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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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Ownership
- Own one or more service components.
- Drive features from design through deployment.
- Take responsibility for operational health of owned components.
Participate in incident response and postmortem activities.
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Collaboration
- Work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Communicate technical tradeoffs clearly.
- Participate actively in design and code reviews.
Mentor interns and junior engineers on day-to-day engineering practices.
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Operational Excellence
- Build automation to reduce operational toil.
- Improve monitoring, alerting, and service reliability.
- Participate in on-call rotations and production support.
Continuously improve service availability and performance.
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Success Indicators
A successful Senior Platform Engineer consistently:
- Delivers high-quality features on schedule.
- Demonstrates ownership of production services.
- Writes reliable, maintainable, and well-tested code.
- Makes sound technical decisions with limited supervision.
- Resolves production issues efficiently.
- Contributes positively to team engineering culture.
- Earns trust through technical competence and execution.
