Platform Engineer: Design & Scale Core Backend Systems

Grip; Colombia; Presencial; COP 90.000.000 - 140.000.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Grip is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, and scale core backend services and platform infrastructure. You will shape foundational systems, make architecture decisions, and enable fast, secure deployments using CI/CD and IaC.

You will work with modern AI-assisted tools to accelerate shipping high-quality code, while strengthening observability, APIs, and cloud-based platforms across teams.

Formación

• 3-4+ years in platform, infrastructure, backend, DevOps, or SRE roles.
• Strong backend fundamentals and system design skills.
• Experience architecting scalable, reliable systems.
• Experience using AI coding tools to ship production code.
• Cloud platforms experience; Azure preferred.

Responsabilidades

• Design, build, and evolve core backend services and platform infrastructure.
• Make foundational architecture and system design decisions that scale.
• Leverage AI-assisted tools to write, review, and ship code efficiently.
• Own and improve CI/CD pipelines for 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 APIs.
• Implement observability — monitoring, logging, alerting, and tracing.
• Improve system reliability, availability, and performance across services.
• Lead or contribute to migrations and re-architecture.
• 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 fundamentals

System design

AI coding tools

Azure Cloud

Containerization

Infrastructure-as-Code

CI/CD pipelines

APIs - REST

API authentication

GraphQL

Python

Networking & Linux

Observability

Troubleshooting

On-call experience

Herramientas

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub Copilot

Grafana/Prometheus

Descripción del empleo

Grip is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, and scale core backend services and platform infrastructure. You will shape foundational systems, make architecture decisions, and enable fast, secure deployments using CI/CD and IaC.

You will work with modern AI-assisted tools to accelerate shipping high-quality code, while strengthening observability, APIs, and cloud-based platforms across teams.