Platform Engineer IV

Job Title
:
Platform Engineer IV

Location
: REMOTE EST/CST

Years of Experience
: 5-20

Contract Length
: 7/30/26

• Advanced Apex programming and Salesforce development experience
• Experience with code optimization for high-volume data loads
• Familiarity with integration patterns and external system connectivity
• Knowledge of Salesforce APIs, triggers, and batch processing
• Strong debugging and performance tuning skills

Responsible for building outstanding software solutions to drive the success of a business. Build various aspects of the company's infrastructure to power innumerable conversations at scale.

• Refactored Apex code to handle increased data volume.
• Updated integration logic for new products or data structures.
• Unit tests and deployment-ready code aligned with Salesforce best practices.
• Documentation of code changes and performance improvements.

• Advanced Apex programming and Salesforce development experience.
• Knowledge of Salesforce APIs, triggers, and batch processing.
• Experience with code optimization for high-volume data loads.
• Familiarity with integration patterns and external system connectivity.
• Strong debugging and performance tuning skills.

• Maintain the company platform uptime, performance, stability, and scalability
• Design, guide, mentor and challenge system architecture and design with others
• Develop and maintain a public API
• Develop best possible, most robust, and extensible solutions from feature requests
• Work with big data technology (Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, etc)
• Work with Data Scientists to develop rich value-added features
• Work with DBA to create ETL and Data Warehouse system
• Work with Operations to automate solutions and increase service reliability
• Closely monitor all platform related production systems
• Building tools and processes to support analytics, monitoring, machine-learning and data‑warehousing platforms.
• Define and implement various strategies covering everything from subnets to backups to fog networking/computing configuration and deployments.
• Provision, configure, maintain, backup, and monitor onsite and cloud based server resources.
• Define and implement deployment strategies for client-facing and internal tool systems.
• Continual improvement and fine-tuning of various alerting and monitoring systems.

• Experience in software/systems development.
• Strong software development background, experience building software systems.
• Working knowledge of at least one of the following languages: PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Elixir, Go or comparable.
• Strong background in Linux administration.
• Strong experience with cloud providers such as AWS, Digital Ocean, Google Cloud, etc.
• Strong understanding of IT security best practices.
• Experience with automation/configuration software (puppet, ansible), and/or orchestration software (docker swarm, kubernetes, etc).
• Understanding of computer networks.
• Experience with administration of at production scale.

SDS, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

• Competitive base salary
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage
• Optional life and disability insurance provided
• 401(k) with a company match and optional profit sharing
• Paid vacation time
• Paid Bench time
• Training allowance offering
• You’ll be eligible to earn referral bonuses!