Senior Platform Engineer (People Systems)

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Platform Engineer (People Systems)

• Focus: Configuration-driven platform engineering for People Systems

Description

Build and own components of a configuration-driven platform where data models, rules, workflows, permissions, screens, and reports are versioned configuration interpreted at runtime. Design secure, scalable, multi-tenant, event-driven services and APIs with strong correctness, observability, and CI/CD automation. Work AI-natively by integrating coding agents and LLM-enabled capabilities into testing and operator workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own configuration-driven platform components through production

• Make configuration safe to change with validated, versioned, previewable releases, controlled promotion, and rollback

• Embed security, tenancy, and privacy into the platform to prevent unsafe access

• Build event-driven services for high-concurrency, multi-tenant workloads

• Design APIs and contracts with clear versioning and compatibility checks

• Ensure interdependent components behave as one system via boundaries and contract enforcement

• Own correctness with tests, quality gates in the delivery pipeline, and thorough code review

• Diagnose and fix distributed-systems issues through root-cause remediation

• Operate systems with observability, deploy without downtime, and participate in on-call

• Implement AI-native workflows: generate/run/triage/maintain tests and quality gates using coding agents

• Build automation tools for development streamlining and performance tuning; integrate AI/ML for configuration recommendations, workload-aware scheduling, and LLM-powered operator interfaces

• Develop secure, versioned microservices exposing lifecycle operations as APIs; handle concurrency and partial failures gracefully

• Integrate application-management automation into CI/CD (automated testing, canary rollouts, rollback)

• Develop monitoring/alerting/health checks and self-healing mechanisms for known failure patterns

Requirements

• 8+ years proven professional software development experience (longer preferred)

• 6+ years proven Java or Kotlin experience, including concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization

• 8+ years proven mastery of OOP, data structures, algorithms, and software design patterns; deliver testable, maintainable, extensible backend code

• 6+ years experience with at least one modern frontend stack (e.g., React/Next.js) with LLM feature development; use TypeScript, Python, and JavaScript

• B.S. in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or related field, or equivalent professional experience

Benefits

• Build scalable, secure, resilient-by-design platform systems used for People operations at global scale

• Opportunity to influence technical strategy and make architectural tradeoffs balancing fast delivery with long-term platform health