Platform Engineering Specialist

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

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and sustain web applications, API services, serverless functions, and scheduled background tasks for both front end and back end.

• Create custom RESTful APIs, middleware, and third-party integrations utilizing webhooks, websockets, and queues.

• Architect and manage databases, collaborating with data teams to enhance software performance.

• Take ownership of projects throughout the Software Development Life Cycle, from initial design to final deployment.

• Troubleshoot production issues, identifying root causes and differentiating code-related problems from data-related ones.

• Evaluate and optimize applications for performance and user experience.

• Review code and infrastructure modifications to uphold coding standards and engineering best practices.

• Manage a multi-account AWS organization, including IAM, networking, DNS, certificates, and account guidelines.

• Define and manage infrastructure as code for platform environments.

• Monitor and optimize cloud expenses and provide reports on them.

• Develop reusable GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines.

• Design environment promotion across development, sandbox, and production with automated validations.

• Automate application provisioning, including builds, databases, health checks, sign-in validations, and DNS.

• Oversee GitHub organization security, including access, branch, and Actions policies, AWS OIDC federation, and secret scanning.

• Incorporate security, secrets, and sensitive data scanning into delivery workflows.

• Implement standardized authentication and access control with a central identity provider.

• Establish logging, monitoring, and alerting across platform environments.

• Lead incident response efforts, identify root causes, and implement preventive measures.

• Maintain runbooks and documentation for the platform.

• Cross-train colleagues and prepare platform areas for handover.

• Collaborate with engineers, engage in technical design, architecture discussions, and roadmap planning.

• Create and manage Kanban tickets, participating in Agile Scrum grooming and planning sessions.

• Embrace emerging practices, including AI/LLM-assisted engineering workflows.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including full-stack production development, with at least 3 years focused on cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering.

• Proficient full-stack skills in TypeScript, JavaScript, or Python, with experience in front-end and back-end frameworks (NodeJS, NestJS, Vue/Nuxt, or similar).

• Experience in developing RESTful APIs, third-party integrations, and relational database designs (SQL).

• Extensive hands-on AWS experience: Organizations and multi-account configurations, IAM, VPC, ECS or other container services, RDS, CloudWatch, Route 53.

• Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation).

• Proven experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably with GitHub Actions.

• Experience with Docker and containerized deployments.

• Knowledge of secrets management and security scanning in the delivery pipeline.

• Experience implementing authentication and authorization across systems, ideally with a central identity provider (OIDC/OAuth2).

• Background in database administration, backups, and scaling in production environments.

• Demonstrated understanding of the secure and ethical use of LLMs in software development.

• Solid functional knowledge and hands-on coding experience.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for complex, multi-system challenges.

• Architectural mindset with the ability to design scalable, robust, and maintainable software solutions.

• Capacity to work collaboratively, communicate effectively, multitask, and prioritize in a fast-paced setting.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Flexible work hours and remote work options.

• Professional development opportunities and training.

• Collaborative and inclusive work environment.