Platform Engineer IV

Position Summary

This role is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high‑quality software solutions that support scalable, reliable, and secure business operations. The position involves enhancing platform infrastructure, optimizing system performance, and contributing to the development of robust integrations and data‑driven features.

Job #: 3020600

Job Title:

Platform Engineer IV

Location:

Remote (EST/CST)

Pay: $69-$72

Length: 3 months

• Refactoring Apex code to support increased data volume and improved performance.
• Updating integration logic to accommodate new products, data models, or system requirements.
• Creating unit tests and deployment‑ready code aligned with Salesforce development best practices.
• Documenting code changes, architectural decisions, and performance enhancements.

• Advanced experience with Apex programming and Salesforce development.
• Strong understanding of Salesforce APIs, triggers, batch processing, and integration patterns.
• Experience optimizing code for high‑volume data operations.
• Familiarity with external system connectivity and API‑based integrations.
• Proficiency in debugging, performance tuning, and scalable solution design.

• Maintain platform uptime, performance, stability, and scalability.
• Monitor production systems and address issues proactively.
• Implement tools and processes that support analytics, monitoring, machine learning, and data‑warehouse platforms.
• Continuously refine alerting and monitoring systems.

• Contribute to system architecture discussions, providing guidance, mentorship, and technical leadership.
• Develop and maintain public APIs and internal service interfaces.
• Build robust, extensible solutions based on feature requests and business needs.
• Collaborate with data scientists to develop advanced, data‑driven features.
• Work with database administrators to design ETL processes and data‑warehouse systems.

• Work with large‑scale data technologies such as Kafka, Hadoop, or Spark.
• Partner with operations teams to automate workflows and enhance service reliability.
• Define and implement strategies for networking, backups, and distributed computing environments.
• Provision, configure, maintain, back up, and monitor on‑premises and cloud‑based server resources.
• Develop deployment strategies for both client‑facing and internal systems.

• Experience in software and systems development.
• Strong background in building and maintaining software systems.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Elixir, or Go.
• Strong Linux administration skills.
• Experience with major cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean).
• Solid understanding of IT security principles and best practices.
• Experience with automation and configuration tools (e.g., Puppet, Ansible) and/or orchestration platforms (e.g., Docker Swarm, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of computer networking fundamentals.
• Experience administering systems at production scale.

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