Senior Software Engineer – PLM

Arka Innovate is seeking a
Senior Software Engineer – PLM Platform
to join a U.S.

-based engineering team supporting a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform.

This is a hands-on
Senior Individual Contributor
role focused on building and supporting the technical layer around PLM. The engineer will develop backend services, enterprise integrations, automation, and custom extensions connecting PLM with ERP, analytics, ECAD, and other downstream enterprise systems.

The ideal candidate is a
production-minded backend engineer
who can take ownership of solutions end-to-end—from architecture and development through CI/CD, Kubernetes deployment, observability, troubleshooting, and production support.

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support scalable backend services and enterprise integrations.
• Build custom extensions and services around PLM and related engineering platforms.
• Develop integrations between PLM, ERP, analytics, ECAD, and other enterprise systems.
• Design and implement robust REST APIs and integration services.
• Implement reliable API communication patterns, including pagination, retries, idempotency, error handling, and partial-failure recovery.
• Develop secure authentication and authorization solutions using
  OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC).
• Design relational and document-oriented data models based on application and integration requirements.
• Build and maintain cloud-native applications, preferably on
  Microsoft Azure
  .
• Containerize applications and deploy/manage workloads using
  Kubernetes
  .
• Troubleshoot application, container, networking, deployment, and production issues in Kubernetes environments.
• Own CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation using tools such as
  Azure Dev Ops, Terraform, Bicep, ARM
  , or comparable technologies.
• Implement automated unit, integration, and functional testing.
• Establish production telemetry, logging, monitoring, and alerting.
• Participate in production support and root-cause analysis.
• Create technical design documents, runbooks, operational documentation, and engineering standards.
• Apply software engineering best practices, including
  SOLID principles, design patterns, clean code, and maintainable architecture
  .
• Contribute to modernization of legacy applications while maintaining production stability.
• Collaborate with architects, product teams, engineering teams, and business stakeholders.
• Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools effectively for software development, debugging, testing, code analysis, and technical documentation.

• 11+ years of professional experience
  building and supporting production-grade backend software.
• Strong experience with modern backend application development.
• StrongC#/.NET
  development experience preferred.
• Strong
  Java, Go, or Kotlin
  candidates may also be considered if they are willing and able to transition to C#/.NET.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native development and deployment.
• Strong
  Microsoft Azure
  experience preferred; AWS or GCP experience is acceptable.
• Hands-on experience with
  Docker and Kubernetes
  , including real-world production troubleshooting.
• Strong experience developing and integrating
  REST APIs
  .
• Understanding of API reliability patterns including:
  • Pagination
  • Retries
  • Idempotency
  • Error handling
  • Partial-failure handling
• Strong knowledge of
  OAuth 2.0 and OIDC
  .
• Experience with relational databases and document-oriented data stores.
• Experience with
  Infrastructure as Code
  and CI/CD.
• Experience with one or more of:
  • Terraform
  • Bicep
  • ARM templates
  • Azure Dev Ops Pipelines
  • Comparable CI/CD and infrastructure automation tools
• Strong understanding of software design principles, design patterns, and
  SOLID
  .
• Experience with automated testing.
• Strong troubleshooting and production-support skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication…