Remote Platform Engineer - Semantic Discovery & Credentials

EPAM Systems; Portugal; Remote; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work hours

Remote work from Portugal

Job summary

EPAM Systems is seeking a Platform Engineer — Semantic Discovery & Credentials to work remotely from Portugal. You will build core capabilities for semantic discovery and secure credential management within the MCP Server Registry for an Enterprise Agent Development Platform, enabling intelligent MCP resource discovery via vector-based search and enterprise-grade secret handling.

You will design semantic discovery mechanisms, integrate Vault and AWS Secrets Manager, develop Python APIs for

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in platform or backend engineering roles.
• Hands-on experience with secrets management platforms such as Vault or AWS Secrets Manager.
• Experience implementing semantic or vector search (OpenSearch, pgvector, or equivalent).
• Strong Python skills for backend API design and integration.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement semantic discovery mechanisms for MCP servers using vector embeddings.
• Integrate Vault and AWS Secrets Manager for secure credential storage and retrieval.
• Develop and maintain Python APIs for credential lifecycle management and retrieval in runtime environments.
• Build indexing pipelines using OpenSearch or pgvector for semantic search and discovery.
• Collaborate on integrating semantic search with MCP orchestration workflows and developer tooling.

Skills

Backend engineering

Python

Security IAM

Secrets management

Semantic search

Tools

Vault (HashiCorp)

AWS Secrets Manager

OpenSearch

pgvector

AWS Bedrock

Job description

EPAM Systems is seeking a Platform Engineer — Semantic Discovery & Credentials to work remotely from Portugal. You will build core capabilities for semantic discovery and secure credential management within the MCP Server Registry for an Enterprise Agent Development Platform, enabling intelligent MCP resource discovery via vector-based search and enterprise-grade secret handling.

You will design semantic discovery mechanisms, integrate Vault and AWS Secrets Manager, develop Python APIs for