Platform Engineer

Job#: 3037922

Job Description:

Role: Platform Engineer (API & Developer Tools)

Duration: Long-Term Contract

Location: Hybrid - 4 days/week onsite

Description:

Platform Engineering builds shared services, APIs, and developer tooling that enable engineering teams to deliver value safely, efficiently, and at scale. This role is focused on backend software engineering, with emphasis on building high-quality APIs, automation, and developer-facing tools, supported by working knowledge of cloud, DevOps, and SRE practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build secure, reliable, and well-documented internal and customer-facing APIs and services
• Develop developer tools and platform services to enhance developer experience (DX), including templates, CLIs, libraries, and service scaffolding
• Apply engineering best practices including test-driven development, code reviews, CI/CD, and safe deployment patterns
• Build for operability, including structured logging, metrics, tracing, health checks, and actionable alerting
• Collaborate with platform and product teams to standardize engineering patterns (authentication/authorization, configuration, secrets management, resilience, versioning)
• Support incident response and drive reliability improvements to reduce operational risk and defects
• Contribute to the definition and evolution of platform standards, tooling, and reusable patterns

Required Skills

• Python: Ability to develop production-grade, tested, and documented code for platform automation and tooling
• Go: Experience building performant, concurrent services, APIs, CLIs, or automation tools
• Docker: Ability to build and manage production-ready containerized applications
• Kubernetes: Experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting workloads in Kubernetes environments
• REST APIs: Strong experience designing, implementing, and versioning APIs with proper error handling, pagination, and backward compatibility
• Linux: Strong troubleshooting and operational experience across networking, processes, permissions, and performance
• Google Cloud Platform: Experience provisioning, operating, and troubleshooting cloud-native platform services

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of IT experience, including 4+ years in software development
• Proficiency in at least one primary programming language and working experience in a second (e.g., Python, Go, Java, C#, TypeScript)
• Strong experience delivering production-grade APIs and services across the full lifecycle (design, development, testing, deployment, operations)
• Experience with API lifecycle management, including versioning and backward compatibility
• Strong testing discipline across unit, integration, and component testing
• Working knowledge of cloud-native development, including containers and CI/CD pipelines
• Ability to debug and troubleshoot across application, runtime, and platform layers using logs, metrics, and traces

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

• Experience building and managing internal platform APIs with a product-oriented mindset (usability, documentation, adoption)
• Experience with event-driven and asynchronous architectures (queues, pub/sub), including reliability and idempotency patterns
• Knowledge of security best practices, including OAuth/OIDC, least privilege models, and threat modeling
• Experience improving system reliability through SLOs and automation to reduce operational toil
• Experience with Kubernetes ecosystems and infrastructure as code in partnership with platform/SRE teams
• Exposure to CI/CD pipeline tooling (e.g., Tekton) and GitOps workflows
• Ability to build lightweight internal UIs or tooling (e.g., React)

Ways of Working

• Deliver incrementally with frequent releases and rapid feedback loops
• Maintain high engineering standards, including quality, observability, and secure defaults
• Own end-to-end delivery, including production support, documentation, and continuous improvement

Success Measures

• Platform APIs and tools achieve strong adoption due to reliability, usability, and clear documentation
• Engineering teams spend less time on undifferentiated work and more time delivering business value
• Reduction in incidents and operational risk through improved observability, consistency, and release practices

Education

• Required: Bachelor's Degree

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