Mid/Senior Platform Engineer

Careerswift

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a passionate Platform Engineer with a strong focus on building technical platforms and shared infrastructure used across multiple engineering teams. You will join a high-performing platform engineering team responsible for foundational systems including internal libraries, shared backend services, CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and observability. This role involves significant ownership and collaboration, with a focus on improving engineering velocity, reliability, and scalability across the organization. You will build scalable cloud-native platforms using technologies such as TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and AWS. You’ll collaborate with distributed cross-functional teams to deliver reliable and maintainable solutions.

Requirements

3+ years of experience building backend services using TypeScript and Node.js, ideally with NestJS in production environments.
Strong software engineering fundamentals including understanding of CPU, memory, I/O, concurrency, and performance bottlenecks.
Experience using AI-assisted developer tools effectively while maintaining strong engineering judgment.
Working knowledge of PostgreSQL including schema design, migrations, and query analysis.
Familiarity with AWS services such as DynamoDB, SQS, Kinesis, and Lambda.
Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, including troubleshooting and release workflows.
Experience with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, or similar.
Ability to learn new tools, technologies, and domains quickly.
Commitment to writing maintainable, reusable, and high-quality code.

Nice To Haves

Additional backend/platform engineering experience with ownership of systems in production environments.
Experience with PostgreSQL performance tuning including indexing strategies, query plans, and migration management.
Experience designing and implementing CI/CD strategies including release flows, artifact promotion, and security considerations.
Experience building observability practices including SLIs/SLOs, dashboards, and alerting systems.
Ability to lead technical discussions, mentor engineers, and influence engineering standards across teams.
Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Ability to work effectively with globally distributed teams.
Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality.
Strong problem-solving abilities and customer-focused thinking.
Comfortable working in fast-paced environments with multiple stakeholders and time zones.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain shared libraries and SDKs for areas such as authentication, logging, configuration, API clients, and error handling.
Develop and support shared backend services and internal APIs.
Improve developer experience through service templates, scaffolding, and local development tooling.
Design and maintain CI/CD workflows with a focus on reliability, security, and speed.
Build and maintain observability tooling including metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting.
Collaborate with product engineering teams to troubleshoot complex issues, support integrations, and review technical designs.
Participate in on-call rotations and incident response.