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Senior Platform Engineer || New Jersey || Contract

Jersey City, NJ, US • Posted 19 hours ago • Updated 19 hours ago

Contract Independent

Contract W2

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Job Details

Skills

Platform Engineer
Envoy Proxy
Kong API Gateway
Golang
Kubernetes
OAuth
Open Policy Agent

Summary

Senior Platform Engineer || New Jersey || Contract

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

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