Platform Engineer Jobs in Massachusetts
Platform engineer jobs in Massachusetts are among the most active in the country, concentrated in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and site reliability engineering across the state's deep technology, financial services, biotech, and defense sectors, with openings at every level from junior to staff and principal. The heaviest hiring is in Greater Boston, Cambridge, and the Route 128 corridor, where employers like Raytheon Technologies, Fidelity Investments, and HubSpot have long maintained large engineering organizations. Kubernetes platform management, CI/CD pipeline ownership, and internal developer platform buildout are the most consistently requested specialties. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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GNotified, Your Story Begins Here
We are Notified , the only technology partner dedicated to both investor relations and public relations professionals. We help our clients control and amplify the corporate narrative. Our fully integrated PR and IR platforms streamline every step from press release distribution, media targeting, and analytics to IR websites, earnings and investor events, and regulatory filings. Powered by GlobeNewswire, one of the largest and most trusted newswire distribution networks for over 30 years, we empower communicators to inform a better world.
Notified is an affiliate of Equiniti Group Limited (EQ) , a fintech that connects the future of capital, communications, and governance — building trust and confidence in every market we serve.
Summary
Notified is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Web Reliability Team and serve as a technical leader for our Akamai ecosystem. This is a senior, hands-on role focused on CDN/WAF management, web traffic analysis, bot mitigation, DDoS protection, and traffic optimization . The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of web traffic and security concepts.
You will partner with application, infrastructure, security, and DevOps teams to deliver secure, scalable, highly available edge services that improve application performance and strengthen organizational resiliency.
Location
This role will be based in our Woburn, MA office, located at 130 New Boston Street. This role offers in person collaboration and flexibility to work from home.
What Part You Will Play in Our Growth
- Design, implement, and manage enterprise-scale Akamai CDN, WAF, DNS, Edge Security, and TLS/Certificate Management solutions.
- Serve as the primary technical expert for Akamai platform administration , including onboarding applications, policy management, traffic optimization, security configuration, and troubleshooting.
- Configure, maintain, and optimize Akamai WAF policies , bot protection, rate controls, custom rules, and edge security controls.
- Manage large-scale CDN delivery configurations, caching strategies, traffic routing, performance optimization, and high-availability architectures.
- Administer and automate certificate lifecycle management, including provisioning, rotation, validation, renewals, and compliance requirements.
- Develop Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform to automate Akamai configurations and infrastructure deployments.
- Build integrations and automation using Akamai APIs and other platform APIs to reduce manual operational activities.
- Design and implement self-service capabilities that enable development teams to provision and manage edge platform resources securely and efficiently.
- Develop custom tooling, services, and automation frameworks using modern programming languages .
- Establish and maintain SRE practices including observability, monitoring, alerting, incident management, service-level objectives (SLOs), and error budgets.
- Collaborate with security teams to implement best practices for application protection, vulnerability mitigation, and edge security governance.
- Perform performance analysis, capacity planning, root cause analysis, and continuous reliability improvements for internet-facing applications.
- Participate in operational support, incident response, post-incident reviews, and reliability engineering initiatives. Provide technical leadership and guidance for application onboarding, architecture reviews, and platform modernization efforts.
Required Knowledge and Skills
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field required.
Experience
- 5+ years of relevant experience in CDN, web infrastructure, SRE, network/security engineering, or web security.
- Strong understanding of HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, TLS, TCP/IP, caching, CDN architecture, and reverse proxies.
- Hands-on experience with CDN, WAF, DDoS protection, and web security technologies.
- Experience identifying and mitigating malicious bots, scrapers, scanners, abusive traffic, and DDoS attacks.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills in large-scale production environments.
- Experience automating infrastructure and platform management using Terraform and APIs.
- Strong scripting and software development skills using one or more languages.
- Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting platforms.
- Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills for complex distributed systems.
- Experience working with Git-based source control and modern software development practices.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Proven ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across engineering, security, and application teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Akamai certifications and advanced experience managing enterprise-scale Akamai deployments.
- Experience with Akamai Application & API Protector, Bot Manager, EdgeWorkers, Edge DNS, Global Traffic Management (GTM), and API Security .
- Experience managing thousands of properties, domains, certificates, or WAF policies across multiple business units.
- Expertise in certificate automation and large-scale TLS management.
- Experience building developer self-service portals and automation platforms.
- Experience implementing SLOs, SLIs, reliability metrics, and operational excellence programs. Knowledge of networking concepts including DNS, HTTP/S, TLS, load balancing, caching, and content delivery architectures.
What Success Looks Like
- Highly automated Akamai platform operations with minimal manual intervention.
- Secure, reliable, and scalable edge infrastructure supporting mission-critical applications.
- Self-service capabilities that accelerate application onboarding and deployment.
- Improved platform availability, performance, and security posture.
- Reduced operational toil through automation, APIs, and Infrastructure as Code. Strong partnership across development, infrastructure, and security teams.
Compensation
Our salary range for this role is $115,000 - $130,000 and is commensurate with experience, skills and location. This is a benefits eligible position.
Why You Will Love Working Here
EQ is recognized as a Top Employer in US, UK and India! Together we offer more than a job, we offer a place to grow. Through hands-on experience, real-world projects, and access to industry-leading tools, you’ll have what you need to build a meaningful career. You’ll join a diverse, global team united by innovation, collaboration, and a shared passion for what we do. With flexible work options, competitive pay, wellness benefits, and a people-first culture, we support your success - both at work and beyond.
Come and join us — let’s grow together.
#LI-SB1
#LI-HYBRID
Equal Opportunity Statement
We are an equal opportunity employer and make employment decisions without regard to race, creed, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, marital status, national origin, age, disability, family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service, status with regard to public assistance, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or applicable local law.
Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks.
Management Level
GNotified, Your Story Begins Here
We are Notified , the only technology partner dedicated to both investor relations and public relations professionals. We help our clients control and amplify the corporate narrative. Our fully integrated PR and IR platforms streamline every step from press release distribution, media targeting, and analytics to IR websites, earnings and investor events, and regulatory filings. Powered by GlobeNewswire, one of the largest and most trusted newswire distribution networks for over 30 years, we empower communicators to inform a better world.
Notified is an affiliate of Equiniti Group Limited (EQ) , a fintech that connects the future of capital, communications, and governance — building trust and confidence in every market we serve.
Summary
Notified is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Web Reliability Team and serve as a technical leader for our Akamai ecosystem. This is a senior, hands-on role focused on CDN/WAF management, web traffic analysis, bot mitigation, DDoS protection, and traffic optimization . The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of web traffic and security concepts.
You will partner with application, infrastructure, security, and DevOps teams to deliver secure, scalable, highly available edge services that improve application performance and strengthen organizational resiliency.
Location
This role will be based in our Woburn, MA office, located at 130 New Boston Street. This role offers in person collaboration and flexibility to work from home.
What Part You Will Play in Our Growth
- Design, implement, and manage enterprise-scale Akamai CDN, WAF, DNS, Edge Security, and TLS/Certificate Management solutions.
- Serve as the primary technical expert for Akamai platform administration , including onboarding applications, policy management, traffic optimization, security configuration, and troubleshooting.
- Configure, maintain, and optimize Akamai WAF policies , bot protection, rate controls, custom rules, and edge security controls.
- Manage large-scale CDN delivery configurations, caching strategies, traffic routing, performance optimization, and high-availability architectures.
- Administer and automate certificate lifecycle management, including provisioning, rotation, validation, renewals, and compliance requirements.
- Develop Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform to automate Akamai configurations and infrastructure deployments.
- Build integrations and automation using Akamai APIs and other platform APIs to reduce manual operational activities.
- Design and implement self-service capabilities that enable development teams to provision and manage edge platform resources securely and efficiently.
- Develop custom tooling, services, and automation frameworks using modern programming languages .
- Establish and maintain SRE practices including observability, monitoring, alerting, incident management, service-level objectives (SLOs), and error budgets.
- Collaborate with security teams to implement best practices for application protection, vulnerability mitigation, and edge security governance.
- Perform performance analysis, capacity planning, root cause analysis, and continuous reliability improvements for internet-facing applications.
- Participate in operational support, incident response, post-incident reviews, and reliability engineering initiatives. Provide technical leadership and guidance for application onboarding, architecture reviews, and platform modernization efforts.
Required Knowledge and Skills
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field required.
Experience
- 5+ years of relevant experience in CDN, web infrastructure, SRE, network/security engineering, or web security.
- Strong understanding of HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, TLS, TCP/IP, caching, CDN architecture, and reverse proxies.
- Hands-on experience with CDN, WAF, DDoS protection, and web security technologies.
- Experience identifying and mitigating malicious bots, scrapers, scanners, abusive traffic, and DDoS attacks.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills in large-scale production environments.
- Experience automating infrastructure and platform management using Terraform and APIs.
- Strong scripting and software development skills using one or more languages.
- Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting platforms.
- Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills for complex distributed systems.
- Experience working with Git-based source control and modern software development practices.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Proven ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across engineering, security, and application teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Akamai certifications and advanced experience managing enterprise-scale Akamai deployments.
- Experience with Akamai Application & API Protector, Bot Manager, EdgeWorkers, Edge DNS, Global Traffic Management (GTM), and API Security .
- Experience managing thousands of properties, domains, certificates, or WAF policies across multiple business units.
- Expertise in certificate automation and large-scale TLS management.
- Experience building developer self-service portals and automation platforms.
- Experience implementing SLOs, SLIs, reliability metrics, and operational excellence programs. Knowledge of networking concepts including DNS, HTTP/S, TLS, load balancing, caching, and content delivery architectures.
What Success Looks Like
- Highly automated Akamai platform operations with minimal manual intervention.
- Secure, reliable, and scalable edge infrastructure supporting mission-critical applications.
- Self-service capabilities that accelerate application onboarding and deployment.
- Improved platform availability, performance, and security posture.
- Reduced operational toil through automation, APIs, and Infrastructure as Code. Strong partnership across development, infrastructure, and security teams.
Compensation
Our salary range for this role is $115,000 - $130,000 and is commensurate with experience, skills and location. This is a benefits eligible position.
Why You Will Love Working Here
EQ is recognized as a Top Employer in US, UK and India! Together we offer more than a job, we offer a place to grow. Through hands-on experience, real-world projects, and access to industry-leading tools, you’ll have what you need to build a meaningful career. You’ll join a diverse, global team united by innovation, collaboration, and a shared passion for what we do. With flexible work options, competitive pay, wellness benefits, and a people-first culture, we support your success - both at work and beyond.
Come and join us — let’s grow together.
#LI-SB1
#LI-HYBRID
Equal Opportunity Statement
We are an equal opportunity employer and make employment decisions without regard to race, creed, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, marital status, national origin, age, disability, family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service, status with regard to public assistance, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or applicable local law.
Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks.
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Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Banking & Financial Services
- Consulting & Professional Services
- Manufacturing
- Science & Research
What Massachusetts Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in platform engineer jobs across Massachusetts.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, or equivalent container orchestration and infrastructure-as-code tools
- Proficiency building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or ArgoCD
- Strong understanding of cloud platforms, primarily AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, in enterprise environments
- Experience with observability tooling including Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or equivalent monitoring stacks
- Ability to collaborate with development teams to design internal developer platforms and standardize deployment workflows
Platform Engineer Jobs in Massachusetts: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a platform engineer in Massachusetts?
Platform engineering requires no state-issued license in Massachusetts, so the path runs through education and demonstrated technical skill. Most roles expect at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related discipline, though graduates of accredited bootcamps with strong infrastructure portfolios do get hired. Massachusetts employers, particularly in Boston and along Route 128, favor candidates with hands-on cloud and Kubernetes experience and relevant certifications such as CKA or AWS Solutions Architect.
Which companies hire platform engineers in Massachusetts?
Employers hiring platform engineers in Massachusetts right now include Whoop, Apple, and LangChain, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Massachusetts's dense concentration of technology, financial services, and life sciences firms means platform engineering demand stays consistent well beyond the largest household names.
Which Massachusetts cities have the most platform engineer jobs?
Boston, Cambridge, and Quincy account for the largest share of platform engineer openings in Massachusetts. Greater Boston drives the bulk of demand given its concentration of technology companies, financial institutions, and biotech firms, while Cambridge hosts major research-driven employers and suburban Route 128 hubs like Waltham and Burlington attract mid-size and enterprise software companies with active infrastructure teams.
Are there remote platform engineer jobs in Massachusetts?
Yes, and more than most fields. Platform engineering is almost entirely desk-based work, making it well suited to remote and hybrid arrangements. About 77% of platform engineer openings tied to Massachusetts are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting how broadly distributed cloud infrastructure work has become. Roles focused on pure infrastructure automation and internal tooling tend to offer the most remote flexibility, while positions requiring close collaboration with on-site hardware or compliance teams lean toward hybrid.
How can I get hired as a platform engineer in Massachusetts with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is through a junior DevOps, site reliability, or cloud operations role, which many Massachusetts technology employers use as a feeder for platform engineering. Large Boston-area employers in financial services and biotech routinely hire new graduates into infrastructure associate programs where platform tooling is part of the rotation. Building a portfolio that demonstrates Kubernetes, Terraform, or CI/CD pipeline work, even from personal or open-source projects, and earning an entry-level cloud certification significantly strengthens applications for these stepping-stone roles.
Where can I find and apply to platform engineer jobs in Massachusetts?
You can find and apply to platform engineer jobs in Massachusetts on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings across the state. Search the listings to find roles that match your experience level and preferred location, then apply directly to the ones that fit.
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