Senior Platform Engineer

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New York City, NY, USA
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172K-226K Annually
Senior level
Cybersecurity • Industrial
Industrial code is a critical asset. Treat it like one.
The Role
The Senior Platform Engineer will manage and improve cloud, on-prem, and bare metal environments, oversee SDLC tools, and ensure service reliability. They provide architectural direction and support industrial automation solutions.
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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.

Top Skills

Aks
Ansible
AWS
CloudFormation
Datadog
Eks
Gke
Go
Grafana
Nutanix
Opentelemetry
Packer
Prometheus
Python
Terraform
Typescript
VMware
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The Company
HQ: New York, New York
50 Employees

What We Do

Copia is redefining how the world’s factories, energy systems, and infrastructure are built and maintained. Our Industrial Code Lifecycle Management Platform connects software engineering practices with operational technology, giving manufacturers resiliency with the visibility, control, and confidence they need to innovate safely. We’re engineers, builders, and problem-solvers driven by one mission: Keep industry moving forward. Copia is building the modern engineering platform for industrial automation. Industrial organizations operate critical infrastructure on PLCs, SCADA, and OT networks. These environments power manufacturing, energy, food production, and infrastructure worldwide. Most of them still rely on fragmented tooling and manual workflows that would not be tolerated in any modern software environment. Copia closes that gap. We bring the discipline of modern software engineering to operational technology teams, giving controls engineers and IT security teams the version control, change management, and operational resilience their environments demand. Two concepts define what we do: Industrial Code Lifecycle Management (ICLM) applies structured lifecycle practices to automation code and configuration management. Think DevOps for the plant floor. It enables industrial teams to manage PLC logic, configurations, and automation assets with version control, traceability, and controlled deployment processes. No more tribal knowledge. No more manual backups on USB drives. No more mystery around what changed, when, and who made the call. Operational Technology Disaster Recovery (OTDR) ensures automation systems can be rapidly restored after failures, cyber incidents, or operational disruptions. It covers backup validation, system restoration procedures, and resilience planning for industrial control systems. When ransomware hits or equipment fails, production gets back online in hours, not weeks. Together, ICLM and OTDR form the foundation for secure, resilient industrial automation environments. Copia is the platform that makes both operationally real.

Why Work With Us

At Copia, you’ll work with some of the most advanced industrial and engineering organizations in the world. You’ll help them adopt modern tools that improve how engineering teams collaborate, manage code, and operate critical infrastructure. Copia is growing incredibly quickly as a company, thus all roles are seen as "growth track" roles.

Copia Automation Offices

Hybrid Workspace

Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

Employees are expected in the Copia office a minimum of 2-3 days/week, 10 days/month. Our office is located in NoMad/Flatiron, steps away from Madison Square Park, and minutes away from the 6, R, W, F, M, E, and 1 trains, as well as the PATH.

Typical time on-site: Flexible
HQCopia HQ
Our office is in the charming and accessible neighborhood of NoMad/Flatiron. Enjoy parks, world class dining, shopping, and abundant transit options, just outside our doors!

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