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title: 'Platform Engineer at GovSignals'
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# Platform Engineer at GovSignals

- **Company:** GovSignals
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/govsignals/f23935a4-6748-4e67-90c1-2369fef45e75

## Job description

GovSignals is next-gen acquisition for the Department of War.

It can take the government longer to buy a capability than an adversary takes to field one, and we exist to close that gap.

We're the only startup managing government contract data with AI in both FedRAMP High and DoW Impact Level 5 environments. Our platform monitors 5,000+ live government data sources, 100,000+ federal and state agencies, and 2,000,000+ government contracts in real time. Our customers in government include offices like DIU and SOCOM, and our customers in industry range from small contractors to Fortune 500 primes with billions in annual awards.

Platform Engineer New York, NY • Full-time • Hybrid (3+ days/week in office)

## ABOUT THE ROLE

We're hiring a Platform Engineer to expand our platform engineering team. You'll work directly with the CTO and own the infrastructure and security of a platform that runs in commercial cloud, FedRAMP High, and IL5 environments. Every GovSignals deployment runs on the infrastructure you'll own. You'll build and operate it daily, and you'll own it once it's in production. When a customer's security team asks how a control works, you are the one who can show them. The work arrives as a requirement rather than a design, and you decide how the platform meets it.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Run the same product in three places at once: commercial cloud, FedRAMP High in AWS GovCloud, and IL5. Where the tooling doesn't work in a restricted network, we make it work. We maintain our own builds of Supabase and [Trigger.dev](http://Trigger.dev).
- Run the Kubernetes clusters, GitOps pipelines, networking, and observability for each environment, and make standing up a new environment a repeatable process.
- Build infrastructure where AI agents are first-class users: agentic harnesses that support how billions in government contract volume gets won and managed, automated remediation loops, and deployment tooling used by engineers and agents alike.
- Work with our deployment team to integrate customer data, including data underpinning America's warfighting capabilities, and support thousands of users at enterprises managing billions in contracts.
- Our stack: Kubernetes, AWS GovCloud, UDS, Cloudflare Workers, TypeScript, Postgres.

## WHAT YOU BRING

- 5+ years in platform, infrastructure, or security engineering roles.
- Experience building infrastructure that other engineers depend on.
- Deep Kubernetes experience in production: cluster operations, networking, GitOps, and upgrades without downtime.
- You've taken infrastructure through a real migration or scaling event and can walk through what broke.
- You build secure by default: hardened images, least-privilege access, network policy, and secrets management are where you start.

Nice to have: experience in FedRAMP, IL, HIPAA, or other regulated environments; Postgres operations (replication, backups, migrations); backend TypeScript; open-source infrastructure work. Clearance: not required. An active or previous clearance is a plus.

## THE TEAM

GovSignals was founded by four cofounders who lived with this problem from both sides (selling to the government and serving inside it) with backgrounds across the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Department of Energy, Palantir, Amazon, federal contractors building for missiles, and state contractors building for prisons. You'll work directly with all four. Other team members at GovSignals have shipped to defense companies, scaled venture-backed startups, and founded companies of their own.

## HOW WE WORK

Design by HI (Human Intelligence), Work by AI (Artificial Intelligence). Human Intelligence takes responsibility for what we build and how we communicate to customers. Artificial Intelligence does much of the building. We provide unlimited Claude and ChatGPT credits for reasonable use, and we expect you to come in with extensive AI experience.

## HOW WE HIRE

- Intro conversation (30 min): your background and how you work.
- Technical interview (1 hr): real-world inspired technical exercises.
- Co-founder conversations (15 min): meet the cofounders.
- Work trial (1 day): real work with the team.
- Offer.

## COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

- Base Salary: $160,000 – $230,000
- Equity: Meaningful stake in a well-funded, fast-growing startup
- Benefits: medical, vision, and dental, unlimited PTO
- Brooklyn Navy Yard office, 3+ days a week in person. The Yard built ships for the Navy from 1801 to 1966, now we build systems for Navy program offices.

Due to the nature of our government work, this role is open only to U.S. citizens and other U.S. Persons. GovSignals is an equal opportunity employer.

## About GovSignals

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: GovSignals is the AI system of work for government contractors and agencies, providing an end-to-end platform for the full acquisition lifecycle from pre-award intelligence through post-award management.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed Stage)
- **Headquarters**: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Conner Aldrich, Jeremy Doochin, Derek Hoyt (Co-founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Government Technology (GovTech), Defense, AI-powered Acquisition Software
- **Target customers**: B2G — Federal and SLED government agencies (buy-side) and government contractors (sell-side), ranging from small 8(a) shops to Fortune 500 primes
- **Mission statement**: "Next-generation acquisition, without the red tape. A stronger America, built faster."

## Products & Services
- **GovSignals Platform (AI System of Work)**: A single, secure workspace covering the entire acquisition lifecycle. Includes a roster of AI agents that handle specific phases of the work — from market research and capture to proposal drafting, clause review, and post-award management. Built on a FedRAMP High + DoW IL5 authorized boundary.
- **Agent: Capture**: Win strategy, black-hat analysis, basis of estimates, vehicle modeling, and competitive intelligence.
- **Agent: Proposal Manager**: Drafts SF330s, compliance matrices, full proposal volumes, and one-click packages.
- **Agent: Market Intel**: Sources-sought synthesis, vendor landscape, teaming fit, and competitive pricing analysis.
- **Agent: Research**: Continuous scan of 5,000+ procurement signal sources (federal, 50 states, 3,000+ counties) scored against past performance.
- **Agent: Post-Award**: Clause review, CDRL tracking, modification drafting, and audit trail management.
- **Agent: BD & Market Analyst**: Opportunity discovery, incumbent analysis, teaming options, and pricing posture.
- **Proprietary Data**: Exclusive intelligence on OTA consortium membership, live teaming networks, and price-to-win benchmarks.
- **Security Infrastructure**: FedRAMP High + DoW IL5 + ITAR compliant boundary, U.S. persons only, U.S. regions, no public-cloud fallbacks, zero retention of tenant data (no model training on customer data).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Total Funding**: $5.5 million (Seed Round, September 24, 2024)
- **Lead Investor**: Unusual Ventures (sole investor in seed round)
- **Key Metrics**: 13 employees (as of mid-2025), with +60% yearly headcount growth and +6.7% monthly growth
- **Notable Achievements**:
  - Multi-million dollar OTA with the U.S. Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) (March 2025)
  - GSA MAS Schedule awarded (January 2026)
  - DoW IL5 authorization through Second Front Systems' Game Warden platform (February 2026) — the only AI acquisition platform with both FedRAMP High and IL5 authorization
  - Active engagements with Navy program offices and special operations commands
- **Growth Signals**: 12 active job postings; monthly job posting growth of +33.3%, quarterly growth of +200%, yearly growth of +71.4%; LinkedIn following of 7,539

## Competitive Advantages
- **Security Moat**: The only AI acquisition platform authorized at both FedRAMP High and DoW IL5, with an ITAR compliant boundary — a combination no competitor matches.
- **Data Moat**: Proprietary intelligence on OTA consortia, teaming networks, and price-to-win benchmarks that no other platform carries.
- **Dual-Sided Platform**: Serves both government buyers and contractors in a single, strictly isolated workspace, creating a unique network effect.
- **Full Lifecycle Coverage**: From pre-solicitation market research through post-award management — eliminating the need for multiple tools.
- **Defensible AI**: Every output is cited and auditable, designed to withstand government oversight and cost evaluation.
- **Founding Team**: Leadership with experience at Amazon, Palantir, Stanford, Harvard Business School, and senior levels of government.

## Strategic Focus
- **Security Expansion**: Building toward classified environments and deployments across military services and combatant commands.
- **Market Penetration**: Scaling across the Department of War, federal civilian agencies, and the SLED market (50 states, 3,000+ counties).
- **Platform Depth**: Continuing to add AI agents and capabilities across the full acquisition lifecycle.
- **Customer Base Growth**: Expanding from early defense customers to a broad base of contractors (A/E firms, defense, technology, professional services) and government agencies.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Work**: "Rebuild how the United States buys what it needs to stay ahead" — direct impact on national security and government efficiency.
- **High-Growth Environment**: 60% yearly headcount growth, with aggressive hiring across engineering, sales, and operations.
- **Security-First Engineering**: Work on cutting-edge AI within the most stringent security environments (FedRAMP High, IL5, ITAR).
- **Small Team, Big Mandate**: 13 employees with an "outsized mandate" — opportunity for outsized impact and ownership.
- **Leadership Credibility**: Founders and leadership with experience at Palantir, Amazon, and senior government roles.
- **Open Roles (12 active)**: Federal Business Development Representative, Deployment Strategist, Head of Sales (Player-Coach), Founding GTM Lead, Compliance Operations Lead, Startup Enterprise Sales Executive (SaaS, New Business), Federal Operations Associate, Product Engineer (Forward Deployed), and more.
- **Work Location**: Headquarters in Washington, D.C. with presence in South Africa. Remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated but likely flexible given the team's distribution.

## Sources
1. [govsignals.ai](https://www.govsignals.ai/)
2. [govsignals.ai/about](https://www.govsignals.ai/about/)
3. [LinkedIn - GovSignals](https://www.linkedin.com/company/govsignals)
4. [CBInsights - GovSignals](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/govsignals)
5. [Tracxn - GovSignals](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/govsignals/__p4F8fzAvTPVoIyWxhtMoK8vQ_2-gHFhIf20GKXFLPtg)
6. [Ashby Careers - GovSignals](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/govsignals)

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