Senior Platform Software Engineer

Owns moderately complex components within platform services or SDKs; leads team-level improvements to integration frameworks and developer tooling. Performs deep debugging across a bounded set of distributed services, driving fixes that protect downstream consumers and upgrade paths. Analyzes usage, performance, and error budgets for specific platform surfaces; implements targeted resilience and capacity optimizations. Authors and curates team-scoped documentation, samples, and adoption guidance.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain cloud-native services and microservices.

• Build highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.

• Participate in software design reviews and contribute to technical discussions.

• Write high-quality, maintainable, and well-tested code.

• Troubleshoot production issues and participate in on-call rotations.

• Analyze system performance and implement improvements for scalability and reliability.

• Collaborate with Product Management, and partner engineering teams.

• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive technical feedback.

• Contribute to operational excellence through monitoring, automation, and documentation.

• Continuously improve engineering practices, tooling, and development processes.

Required Technical Skills

• Strong programming skills in Java, Go, C++, Python, or a similar language.

• Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals.

• Experience developing REST APIs and microservices.

• Knowledge of concurrency, multithreading, and asynchronous programming.

• Understanding of cloud computing concepts and service-oriented architectures.

• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and modern development practices.

• Understanding of system security, authentication protocols, and compliance frameworks (e.g., FedRAMP, PCI DSS).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems.

• Experience operating production cloud services.

• Familiarity with public cloud platforms (OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP).

• Experience with observability tools (metrics, logging, tracing).

• Experience with applied crytography.

Expectations
As Senior Platform Engineer you would be responsible for:

Technical Execution

• Independently deliver medium-sized features and enhancements.

• Break down problems into manageable technical tasks.

• Produce clean, maintainable, and production-ready code.

• Identify and fix production issues with minimal guidance.

Ownership