Senior Platform Engineer - Scalable Cloud & Infra

Monroe Consulting Group; Malaysia; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Monroe Consulting Group, an Executive Recruitment firm, partners with a leading organisation in the Information Technology sector to hire a Senior Platform Engineer in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The role will design, build, and evolve core platform infrastructure powering enterprise-grade digital products and intelligent software solutions.

You will drive scalability, reliability, and engineering excellence by implementing foundational systems, setting technical standards, and guiding platform

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline.
• 4-8 years of professional backend/infrastructure/platform or distributed systems experience.
• Proven experience designing and operating production-grade distributed systems.
• Experience in cloud-native environments (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Ability to work independently and make sound technical decisions in complex environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve core platform components and subsystems.
• Own architecture, implementation, testing, and long-term maintainability.
• Establish standards for code quality, testing, observability, and reliability.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and guide platform evolution.
• Address scalability, fault tolerance, and cost optimisation for large-scale workloads.

Skills

Backend systems

Cloud-native

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Docker

API design

Distributed systems

Go/Python/Java/TS

Data processing

AI infrastructure awareness

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/CE

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Job description

Monroe Consulting Group, an Executive Recruitment firm, partners with a leading organisation in the Information Technology sector to hire a Senior Platform Engineer in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The role will design, build, and evolve core platform infrastructure powering enterprise-grade digital products and intelligent software solutions.

You will drive scalability, reliability, and engineering excellence by implementing foundational systems, setting technical standards, and guiding platform