Sr Platform Engineer - Backend
Baker Tilly1 day ago
Portland, OR, USA +7 moreSenior
Base Salary
$150k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, and runtime components supporting AI agents, enterprise applications, and shared platform capabilities.
- Implement authentication, authorization, entitlement, and delegated-access capabilities for users, AI agents, and autonomous processes.
- Develop secure APIs, service interfaces, and Model Context Protocol endpoints for governed enterprise data access.
- Build reusable platform services and stable interfaces that support integration, evaluation, and replacement of AI models, tools, and third-party technologies.
- Implement event-driven interfaces, logging, tracing, and telemetry pipelines for monitoring, evaluation, and continuous improvement.
- Integrate automated evaluations, testing frameworks, and performance baselines into development and deployment processes.
- Build, deploy, monitor, troubleshoot, and maintain production services, including automated testing, observability, CI/CD pipelines, and operational support.
- Contribute to platform architecture, technical documentation, shared development patterns, code reviews, and engineering standards.
- Transition platform capabilities from external engineering partners into internally owned, documented, and maintainable production environments.
- Collaborate with AI Engineering, Data & AI Platform, enterprise architecture, security, integration engineering, and globally distributed teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; an advanced degree is preferred.
- At least 3 years of hands-on backend or platform software engineering experience designing, developing, and operating production services used by other engineering teams.
- Experience independently building, deploying, and operating shared backend services and their build and deployment pipelines.
- Hands-on experience implementing authentication, authorization, or entitlement capabilities in production applications or services.
- Deep proficiency in at least one mainstream programming language, such as Python, TypeScript, Go, or Java; Python and TypeScript familiarity is preferred.
- Strong experience with backend service development, APIs, service integration, secure application design, and distributed systems fundamentals.
- Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, including data modeling, querying, and backend integration.
- Hands-on experience with containers, cloud infrastructure, automated build processes, and CI/CD pipelines for production applications.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals in system design, automated testing, debugging, code reviews, performance optimization, and reliable service development.
- Experience evaluating technical solutions through tests, benchmarks, experiments, performance metrics, or comparative evaluations.
- Experience with event-driven architectures, messaging systems, streaming technologies, or asynchronous processing is preferred.
- Familiarity with observability, monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing technologies such as OpenTelemetry is preferred.
- Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure, and related infrastructure, deployment, and security services is preferred.
- Additional experience with enterprise identity and access management, entitlement systems, or secure service-to-service communication is preferred.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, documentation, prioritization, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Experience using AI-assisted and agentic development tools, or willingness to incorporate them into daily development practices, is preferred; prior AI, LLM, or agentic-system experience is not required.
- No professional certifications or licenses are required.
Benefits
- Baker Tilly offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package to eligible employees.
- The posting instructs candidates to discuss work-location status with a Baker Tilly talent acquisition professional.
- The role collaborates with globally distributed engineering teams and external technology partners.
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About Baker Tilly
Baker Tilly provides audit/assurance, tax, and advisory services—including analytics, governance risk and compliance, and government contracting—to companies, public sector entities, and nonprofits. Headquartered in Chicago and organized as a partnership, it operates coast to coast in the U.S. and is an independent member of Baker Tilly International, with U.S. attest services delivered by Baker Tilly US, LLP and tax and advisory by Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP.