Platform Engineer

Software Engineer – Platform Engineering (APIs & Developer Tools) Overview Platform Engineering builds shared services, APIs, and developer tooling to help engineering teams deliver value quickly and safely. This role focuses on building high-quality APIs, automation, and internal tools, with exposure to cloud, DevOps, and SRE practices. Responsibilities Design and build secure, reliable, and well-documented internal and customer-facing APIs Develop developer tools and platform services to improve developer experience (DX): CLIs, templates, libraries, automation, and service scaffolding Apply engineering best practices including TDD, code reviews, CI/CD, and safe deployment strategies Build for operability: logging, metrics, tracing, health checks, and alerting Collaborate with platform and product teams to standardize patterns (authentication, authorization, configuration, resilience, versioning) Support incident response and drive reliability improvements to reduce defects and operational risk Required Qualifications Strong experience building and operating production APIs/services (design, development, testing, deployment) Proficiency in at least one backend language: Python, Go, Java, C#, or TypeScript Solid understanding of API design and lifecycle management (versioning, backward compatibility, pagination, error handling) Strong testing discipline (unit, integration, component testing) Working knowledge of cloud-native environments: containers, CI/CD, and cloud platforms Experience troubleshooting across application, runtime, and platform layers using logs, metrics, and traces Preferred Qualifications Experience building platform APIs with a product mindset (usability, documentation, adoption) Familiarity with event-driven architectures (pub/sub, queues), reliability, and idempotency Security knowledge (OAuth/OIDC, least privilege, threat modeling, input validation) Experience with SLOs and automation to improve reliability and reduce operational toil Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code experience Technical Skills Python: Production-grade development for automation and tooling Go: Concurrent, performant services (APIs, CLIs, operators) Docker: Build and manage production container images Kubernetes: Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot workloads REST APIs: Design, implement, and version production APIs Linux: System-level troubleshooting (networking, processes, performance) GCP: Deploy and manage cloud-native services Nice to Have Tekton (CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows) React (internal developer tools, dashboards, self-service UIs) Experience 6+ years of overall IT experience 4+ years of software development experience Proficiency in two programming languages, or advanced expertise in one #J-18808-Ljbffr EPITEC