The Senior Platform Engineer role is responsible for contributing to the design, execution, and ongoing support of mission critical platforms that enable Streaming, Observability, Data & Analytics, and Developer Experience across the organization. Passionate and committed to collaborating to deliver highly scalable and redundant environment to drive our business objectives.

Delivery & Execution:

• Build and maintain systems, supporting millions of active users, with millions of daily API calls.
• Maintain uptime and uphold SLAs for the platform.
• Develop, modify, enhances and implement automation to support updates and patching.
• Monitor and troubleshoot moderate to complex platform quality issues.
• Lead or Assist in leading the implementation of security and advocate for data governance in the company.
• Ensure alignment to drive cross-platform consistency.
• Evaluate all High Availability elements for all platform capabilities.
• Eye towards reducing compute, bandwidth and storage costs.
• Understand CI/CD lifecycle.

Support & Enablement:

• Fields questions from other product teams or support teams
• Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams.
• Provides platform support for software running in production.
• Proactively monitors production Service Level Objectives for the platform
• Proactively reviews the Performance and Capacity of all aspects of production: code, infrastructure, data, and message processing.

Learning:

• Participates in learning activities around modern cloud architecture and design and development core practices (communities of practice)
• Proactively views articles, tutorials, and videos to learn about new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations.
• Reviews and discusses changes from more senior engineers to understand best practices and design patterns.
• Increases business acumen by learning about other parts of the business

Education and Experiences:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 5-7 years of experience
• Experience in a Linux or Unix based environment.
• Exposure to query optimization and troubleshooting.
• Exposure to REST and effective web service design
• Exposure to a cloud computing platform and the associated automation patterns they provide.
• Experience with Data and Analytics platforms.
• Experience with Agile Development and knowledge on Agile Deployment tools and versioning using Git or similar tools.
• Experience with observability and monitoring platforms.
• Experience with modern web application frameworks and tools such as Spring boot/UML/Struts/Spring
• Understanding of streaming and messaging platforms.

Desired Skills:

• Good Knowledge of Retail E-Commerce Domain
• Exposure to a CI/CD toolchain
• Understanding of modern microservice-based architectures and methodologies
• Exposure to 12-factor methodology and its benefits, and able to demonstrate appropriate patterns to more junior team members.
• Exposure to destructive testing methodologies, behavioral testing and tools
• Exposure to production systems design including High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Performance, Efficiency, and Security
• Exposure to defensive coding practices and patterns for high-availability.
• Experience with Apache Service Mix (or other ESB and Integration technologies)
• Eclipse Development Environments
• JEE/Java development including JSP, JSTL, Servlets, Java Beans, EJBs, JPA
• Web services, RESTful and/or Axis/SOAP
• Exposure to Apigee or API gateways.