Senior PHP Engineer — Build Scalable Search & Data Pipelines

EPAM Systems; Colombia; Presencial; COP 282.397.000 - 407.907.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Healthcare benefits

Unlimited LinkedIn Learning access

Global career opportunities

EU-aligned collaboration

Descripción de la vacante

EPAM is a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and development services. We are committed to having a positive impact on our customers, our employees, and our communities.

Here you will collaborate with multi-national teams, contribute to a myriad of innovative projects that deliver the most creative and cutting-edge solutions, and have an opportunity to continuously learn and grow. No matter where you are located, you will join a dedicated, creative, and diverse community

Formación

• 3+ years of software development experience.
• Extensive PHP experience in backend systems.
• Hands-on experience with a strongly typed backend language (Go, Java, or Scala).
• Proven leadership in designing and delivering resilient systems.
• Strong project ownership for complex performance and scalability work.
• Advanced SQL performance skills with queries, indexes, and schemas.
• Solid Elasticsearch skills in query optimization and index management.
• Practical distributed messaging experience with RabbitMQ or Kafka.
• Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• High initiative and problem-solving mindset.
• Growth mindset and ability to adapt to evolving challenges.
• Availability to work until 9 PM CET for EU-based schedules.
• English level B2 (Upper-Intermediate).

Responsabilidades

• Lead design and implementation of a resilient indexing pipeline.
• Build scalable PHP components for search and related services.
• Enforce platform limits to protect stability and ensure fair resource usage.
• Own complex data synchronization and system load challenges end to end.
• Define best practices for Elasticsearch mappings, queries, and monitoring.
• Improve observability to detect bottlenecks and prevent regressions.
• Provide technical guidance and recommendations to raise team standards.
• Optimize SQL queries, indexes, and schemas to improve performance.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to align on reliability and scalability goals.
• Support and participate in the team on-call rotation.
• Investigate production issues and drive root-cause fixes.
• Document decisions, runbooks, and operational playbooks to improve maintainability.

Conocimientos

PHP backend experience

Strong typed backend languages (Go/JS/

Herramientas

RabbitMQ

Kafka

Elasticsearch

Descripción del empleo

EPAM is a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and development services. We are committed to having a positive impact on our customers, our employees, and our communities.

Here you will collaborate with multi-national teams, contribute to a myriad of innovative projects that deliver the most creative and cutting-edge solutions, and have an opportunity to continuously learn and grow. No matter where you are located, you will join a dedicated, creative, and diverse community