- Company Name
- Codat
- Job Title
- Senior Software Engineer- Platform Engineering
- Job Description
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**Job title**
Senior Software Engineer – Platform Engineering
**Role summary**
Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of core platform services that enable internal engineering teams. Drive the technical roadmap for a cloud‑native infrastructure, ensuring simplicity, scalability, performance, and security. Mentor product engineers, establish best practices, and deliver operational excellence in a high‑growth environment.
**Expectations**
- Proven senior‑level backend engineering experience in production, high‑availability cloud systems.
- Strong leadership in mentoring and fostering a collaborative “platform is product” culture.
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction, drive architecture decisions, and prioritize reliability and cost efficiency.
**Key responsibilities**
- Design, implement, and evolve platform services and tooling to improve developer productivity, reliability, and security.
- Shape and advance the cloud infrastructure roadmap, emphasizing simplicity, scalability, and cost.
- Define and champion CI/CD pipelines, observability (logging, metrics, tracing), and automated testing best practices.
- Own resolution of complex production incidents, proactively identify bottlenecks, and enforce reliability standards.
- Mentor and guide product engineering teams on platform usage, architecture patterns, and operational procedures.
**Required skills**
- Extensive experience with production‑grade, highly available cloud environments.
- Deep proficiency in C# and other strongly‑typed languages.
- Hands‑on experience with Infrastructure‑as‑Code tools (e.g., Terraform).
- Expertise in CI/CD, progressive deployments, containerization, and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Solid understanding of networking, security best practices, observability, and performance monitoring.
**Required education & certifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- No mandatory certifications; relevant industry‑approved credentials (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator) are a plus.