Senior Platform Engineer

Job Opportunity

We are looking for two software development engineers who excel in team environments and are excited about building cloud native platforms that can scale with the demand of our business. The position is for Sensors Platform, the foundational platform for the Connected Product TI that enables product authentication and inventory accuracy using RFIDs and QR codes. It handles generating RFIDs and QR codes (other sensors/ids later), capturing all events and scans of the IDs/codes and making that data available for real time use-cases as well as data and analytics. Sensors Platform is implemented as a set of globally distributed active-active micro-services and asynchronous processing running in AWS as docker and serverless components, written in Node.js/Typescript, Goland and Rust, using NOSQL databases and streaming solutions and a fully automated pipeline.

Scope & Responsibilities:

• Ensure solutions are designed and developed using a scalable, highly resilient cloud native architecture.
• Deliver well-documented and well-tested code and participate in peer code reviews.
• Design and develop tools and frameworks to improve security, reliability, maintainability, availability and performance for the technology foundation of our platform.
• Ensure product and technical features are delivered to spec and on-time.
• Collaborate with and consult other development teams.
• Explain designs and constraints to stakeholders and technical teams.
• Assist in the support and operation of the platforms you help build.
• Work with product management to support product / service scoping activities.
• Work with leadership to define delivery schedules of key features through an agile framework.
• Be a key contributor to overall architecture, framework and design of enterprise platforms.

Qualifications:

• Masters' or Bachelors' degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in large-scale software development.
• 5+ years of experience architecting and building scalable data architecture.
• Prefer 5 or more years of hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, GCP or similar cloud platform.
• 5+ years of development experience in languages like Golang, Python, Rust, Java or Node.js
• Expertise with front-end development using JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular, etc.), HTML and CSS a plus.
• Experience with both relational and No-SQL databases.
• Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes or other container technologies.