Senior Platform Engineer

Qualifications

• Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 8+ years of industry experience in platform, infrastructure, or backend engineering
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with:
  • Envoy Proxy (xDS/ADS, ext_authz, HTTP/2, gRPC, WebSocket) and/or
  • Kong API Gateway (plugin development, DB-less mode, Admin API)
• Strong proficiency in Go (Golang), including concurrency patterns and distributed systems design
• Deep experience with Kubernetes (EKS and/or on-prem):
  • Helm, HPA, PodDisruptionBudgets, NetworkPolicy, namespace isolation
  • GitOps workflows (ArgoCD)
• Strong understanding of authentication & security protocols:
  • OAuth 2.0, OIDC, PKCE
  • mTLS, DPoP, session management patterns
• Experience with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego policy development
• Hands-on experience with observability tooling:
  • OpenTelemetry (traces, metrics, logs)
  • Dynatrace and Splunk SIEM
• Experience with data and messaging systems:
  • PostgreSQL (HA, pooling, PITR)
  • Kafka (MSK, Schema Registry, DLQ patterns)
• Familiarity with:
  • CDN/WAF platforms (Akamai, Cloudflare)
  • DNS routing (GeoDNS, GTM, health checks)
  • TLS lifecycle management (cert-manager, KMS/HSM)
• Strong foundation in networking (L3 L7), distributed systems, and algorithms
• Proven experience building high-throughput, low-latency, resilient systems