Senior Platform Engineer

Jersey City, NJ, US • Posted 1 day ago • Updated 5 hours ago
Contract W2
Contract Independent
No Travel Required
On-site
$40 - $50/hr
Fitment

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Job Details

Skills

  • Golang
  • networking
  • ForgeRock
  • OPA
  • Kubernetes
  • OpenTelemetry

Summary

Senior Platform Engineer
Jersey City, NJ

Contract

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate Envoy and Kong gateway infrastructure supporting production traffic across multiple lines of business
  • Develop Go-based control plane services, including ingress registry, xDS controllers, session management, and context propagation
  • Implement and maintain OPA (Open Policy Agent) policies for gateway-level authorization
  • Build and extend OpenTelemetry pipelines (OTel Collector, Dynatrace, Splunk SIEM integration)
  • Manage GitOps-based deployments using ArgoCD and Helm across multi-cluster Kubernetes environments
  • Automate WAF rule management across CDN platforms (Akamai, Cloudflare) using infrastructure-as-code approaches
  • Contribute to internal platform tooling and dashboards (TypeScript/React) for route management and observability
  • Partner with application teams to onboard services and migrate legacy ingress traffic
  • Participate in incident response, runbook development, and production readiness reviews
  • Promote engineering best practices including testing, code reviews, and observability-first design

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • 8+ years of industry experience in platform, infrastructure, or backend engineering
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with:
    • Envoy Proxy (xDS/ADS, ext_authz, HTTP/2, gRPC, WebSocket) and/or
    • Kong API Gateway (plugin development, DB-less mode, Admin API)
  • Strong proficiency in Go (Golang), including concurrency patterns and distributed systems design
  • Deep experience with Kubernetes (EKS and/or on-prem):
    • Helm, HPA, PodDisruptionBudgets, NetworkPolicy, namespace isolation
    • GitOps workflows (ArgoCD)
  • Strong understanding of authentication & security protocols:
    • OAuth 2.0, OIDC, PKCE
    • mTLS, DPoP, session management patterns
  • Experience with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego policy development
  • Hands-on experience with observability tooling:
    • OpenTelemetry (traces, metrics, logs)
    • Dynatrace and Splunk SIEM
  • Experience with data and messaging systems:
    • PostgreSQL (HA, pooling, PITR)
    • Kafka (MSK, Schema Registry, DLQ patterns)
  • Familiarity with:
    • CDN/WAF platforms (Akamai, Cloudflare)
    • DNS routing (GeoDNS, GTM, health checks)
    • TLS lifecycle management (cert-manager, KMS/HSM)
  • Strong foundation in networking (L3–L7), distributed systems, and algorithms
  • Proven experience building high-throughput, low-latency, resilient systems

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with TypeScript/React for internal tooling or dashboards
  • Strong background in AWS services (EKS, MSK, Lambda, Direct Connect, Network Firewall)
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket Pipelines, GitOps workflows)
  • Experience with Continuous Access Evaluation Protocol (CAEP) or similar session revocation systems

Background in identity platforms (ForgeRock, SAML, token exchange patterns)

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  • Dice Id: 10468729
  • Position Id: 8954859
  • Posted 1 day ago
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