Senior Platform Services Engineer

RADIANT LOGISTICS INC • Renton, WA

4d • $93,000 - $115,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Platform Services Engineer owns the shared platform foundation for Radiant’s digital products, including authentication and authorization for internal and external users, observability using OpenTelemetry, common services and API contracts, and delivery guardrails. This is a hands-on role focused on establishing these core capabilities and turning engineering judgment into paved paths and automated safeguards that help distributed teams deliver production-grade work reliably with less manual oversight. The initial platform charter centers on authentication, observability, shared services, and delivery guardrails; the engineer triages requests and sequences or defers work outside that scope. The position operates independently and involves significant discretion and decision-making.

Radiant platforms carry shipment data for transactions subject to ITAR and CUI requirements. The engineer builds platform controls to ensure that only U.S. persons can access this data and that access is enforced, auditable, and protected in telemetry, shared services, and delivery processes. U.S. person status is verified before employment.

The position is full-time and on-site in Renton, Washington, with a schedule of at least eight hours per day and occasional overlap with distributed team members. The work takes place in a professional, climate-controlled office with usually moderate noise. The employee regularly sits for extended periods and uses a computer keyboard, mouse, and other office equipment; occasional physical activities include standing, walking, reaching, and lifting or moving up to 15–25 pounds. The role offers a base salary range of $93,000–$115,000 annually, with individual pay determined by job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. person as defined under ITAR; status will be verified before employment.
• At least 5 years of software engineering experience, including significant time in platform, infrastructure, or backend/services roles.
• Deep hands-on expertise in authentication and authorization, including OAuth2/OIDC, SSO, and token and session models such as Cognito, Okta, or Auth0, serving internal and external users.
• Hands-on experience implementing OpenTelemetry and observability capabilities (tracing, metrics, and logging) and establishing them as shared standards.
• Proven experience designing and operating shared services, platform-as-a-product, or API/BFF contracts consumed by multiple teams.
• Strong CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud experience with AWS and/or Azure, including automated quality and security gates.
• Track record of setting technical standards, reviewing code, and mentoring engineers.
• Excellent written communication and discipline working asynchronously with distributed teams.
• Proficient verbal and written English communication.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, IT, or a related field.
• Familiarity with React/TypeScript front-end platforms, backend-for-frontend patterns, or design-system infrastructure.
• Experience enabling distributed teams through guardrails rather than manual oversight.
• Experience with AI-assisted developer tools, such as coding agents or AI code review.
• Domain experience in logistics, supply chain, or transportation management systems.
• Experience integrating with complex or legacy enterprise systems.
• Security and compliance experience involving PII, customer, and partner data.
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, and modern collaboration tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own shared authentication and authorization for internal employees and external customers or partners.
• Own shared observability capabilities, including OpenTelemetry instrumentation, distributed tracing, metrics, logging, and standards for product teams.
• Build and productize self-service, documented, versioned common platform services and API/BFF contracts for use across product teams.
• Establish CI/CD pipelines, paved-path templates, and automated quality guardrails, including type safety, linting, testing, security scanning, and AI-assisted code review.
• Define and maintain integration contracts with existing and legacy enterprise systems, abstracting their complexity from product teams.
• Provide technical leadership, architecture guidance, and code review as the team grows, aligning contributions with platform standards.
• Partner with the Product & Experience Lead on feasibility and front-end platform and design-system infrastructure.
• Set technical standards and mentor engineers to improve the team’s overall quality.
• Triage incoming requests and sequence or defer work beyond the core platform scope of authentication, observability, shared contracts, and guardrails.
• Perform other platform and engineering tasks as assigned.
• Enforce U.S. person eligibility for anyone accessing shipment data for ITAR- and CUI-controlled transactions.
• Represent U.S. person status in authentication and authorization so platform controls enforce data access restrictions.
• Prevent observability traces, metrics, and logs from exposing ITAR/CUI shipment data to unauthorized people, using measures such as redaction, segregated telemetry storage, and restricted tool access.
• Build CI/CD and shared-service guardrails that detect and block unauthorized exposure of ITAR/CUI data, and establish audit logging of access as a platform standard.
• Work with HR, Security, DevOps, product teams, and integration-service owners to confirm eligibility before access is granted and revoke access promptly after role changes or departures.
• Support compliance reviews and audits; immediately escalate and help lead responses to suspected unauthorized access or data exposure.

Benefits

• Medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
• Health Savings Account with employer contributions.
• Flexible Spending Account options for medical and dependent care.
• Company-provided life insurance.
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match.
• Paid time off for vacation, sick leave, and company-observed holidays.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: High school or GED