Senior Platform Software Engineer

Job Description

Owns moderately complex components within platform services or SDKs; leads team-level improvements to integration frameworks and developer tooling. Performs deep debugging across a bounded set of distributed services, driving fixes that protect downstream consumers and upgrade paths. Analyzes usage, performance, and error budgets for specific platform surfaces; implements targeted resilience and capacity optimizations. Authors and curates team-scoped documentation, samples, and adoption guidance.

Owns moderately complex components within platform services or SDKs; leads team-level improvements to integration frameworks and developer tooling. Performs deep debugging across a bounded set of distributed services, driving fixes that protect downstream consumers and upgrade paths. Analyzes usage, performance, and error budgets for specific platform surfaces; implements targeted resilience and capacity optimizations. Authors and curates team-scoped documentation, samples, and adoption guidance.

• Design, develop, test, and maintain cloud-native services and microservices.
• Build highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Participate in software design reviews and contribute to technical discussions.
• Write high-quality, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Troubleshoot production issues and participate in on-call rotations.
• Analyze system performance and implement improvements for scalability and reliability.
• Collaborate with Product Management, and partner engineering teams.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive technical feedback.
• Contribute to operational excellence through monitoring, automation, and documentation.
• Continuously improve engineering practices, tooling, and development processes.

• Strong programming skills in Java, Go, C++, Python, or a similar language.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals.
• Experience developing REST APIs and microservices.
• Knowledge of concurrency, multithreading, and asynchronous programming.
• Understanding of cloud computing concepts and service-oriented architectures.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and modern development practices.
• Understanding of system security, authentication protocols, and compliance frameworks (e.g., FedRAMP, PCI DSS).

• Experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems.
• Experience operating production cloud services.
• Familiarity with public cloud platforms (OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience with observability tools (metrics, logging, tracing).
• Experience with applied crytography.

As Senior Platform Engineer you would be responsible for:

• Independently deliver medium-sized features and enhancements.
• Break down problems into manageable technical tasks.
• Produce clean, maintainable, and production-ready code.
• Identify and fix production issues with minimal guidance.

• Own one or more service components.
• Drive features from design through deployment.
• Take responsibility for operational health of owned components.
• Participate in incident response and postmortem activities.

• Work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Communicate technical tradeoffs clearly.
• Participate actively in design and code reviews.
• Mentor interns and junior engineers on day-to-day engineering practices.

• Build automation to reduce operational toil.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, and service reliability.
• Participate in on-call rotations and production support.
• Continuously improve service availability and performance.

A successful Senior Platform Engineer consistently:

• Delivers high-quality features on…