in under two years.
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