Senior Digital Platform Engineer

Caterpillar•Chicago, IL

10d•$112,710 - $183,140•Onsite

About The Position

Join the Digital Marketing Enablement – Platform Engineering team within Cat Digital to build, operate, and continuously improve enterprise digital experience platform capabilities. The role develops and supports solutions across Adobe Edge Delivery Services (EDS), Vercel, Uniform, AEM Assets, Cloud Manager, CI/CD pipelines, CDN, and cloud technologies. Working with product owners, architects, developers, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams, the engineer improves platform reliability, performance, security, maintainability, and developer experience. The role combines hands-on software engineering with platform operations, modernization, automation, and incident resolution in an agile environment. The position is required to be onsite five days a week in Chicago, Illinois; Peoria, Illinois; Denver, Colorado; or Dallas, Texas. Relocation assistance and visa sponsorship are not available. The advertised summary pay range is $112,710 to $183,140. Employment is conditioned on successful completion of a drug screen.

Requirements

Working knowledge of decision-making processes and related tools and techniques, with the ability to analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Working knowledge of effective communication concepts, tools, and techniques, including accurately transmitting, receiving, and interpreting ideas, information, and needs.
Extensive experience with software development tools and activities, and the ability to produce software products or systems in line with product requirements.
Working knowledge of software integration processes and functions, including designing, developing, and maintaining interfaces and links to alternative platforms and software packages.
Extensive experience in software product design and the ability to convert market requirements into software product design.
Working knowledge of software product technical aspects and the ability to design, configure, and integrate them.
The candidate must be in Chicago, IL; Peoria, IL; Denver, CO; or Dallas, TX, and work onsite five days a week.
Successful completion of a drug screen is required as a condition of employment.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated software development and platform engineering experience in enterprise digital environments.
Relevant education or equivalent practical experience; an advanced degree is a plus, not a prerequisite.
Hands-on experience with several of Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Adobe Edge Delivery Services (EDS), Vercel, Next.js, Uniform, Akamai or another enterprise CDN, edge computing, and AWS.
Experience operating and supporting cloud-based digital experience platforms, including monitoring, observability, automation, incident response, root cause analysis, and service restoration.
Working knowledge of modern web development using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and Web Components, as well as CI/CD and cloud deployment practices.
Ability to collaborate across product, engineering, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams while advancing operational best practices, governance, change management, and service excellence.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, integrate, and support scalable digital experience platform capabilities across EDS, Vercel, Uniform, AEM Assets, Cloud Manager, CI/CD pipelines, CDN, and related cloud technologies.
Improve platform reliability, security, performance, maintainability, monitoring, and observability through sound engineering practices and automation.
Lead or contribute to incident resolution, root cause analysis, service restoration, and follow-through improvements for business-critical digital applications.
Partner with product, architecture, engineering, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams to deliver platform enhancements, integrations, cloud migration, and modernization work.
Contribute to code quality, testing, technical documentation, governance, change management, and agile delivery practices.