Sr Software Developer-Platform Engineering

Sr Software Developer-Platform Engineering

Des Moines, IA, United States and 7 more

We are building a modern internal technology platform that supports the development and operation of critical business systems across the organization. This platform provides the core infrastructure, application runtime environments, tooling, and monitoring capabilities needed to run reliable and scalable systems. These systems play a key role in supporting our operations, reliability, and service delivery.

The platform spans multiple engineering domains including infrastructure, Kubernetes-based container platforms, developer tooling, messaging platforms, CI/CD systems, and observability platforms. These capabilities enable application teams to deploy and operate services through standardized, automated, and self‑service workflows.

Our approach emphasizes software‑driven infrastructure, infrastructure as code, Git‑based workflows, and modern observability practices. Engineers on the platform team design and build production‑grade systems that improve reliability, reduce operational complexity, and accelerate software delivery across the organization.

The platform is built on widely adopted technologies such as Kubernetes, Terraform, Git‑based workflows, Prometheus, Grafana, and Open Telemetry.

The Platform engineer is responsible for designing, building, and operating the internal developer platform that enables teams to build, deploy, and operate software efficiently and reliably.

This role focuses on delivering self‑service platform capabilities that standardize how applications are built, deployed, and operated across the organization. Platform Engineers work closely with infrastructure, cloud, and application teams to provide scalable platform services including container orchestration tooling, deployment pipelines, messaging systems, observability systems, and developer tooling.

Work Location:

Onsite at one of the listed locations; remote candidates may be considered.

• Design, build, and operate internal platform services that support application development and deployment
• Develop standardized platform capabilities supporting modern application architectures
• Enable self‑service deployment and infrastructure consumption for development teams
• Improve developer productivity by simplifying how applications are built, tested, deployed, and operated

• Develop platform components and automation using modern programming languages (Go, Python, Java)
• Build tooling and APIs that abstract infrastructure complexity from application teams
• Maintain platform infrastructure using infrastructure‑as‑code and Git Ops practices
• Contribute reusable platform components and service templates
• Build and operate CI/CD platforms and automated deployment pipelines
• Maintain integrations between source control systems, build systems, and deployment platforms
• Standardize developer workflows across teams
• Improve software delivery speed through automation and platform capabilities

• Build and operate messaging and event streaming platforms used by application teams
• Support event‑driven architectures using technologies such as Kafka, Rabbit
  
  MQ, or similar systems
• Ensure messaging platforms are reliable, scalable, and observable
• Provide standards and tooling that enable teams to publish and consume events consistently

• Build and maintain observability systems enabling monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing
• Implement telemetry pipelines using Prometheus, Grafana, and Open Telemetry
• Participate in reliability engineering practices including incident response and operational improvement

• Implement platform security best practices including identity management and secrets management
• Ensure platform services support organizational security and compliance requirements

Bachelor's degree in management information systems (MIS), computer science, or related technical field; or equivalent work experience. (Typically four years of related, progressive work experience would be needed for candidates…