Platform Engineer: AI-Driven Infra & APIs

Grip; Colombia; Presencial; COP 288.258.279 - 480.430.465; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Grip is seeking a Platform Engineer to design and maintain infrastructure, tooling, and backend systems that power our engineering teams and products. This role sits at the intersection of platform and backend work, shaping foundational systems and key architectural decisions while leveraging AI-assisted development tools to accelerate high-quality code delivery.

Expect to work on CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure via code, container platforms, and secure API ecosystems.

Formación

• 3-4+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, backend, DevOps, or SRE roles.
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals and system design skills.
• Experience architecting or rebuilding systems for scalability and reliability.
• Proven ability to use AI coding tools to ship production-quality code.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred).
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration.
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid working knowledge of APIs - RESTful, API gateways, authentication; GraphQL a plus.
• Proficiency in Python or another backend language.
• Understanding of networking, security, databases, and Linux systems.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools.
• Strong troubleshooting and reliability mindset.

Responsabilidades

• Design, build, and evolve core backend services and platform infrastructure.
• Make foundational architecture and system design decisions that scale.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to write, review, and ship code efficiently.
• Own and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, safe deployments.
• Manage and scale cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code.
• Build and maintain container orchestration platforms.
• Design, manage, and secure API gateways and internal/external API platforms.
• Implement and improve observability - monitoring, logging, alerting, and tracing.
• Improve system reliability, availability, and performance across services.
• Lead or contribute to migrations and re-architecture of existing systems.
• Automate manual operational processes and reduce toil.
• Partner with engineering teams to streamline development and deployment workflows.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident responses.

Conocimientos

Backend engineering

System design

Cloud platforms

AI coding tools

CI/CD pipelines

Linux

Networking & security

Herramientas

Azure

Container orchestration

CI/CD tooling

GitHub Copilot

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REST/GraphQL APIs

Descripción del empleo

Grip is seeking a Platform Engineer to design and maintain infrastructure, tooling, and backend systems that power our engineering teams and products. This role sits at the intersection of platform and backend work, shaping foundational systems and key architectural decisions while leveraging AI-assisted development tools to accelerate high-quality code delivery.

Expect to work on CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure via code, container platforms, and secure API ecosystems.