Staff Security Platform Engineer (IC5)

Ontrac Solutions • Chicago, IL

13h • Remote

About The Position

OnTrac is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Staff Security Platform Engineer (IC5) to join a contractor program supporting a critical customer engagement. The customer requires one Staff (IC5) engineer to support day-to-day backend integrations and policy platform use cases. This role is ideal for a hands-on backend engineer who can take ownership of integration work on a policy platform, set technical direction for a small delivery team, and become productive on a customer codebase with minimal ramp-up. The successful candidate will work closely with the delivery team and customer stakeholders, including the customer's tech lead, to ensure project success from initial definition through final delivery.

Requirements

• Core, hands-on experience building backend services and integrations in Golang
• Core experience with MongoDB as an application data store, including data modeling and query design
• Core experience with Snowflake, including loading data into it and querying it from backend systems
• Core experience building and running services on AWS
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining integrations between backend systems and supporting platform use cases alongside a customer engineering team
• Ability to lead technical design, review code, and set direction for other engineers on an engagement
• Ability to communicate clearly with a customer tech lead and translate day-to-day requests into well-scoped engineering work

Nice To Haves

• Prior work on a security or policy platform team
• Prior experience as an embedded contractor on a customer engineering team

Responsibilities

• Support day-to-day backend integration work and policy platform use cases for the customer, delivering changes in Golang against MongoDB, Snowflake, and AWS-hosted services
• Own technical design for assigned integrations from definition through delivery, and document design decisions for the customer tech lead and delivery stakeholders
• Deliver work to the customer's technical standards, following the code review, testing, and deployment practices established by the customer's team
• Provide technical direction and code review for the Senior Security Platform Engineer (IC4) staffed on the same engagement
• Onboard rapidly and begin contributing to integration work early in the engagement
• Communicate progress, risks, and blockers promptly to the customer tech lead and delivery stakeholders

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed