Senior Software Engineer Platform & Microservices Architecture

Truist Financial • Charlotte, NC

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About The Position

We are seeking a seasoned and hands-on Senior Software Engineer to lead the design and implementation of enterprise-grade microservices and platform capabilities that operate at global scale. This role is pivotal in building resilient, observable, and policy-compliant software systems that power mission-critical business functions. Leveraging technologies like Java, Python, Helm, Kubernetes, and event-driven architectures, you will deliver reusable software patterns with embedded controls to meet enterprise security, compliance, and risk management standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree and six to ten years of experience or equivalent education and software engineering training or experience.
• In-depth knowledge in information systems and ability to identify, apply, and implement best practices.
• Understanding of key business processes and competitive strategies related to the IT function.
• Ability to plan and manage projects and solve complex problems by applying best practices.
• Ability to provide direction and mentor less experienced teammates. Ability to interpret and convey complex, difficult, or sensitive information.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
• Experience in high-regulation industries (e.g., financial services, healthcare, automotive) with firsthand knowledge of compliance enforcement at code level.
• Experience with Open Policy Agent (OPA), Kyverno, or HashiCorp Sentinel for governance and control enforcement.
• Deep familiarity with enterprise system constraints including governance, scalability, compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, PCI, NIST), and regulated workloads.
• Familiarity with zero-trust security patterns, mutual TLS (mTLS), service mesh (e.g., Istio or Linkerd), and container vulnerability scanning tools.
• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong track record of enterprise-scale service delivery in production environments.
• Expert-level proficiency in Java and Python, with demonstrable experience building services deployed on Kubernetes using Helm and declarative configurations.
• Experience with event-driven patterns, including pub/sub, message queues, and streaming architectures.
• Contributions to internal frameworks or open-source tools that enable secure, scalable microservice development.
• Advanced understanding of platform resiliency, chaos engineering, and graceful degradation strategies under fault scenarios.
• Strong leadership presence in technical forums and the ability to drive architectural alignment across multiple teams.
• Strong understanding of platform architecture principles, multi-region deployments, and high-availability (HA) designs.
• Experience implementing policy-as-code in CI/CD pipelines and enforcing guardrails and operational risk controls via automated code and deployment policies.
• Proficient with GitOps, CI/CD pipelines (e.g., ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions), and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Kustomize, etc.).
• Working knowledge of container runtime security, runtime controls (e.g., SELinux, seccomp, AppArmor), and least privilege access models.
• Familiarity with SRE principles, including SLO/SLA/SI metrics and production incident response practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-scale, low-latency microservices in Java and Python that support enterprise platforms with stringent uptime, compliance, and observability requirements.
• Engineer event-driven architectures using Kafka or equivalent messaging platforms to enable asynchronous workflows, decoupled service communication, and scalable event sourcing.
• Develop and maintain Helm charts, Kubernetes manifests, and YAML-based configurations to deploy and manage cloud-native applications in production environments.
• Design and implement enterprise-scale reusable service patterns, including service discovery, distributed configuration, fault tolerance, and global failover strategies.
• Embed policy-as-code in CI/CD workflows using tools like OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno, or custom controls, enforcing security, compliance, and infrastructure governance at deploy time.
• Partner with security, compliance, and risk teams to codify controls into automated pipelines, ensuring software systems are audit-ready by default.
• Implement compliance-aware telemetry and alerting tied to controls such as data residency, encryption, access boundaries, and runtime immutability.
• Drive the adoption of platform-wide architectural standards for service-to-service communication, identity propagation, rate-limiting, and secret injection.
• Provide hands-on leadership in technical design reviews, deep dive troubleshooting, and performance tuning of distributed, containerized systems.
• Author and maintain technical documentation, platform onboarding guides, and reusable code templates to enable faster and safer developer onboarding.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment.
• Tax-preferred savings accounts and a 401k plan.
• No less than 10 days of vacation during the first year of employment, along with 10 sick days and paid holidays.
• Defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan may be available.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree