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Denver, Colorado, United States
Hybrid
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Simplesense builds, deploys, and sustains the Installation Resilience Platform that enables mission operators to rapidly adapt and respond. The Platform protects critical infrastructure from cyber attack while unlocking previously siloed information to monitor, diagnose, and improve response times to incidents. Our adversaries rapidly adopt the latest technology: we help defense users respond in kind.
Simplesense is a non-traditional defense contractor and prime on the Air Force's Installation Resilience Operations Command and Control (IROC) program, which is now expanding to five additional Air Force, Space Force, and Army installations from the one prototype installation, Tyndall Air Force Base.
Our team combines over 100 years of direct mission experience solving hard problems with 50 years technical expertise deploying DevSecOps, cybersecurity, and cloud infrastructure, giving us a deep appreciation for our customers’ mission and end users’ priorities. We build for scale, architecting and prioritizing technical work for long term sustainability.
Location: Denver, CO
As a Staff Platform Engineer, you will play a critical role in owning the technical strategy, architecture, and delivery of the operational platform. Simplesense enables rapid decision-making and data visualization for critical infrastructure through a combination of on-premise and cloud services. The Platform Team has primary responsibility for cloud infrastructure, application hosting, user access and authorization and security tooling among other features. You will oversee the end-to-end success of core platform components—from cloud network architecture to performance and reliability—and partner closely with the Product and Operations teams to remove ambiguity and ensure our platform remains resilient, secure, and ready for the mission.
Work Model: We prioritize candidates in the Denver, CO
Locals: 2-3 days/week onsite.
30 Days: Onboard, audit current platform workflows, and establish relationships with cross-functional Product and Engineering leads.
60 Days: Provide technical contributions to existing projects and develop a full understanding of the existing and planned platform development efforts.
90 Days: Identify opportunities to improve reliability, performance, security and/or development workflows and take a technical leadership role in forming the Platform technical roadmap.
Required Qualifications:
Experience: 7–15 years of professional experience building and delivering scalable, secure, and reliable systems and cloud services.
Technical Skill:
Domain Knowledge:
Leadership:
Clearance & Eligibility:
Preferred Qualifications:
At Simplesense, we value high-trust autonomy. We look for people who can navigate ambiguity and are driven by the mission.
Safety & Innovation: You embed security and reliability practices into daily work to drive continuous improvement and mitigate risk.
People & Communication: You invite vigorous debate and offer "kindly blunt" feedback, always maintaining empathy and assuming noble intent.
Integrity & Ethics: You build trust by honoring commitments, acting ethically, and resolving conflict through direct, honest communication.
Strategic Problem Solving: You focus on high-priority issues to create documented, and scalable solutions—avoiding shortcuts.
Agility: You move quickly to fix small problems, learn from the past, and pivot transparently when the mission requires it.
Pay Range: $190k-$260k. per year. Compensation is determined based on experience, skill level, and location. We review ranges regularly to ensure market competitiveness.
Simplesense is an equal opportunity employer committed to a policy of merit-based employment. All employment decisions—including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, benefits, training, and termination—are made based on individual qualifications, performance, and business needs. We strictly prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind on the basis of protected characteristics as recognized by federal, state, or local law. As a U.S. government contractor, Simplesense complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws, Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act, and the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA). If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete the application or take part in the interview process, please contact People Operations at careers@simplesense.io.