Platform Engineer Lead

Lead Platform Engineer – Capital Group As a senior individual contributor within the Banzai SDLC / DevOps team at Capital Group, you will be a software developer and technologist who builds, optimizes, and modernizes the toolchains that engineering teams depend on every day. You will design and deliver enterprise‑grade developer tooling, treating the SDLC as a product and developers as your primary consumers, while operating at the intersection of developer experience, platform engineering, and build automation. You will help evolve the core SDLC toolchain end‑to‑end: CI/CD pipeline orchestration, code quality and static analysis, artifact and package management, and the build automation frameworks that tie them together. You approach these systems as a solutions expert—architecting quality gates, artifact promotion strategies, dependency governance, and pipeline patterns that are fast, reliable, and self‑service. You will also help define and deliver standardized SDLC capabilities—including automation, security integration, observability, and AI‑assisted development—that reduce cognitive load while preserving flexibility for teams to innovate. These capabilities will be delivered through opinionated golden paths, reusable patterns, and clear ways of working that scale across business units. A core responsibility of this role is hands‑on adoption and enterprise enablement of AI‑assisted software development. You will actively use, evaluate, and push the boundaries of tools such as Claude, Code, GitHub Copilot, and similar AI development environments—integrating them into your own daily workflow first and then hardening and operationalizing them as first‑class engineering capabilities. This includes building the enterprise controls, guardrails, and usage patterns required to safely adopt these tools at scale, while demonstrating fundamentally new ways of working that improve productivity, quality, and onboarding efficiency. This role is deeply hands‑on. You will lead through technical authority, working software, and solution design, partnering across Platform Engineering, Architecture, Security, and application teams to ensure solutions are intuitive, scalable, and aligned with enterprise standards. Benefits Enjoy generous time‑away and health benefits from day one, with the opportunity for flexible work options Receive 2‑for‑1 matching gifts for your charitable contributions and the opportunity to secure annual grants for the organizations you love Access on‑demand professional development resources that allow you to hone existing skills and learn new ones Candidate Profile You are a developer at heart who builds platforms, operating as a senior individual contributor (PE5) and influencing platform direction, standards, and engineering practices through deep technical expertise rather than formal people management. You have built and optimized CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and developer toolchains—not just configured them. You understand build automation deeply (compilation, dependency resolution, artifact lifecycle, caching strategies) and have strong opinions about what makes a toolchain fast, reliable, and developer‑friendly. You have hands‑on solution‑level expertise with tools such as: Harness.io (pipeline orchestration, deployment strategies, governance policies) SonarQube (quality gates, SAST integration, technical debt management) Package and artifact management (Artifactory, Nexus, or similar; dependency governance and promotion workflows) You have experience building developer tooling, SDLC platforms, and DevOps capabilities that serve many teams and are operated as long‑lived platform products. You bring strong knowledge of modern software delivery practices, including CI/CD, GitOps, cloud‑native platforms, and automated governance. You are a practitioner of AI‑assisted development—you use tools like Claude, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot daily and have formed a clear point of view on how they change the way software is built. You have helped (or are ready to help) define enterprise‑ready patterns for these tools, including: Secure access and identity integration Data handling and prompt context boundaries Cost visibility and usage controls Auditing, logging, and observability Clear "approved ways of working" for developers You have a passion for toolchain optimization and modernization—you actively seek out friction in developer workflows and eliminate it through better automation, smarter defaults, and modern tooling. You are comfortable enabling new engineering ways of working—such as AI‑augmented design, implementation, and review—while maintaining the company’s expectations for quality, security, and operational rigor. You partner effectively with Product Management, Architecture, Security, and SRE to balance speed, safety, and standardization. You communicate clearly with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders and can translate platform strategy into concrete developer outcomes. You are a continuous learner who actively experiments, evaluates emerging tools, and incorporates learnings into scalable platform capabilities. You hold a bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience). Skills and Experience You bring experience across several of the following areas: 10+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps roles, with a strong foundation as a developer who builds and ships software. Developer tooling and SDLC platforms, including shared services, pipelines, and self‑service automation. AI‑assisted development tools and practices (Claude, GitHub Copilot, or similar) – as a daily practitioner, not only an evaluator. Building controls and guardrails into developer platforms rather than relying on manual process or policy. Cloud platforms and container orchestration (AWS preferred; Kubernetes and Docker). Infrastructure as Code and automation (Terraform or equivalent). Software development in TypeScript, Python, Java, or Go—writing production code, not just pipeline YAML. API and microservice design in distributed systems. DevOps and DevSecOps practices across the full SDLC. CI/CD pipeline design and orchestration (Harness.io preferred; GitHub Actions, or similar also valued). Code quality and static analysis platforms (SonarQube, SonarCloud, or equivalent). Artifact and package management (Sonatype Nexus, Artifactory, or cloud‑native registries; dependency governance and promotion strategies). Build automation and tooling (Gradle, Maven, npm/yarn, MSBuild, or similar; reproducibility, and performance optimization). Observability concepts including metrics, logs, traces, and open standards such as OpenTelemetry. Technical documentation—including platform standards, architectural designs, and developer‑facing guidance. A track record of modernizing and optimizing SDLC toolchains—replacing manual friction with automation, raising quality bars through better tooling, and institutionalizing new ways of working through well‑designed solutions. Compensation Base salary range: $153,842 – $246,147. In addition to a highly competitive base salary, per plan guidelines, restrictions and vesting requirements, you also will be eligible for an individual annual performance bonus, Capital’s annual profitability bonus, and a retirement plan where Capital contributes 15% of your eligible earnings. Equal Opportunity Employer We are an equal‑opportunity employer, which means we comply with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit discrimination when making all decisions about employment. As equal‑opportunity employers, our policies prohibit unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including gender and gender identity), pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, AIDS/HIV status, political activities or affiliations, military or veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, assault or stalking or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. #J-18808-Ljbffr Capital Group