Lead Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and sustain internal platforms, services, and tools that support CI/CD, automation, and software delivery.

• Lead the product life cycle for development platforms, including CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, platform automation, and productivity tools.

• Implement DevOps and enablement methodologies to enhance development speed, reliability, quality, and operational efficiency.

• Collaborate with product, platform, and application engineering teams to refine developer workflows and platform usability.

• Advocate for intuitive, accessible, and well-documented developer enablement tools that meet user needs.

• Mentor and guide engineers on architecture, coding standards, DevOps practices, and UI/UX considerations.

• Conduct technical deep dives, design reviews, and training sessions.

• Evaluate, prototype, test, implement, and retire technologies as necessary.

• Work together on internal platform roadmaps and convert organizational objectives into technical projects.

• Share responsibility for the reliability, maintainability, security, and evolution of production code.

• Engage in incident response, production support, troubleshooting, and remediation activities.

• Enhance availability, alerting, performance, capacity, cost management, recovery, and technical debt practices.

• Transform operational insights into platform and usage enhancements.

⛳️ Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience as a full-stack software engineer delivering large-scale, distributed web applications.

• Proven ability to function as a strategic product thinker and community architect.

• Proficient in designing and developing scalable backend services and RESTful APIs.

• Hands-on experience in developing user-facing or internal web applications using modern frontend frameworks such as React or Vue.

• Knowledge of UI/UX and accessibility best practices.

• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts, automation, and software delivery pipelines.

• Experience with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or equivalent tools.

• Practical experience in contributing to or managing internal developer platforms, enablement tools, or shared services.

• Strong background in AWS services, including EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, or EKS.

• Experience in deploying applications using Docker and Kubernetes.

• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform.

• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and messaging systems.

• Ability to troubleshoot, debug, and optimize performance across the entire stack.

• Comfortable working in Agile, cross-functional, distributed, or self-directed teams.

• Excellent communication skills to convey technical concepts, designs, and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans.

• Employer-funded 10% retirement contribution.

• Paid parental and caregiver leave.

• 22 days of paid time off.

• 11 paid holidays.

• Up to 12 sick days.

• Wellness benefits.

• Onboarding, mentorship, and ongoing learning support.