Platform Engineer

Cargill is committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. Sitting at the heart of the supply chain, we partner with farmers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living.

Our 155,000 team members innovate with purpose, providing customers with life's essentials so businesses can grow, communities prosper, and consumers live well. With over 160 years of experience as a family company, we look ahead while remaining true to our values. We put people first. We reach higher. We do the right thing-today and for generations to come.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Platform Engineer will help build the foundation for the company's modern business applications. In this role, you will apply your knowledge of modern infrastructure and cloud software engineering practices to build, secure, and maintain the core capabilities used by our data and application teams to drive business value.??

Key Accountabilities

• Partners to design and develop high quality software solutions by writing clean, maintainable and efficient codes.

• Applies internal software deployment platform, continuous integration or continuous delivery pipeline and twelve factor development methodology to automate the deployment process, ensuring smooth and reliable releases.

• Partners with cross functional team of product managers, designers and other engineers to gather moderately complex requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs.

• Writes and maintains moderately complex unit tests and integration tests, and performs debugging to maintain the quality and performance of the software, applying test driven development as needed.

• Identifies and suggests options for improving the software development and deployment processes, and implements the approved standards to improve efficiency and reliability.

• Drafts and maintains comprehensive documentation for moderately complex software applications, deployment processes and system configurations.

• Provides technical support and troubleshooting for moderately complex issues with deployed applications to ensure minimal downtime and fast resolution.

Qualifications

• Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience

• Experience building and operating cloud-agnostic or hybrid infrastructure platforms, including compute, networking, storage, and identity services. Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi) to provision and manage scalable environments

• Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language (e.g., Go, Python, Bash) used for automation and platform tooling

Preferred:

• Experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation frameworks that enable self-service for application teams.

• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and platform patterns that support modern application delivery.

• Proficiency building and operating APIs used to abstract infrastructure complexity, enforce standards, and provide seamless developer experiences through automation, tooling, and governance.

• Familiarity deploying, managing, and engineering within a vast array of hyperscaler technologies (eg: AWS, GCP, Azure)

• Understanding of platform engineering principles, including internal developer platforms (IDPs), self-service capabilities, and developer experience optimization.

• Experience implementing security, compliance, and governance controls within platform tooling (e.g., identity, secrets management, policy enforcement).

• Knowledge of observability practices including logging, monitoring, and alerting to ensure platform reliability and performance. (eg: Elastic, DataDog)

• Ability to work across teams to define standards and improve software delivery, operational maturity, and platform adoption.

Additional:

• The business will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position

• This position requires onsite (hybrid) presence at our Midtown Atlanta Technology Hub

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.

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