Senior Platform Engineer

Position Overview

Job Responsibilities

Build and maintain software applications in our suite of enterprise software products
Work with product managers and designers to brainstorm bottom-up solutions to novel problems
Collaborate with AI engineers to efficiently utilize commercial large language model (LLM) APIs
Continuously improve the code quality, extensibility, scalability, and test coverage of software projects
Make architecture and cloud-engineering decisions in conjunction with other engineers
Develop and improve infrastructure-as-code stacks, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring/observability tools
Improve internal developer tools, workflows, and best practices to enhance team efficiency
Provide consistent feedback to management regarding the quality of the team, the state of the tech stack, and relationships with stakeholders
Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across the entire application stack
Mentor junior team members
Participate in incident response and disaster recovery efforts
Leverage AI-assisted tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support day-to-day activities
Other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience as a software engineer
• Comfortable working with Python in core application code
• Experience building modern, cloud-native applications using serverless technology (API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, or similar)
• Interest in building enterprise software with deep customer empathy, taking pride in contributing to a world class end-to-end user experience
• Strong problem-solving, collaboration, teamwork and communication skills
• Eagerness to learn and adapt to new technologies and tools
• Proficiency in using relevant AI Tools in the SLDC (Cursor, GitHub Copilot) coding, and/or API integrations

Deep understanding of:

• Version control systems (Git)
• Relational databases and data modeling (Postgres preferred)
• Infrastructure as Code in AWS (CloudFormation, SAM)
• RESTful API design and documentation
• CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions or similar
• Containerization and orchestration (Docker, ECS)
• Enterprise-scale cloud engineering in AWS
• Modern software development lifecycle on an agile product team

Preferred Qualifications

Interest in team leadership and career growth
Experience building applications on top of LLMs using commercial APIs
Familiarity with Postgres, query optimization, and database indexing
Exposure to data science tooling in Python (numpy, scipy, scikit-learn, pandas)
Experience with monitoring and observability across deployments and tenants
Interest in application security and cloud security

Background checks will be conducted on an ongoing basis every 3 years or as needed for individuals in this role.

Agiloft offers a comprehensive benefits package for US employees including but not limited to the following:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Short term and long-term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non- overtime eligible) position.
• Paid parental leave
• Voluntary benefits including pet insurance

Originally posted on Himalayas