Senior Platform Engineer - AI-Powered Internal Platform

SmartChoice International GCC; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

SmartChoice International GCC is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design and build the shared platform foundation powering multiple engineering teams in production. You will own platform architecture, backend services, developer tooling and APIs, integrating AI-enabled systems while prioritising developer experience and reliability across cloud-native environments.

You will help establish standards, interfaces and patterns that teams reuse, accelerating delivery while upholding security and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software, backend, platform or infrastructure engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design and build shared platform services, APIs, SDKs and engineering tooling.
• Develop orchestration capabilities for applications involving multiple services, tools, models and workflows.
• Build reliable interfaces that allow teams to consume shared capabilities consistently.
• Integrate AI models and supporting services into reusable platform capabilities.
• Develop secure, identity-aware services with authentication and authorisation enforced at the appropriate layer.
• Create reusable templates, libraries, examples and automation to accelerate application development.
• Provide common capabilities for both interactive applications and programmatic consumers.
• Establish standards for API design, service contracts, versioning, testing and observability.
• Build tracing, monitoring and operational controls into platform services.
• Work closely with infrastructure and application teams to ensure services are scalable, reliable and secure.
• Identify recurring engineering problems and turn them into reusable platform solutions.
• Improve developer experience by reducing friction and increasing self-service across engineering teams.
• Review code, document technical decisions and help establish engineering standards across the platform.

Skills

Python

Go

APIs

SDKs

Distributed systems

CI/CD

AWS

Terraform

Crossplane

OIDC/SSO

Authentication

Developer experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

LangGraph

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Terraform

Crossplane

Job description

SmartChoice International GCC is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design and build the shared platform foundation powering multiple engineering teams in production. You will own platform architecture, backend services, developer tooling and APIs, integrating AI-enabled systems while prioritising developer experience and reliability across cloud-native environments.

You will help establish standards, interfaces and patterns that teams reuse, accelerating delivery while upholding security and