Software Engineer, Platform

Amca is building America’s new industrial base. Since the 1990s, our ability to build new aviation and military systems and maintain the ones we already have has eroded. Today, the gap between what the nation needs to produce and what it is capable of producing is the largest it has been in generations.To help close that gap, Amca rapidly develops and manufactures new critical components and subsystems required to build and sustain the planes, military vehicles, and core infrastructure America needs. Today, we operate seven factories nationwide, including our advanced prototyping and testing headquarters in El Segundo, and deliver avionics, hydraulic, and electrical components for platforms such as the F-35, F-16, F/A-18, 737MAX, 787, A320neo, A321, Mk-48, and M1 Abrams.OverviewYou will own the infrastructure, database, and backend services layer across our product suite. You will keep our systems running, deployments smooth, and databases healthy as our applications scale, working directly with the founder on technical direction and architectural decisions.Responsibilities Own the Azure Government environment end-to-endNetworking, compute, CDN, DNS, secrets management, and bastion accessManage cost and right-sizing across cloud resourcesOwn security posture — network segmentation, identity and access management, and encryptionBuild and operate the deployment and observability stackWrite and maintain infrastructure-as-code across dev and prod environmentsBuild and operate CI/CD pipelines from source to productionDrive monitoring, alerting, and observability across the stackOwn the database layerAdminister PostgreSQL: schema evolution, query performance, and connection managementOwn migration strategy across multiple applications sharing a single database instanceImplement and maintain row-level security for multi-tenant data isolationOwn backup strategy, disaster recovery, and point-in-time recoveryManage backend services and infrastructureManage Node.js API services and background workers on containerized infrastructureOwn auth infrastructure, file storage, caching layer, and secrets managementQualificationsDeep PostgreSQL experience — not just writing queries, but understanding execution plans, index selection, vacuum behavior, connection pooling, and row-level security; this is the hardest part of the jobTerraform proficiency — production modules you've written and maintained yourself; comfortable with state management, import/migration, and debugging provider issuesAzure experience — container orchestration, managed databases, virtual networking, and identity services; Azure Government experience is a plusNode.js / TypeScript — comfortable reading and modifying API routes, understanding async patterns, and debugging production issuesCI/CD fluency — automated pipelines, container builds, rolling deployments, and migration automationSecurity awareness — network segmentation, least-privilege access, encryption requirements, and ability to have an informed conversation about CMMC/FedRAMP compliance controlsPlus: familiarity with FedRAMP or CMMC compliance environments, Azure Government (IL4/IL5), or TypeScript-first ORM experienceAnnual Salary Range$130,000 - $180,000 USDThis position requires use of information which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). All applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of ITAR. ITAR defines a US person as: any individual who is granted U.S. citizenship; or. any individual who is granted U.S. permanent residence ("Green Card" holder); or. any individual who is granted status as a "protected person" under 8 U.S.C 1324b(a)(3).The Advanced Manufacturing Company of America prohibits discrimination or harassment based on the following categories: race, color, religion, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age (40 years and over), sexual orientation, veteran and/or military status, protected medical leaves (requesting or approved for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act or the California Family Rights Act), domestic violence victim status, political affiliation, and any other status protected by state or federal law.