Platform Software Engineer III

Description

Robert Half is seeking a Senior Software Engineer III to support the infrastructure, platforms, and services that power our applications and ELT/ETL pipelines. This role focuses on building and maintaining scalable, reliable, and secure platform components that enable engineering teams to deliver efficiently. Ideal candidates bring deep experience in cloud environments (AWS/Azure), infrastructure automation, CI/CD, monitoring, and platform reliability, with strong hands-on programming skills.

What You'll Do

Design, build, and own large-scale platform and infrastructure components supporting CI/CD, cloud-native services, and production environments.

Implement and maintain solutions across the full platform stack, including infrastructure-as-code, middleware, service orchestration, and monitoring.

Lead design and development of high-availability, fault-tolerant infrastructure, automation, and deployment pipelines.

Refactor and improve existing platform systems to enhance scalability, performance, and maintainability.

Develop testable, production-ready modules using TDD and established platform design patterns.

Support and troubleshoot complex production issues, lead incident resolution, and define response playbooks.

Collaborate cross-functionally to define requirements, drive improvements, and support all SDLC phases.

Produce and maintain technical design documentation and operational procedures.

Mentor and conduct code/design reviews for junior and mid-level engineers, including approval of deliverables.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

6+ years of software engineering experience in enterprise environments, including 2+ years mentoring engineers.

5+ years of hands-on development using Python, Spark, Java, SQL, and Shell scripting.

Strong experience with AWS and Azure, including building and operating cloud infrastructure.

Expertise building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git) and DevOps tooling.

Experience with monitoring, alerting, and platform reliability practices.

Familiarity with data engineering tools and workflows (Spark, Glue, Python, Jupyter, Lambda).

Experience with relational databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server).

Comfort working in Linux and Windows environments.

Experience with Agile/SDLC, n-tier architectures, and SaaS applications.

Working knowledge of JIRA, ServiceNow, and job scheduling tools (e.g., Autosys).

Strong documentation, communication, and cross-team collaboration skills.

Proven analytical, problem-solving, and project delivery capabilities.

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