Senior Platform Software Engineer

13 days ago

USA (city not specified)Senior

Base Salary

$150k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

Design and build shared platform capabilities, reusable backend services, libraries, frameworks, and integrations.
Create application-level abstractions, automation, and integration patterns that make AWS infrastructure secure and reliable for application teams.
Decompose platform work, write specifications and contracts, direct AI agents, and intervene in implementation when technical judgment or debugging is required.
Design for reuse, backward compatibility, safe migrations, configuration, documentation, adoption, and testability across multiple consumers.
Establish platform defaults for authentication, authorization, failure handling, telemetry, and deployment safety.
Own testing strategy, validate generated tests, review agent and human work, respond to incidents, and own production outcomes and platform adoption.

Deep server-side engineering experience with Java, Python, C#, Kotlin, or Go.
Experience designing and operating backend systems and building reusable components used by other engineers.
Strong distributed systems fundamentals, including API and event contracts, asynchronous messaging, concurrency, idempotency, consistency, failure handling, and versioning.
Hands-on AWS experience designing and operating production workloads across compute, networking, storage, databases, messaging, and IAM.
Experience with containers, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD.
Experience building shared backend foundations such as service frameworks, common libraries, authentication and authorization, or integration layers.
Production reliability and security engineering experience, including observability, SLOs, incident response, resilient architectures, and secure handling of sensitive or regulated data.
Experience with unit, integration, contract, and compatibility testing for shared platform software.
Production experience using agentic AI as a primary development surface, including specifying complex work, directing agents, and verifying correctness across integrations and edge cases.

Full benefits package including paid time off, medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with match, employee assistance program, and wellness program.

1,001-5,000 employees