Platform Engineer IV

Capital Group•Charlotte, NC

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the architecture, development, and scaling of our Internal Developer Platform (IDP) powered by Backstage. In this role, you will take full technical ownership of the platform as a product to drastically lower cognitive load for our engineering and development teams. Your primary mission is to establish secure, highly automated "golden paths" that empower the developers to create, deploy, and monitor workloads and services adhering to standards through self-service capabilities that you develop.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in platform engineering or DevOps, with hands-on production experience building, customizing, deploying, and supporting Spotify Backstage.
Strong proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and React for developing frontend plugins, as well as Node.js/Express for backend plugin development.
Strong proficiency in Python and Bash for automation and scripting.
Extensive production experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS.
Proven track record of developing custom Backstage plugins and integrations.
Solid DevOps foundation, including Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
Experience working with authentication frameworks, Single Sign-On (SSO), and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).
Experience working with Backstage MCP actions.
Strong understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), software quality, reliability, and operational standards.
Strong problem-solving abilities, a passion for mentoring others, and a product mindset focused on enhancing the developer experience.

Responsibilities

Architect, build, scale and operate the company's Internal Developer Platform using Backstage.
Develop and maintain custom Backstage plugins, software templates (Scaffolder), and the software catalog.
Integrate cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring tools directly into the Backstage UI.
Design robust, secure, and scalable microservices and APIs that power the core platform.
Collaborate with platform, cloud, security, application engineering teams and product manager to translate goals into concrete plugins and workflows.
Streamline developer workflows to reduce cognitive load and deployment friction.
Evangelize the platform across engineering teams and drive high adoption rates.
Create golden paths for software delivery, testing, and deployment.
Gather feedback from engineers to continuously improve platform features and ease of use.
Ensure high availability, performance, and security of the Backstage instance and underlying services.
Monitor platform metrics, troubleshoot bottlenecks, and resolve system outages.
Automate platform deployments, updates, and maintenance tasks using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
Collaborate with security, compliance, and infrastructure teams to bake guardrails into golden paths.
Define and document platform standards, best practices, and architecture decisions.
Mentor junior and mid-level engineers on platform engineering principles and Backstage best practices.