Senior Platform Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of and enhance Localize's technical infrastructure, databases, and platform tools.

• Manage infrastructure across AWS and Cloudflare.

• Design, construct, test, and uphold backend services, APIs, and background processing workflows.

• Engage hands-on with the dashboard, public APIs, legacy workers, and BullMQ workers.

• Lead intricate product engineering tasks from requirement clarification and design to implementation, production validation, and operation.

• Contribute frontend modifications to deliver comprehensive customer-facing solutions.

• Utilize engineering judgment in data modeling, API contracts, asynchronous processing, and failure management.

• Identify and fix application performance and reliability challenges, including inefficient queries, queue bottlenecks, and search behavior.

• Enhance code quality via automated tests, code reviews, and incremental refactoring.

• Guide teammates on backend design, debugging, and sound operational development practices.

• Ensure the scalability, reliability, performance, and security of Redis and MongoDB data stores.

• Take charge of and refine deployment and release processes, such as automation, safe rollouts, and rollback strategies.

• Improve the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) through development environments, CI/CD, automated quality and security assessments, and release readiness.

• Direct infrastructure security and SOC 2 Type II compliance efforts.

• Operate technical controls, maintain audit-ready documentation, assist with audits, and address findings.

• Manage access, vulnerabilities, changes, logging, backups, and recovery protocols.

• Help lead incident response initiatives and conduct blameless post-incident reviews.

• Prioritize improvements to infrastructure and the SDLC based on customer impact, business priorities, and risk assessment.

• Monitor uptime and performance using tools like Datadog, ClickHouse, HyperDX, and others.

• Implement enhancements for infrastructure cost, reliability, and scalability.

• Keep thorough documentation and maps of infrastructure and dependencies.

• Improve Developer Experience.

• Learn and adopt technologies that enhance infrastructure efficiency and capabilities.

• Report directly to the Engineering Manager.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of engineering experience.

• A minimum of 4 years in a Platform Engineer position.

• Proficiency in managing and optimizing AWS infrastructure.

• Experience with Redis and MongoDB, encompassing configuration, monitoring, optimization, and backup management.

• Expertise in OpenTofu and Terragrunt infrastructure-as-code tools.

• Familiarity with manual or automated deployment and release management.

• Understanding of CI/CD processes and related tools.

• Practical experience in securing production infrastructure, including least-privilege access controls, vulnerability remediation, secrets management, and security monitoring.

• Capability to translate security and compliance needs into repeatable engineering practices.

• Experience in maintaining control-operation evidence and supporting SOC 2 Type II audit readiness and remediation.

• Proven track record of enhancing the SDLC alongside product engineers.

• A customer-centric, business-aligned mindset.

• Skills in optimizing infrastructure and application performance, reliability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.

• Senior-level backend engineering experience in designing, shipping, and maintaining production features and services.

• Strong expertise in Node.js and JavaScript/TypeScript, including API development, asynchronous programming, automated testing, and production debugging.

• Experience in designing application data models and reliable background jobs, featuring safe retries, idempotency, and failure recovery.

• Ability to assess application, database, and queue performance and accuracy.

• Proficient in collaborating across backend and frontend boundaries.

• Ability to communicate designs and trade-offs clearly and provide constructive feedback during code reviews.

• Proficiency in command-line scripting.

• Experience with disaster recovery planning, ensuring data integrity and availability during emergencies.

• Familiarity with APM and logging tools such as Datadog, New Relic, Sentry, or Kibana.

• Prior experience working remotely is essential.

• Nice-to-have: TypeScript, React, Mongoose, LESS.

• Nice-to-have: experience with production LLM integrations, prompt/context engineering, token management, RAG, embeddings, vector search, MCP, tool/function calling, and agents.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary.

• 401(k) plan with 4% matching.

• 100% company-funded health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Company-covered life insurance and AD&D insurance.

• Flexibility to work from anywhere in North America (100% remote).

• New MacBook (or computer of your preference).

• Monthly stipend for home internet expenses.

• Generous paid time off (PTO) package.

• Opportunities for professional growth.

• Healthy work-life balance.

• Comprehensive benefits package.