Senior Software Platform Engineer

Qiddiya

Riyadh

On-site

SAR 350,000 - 550,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Qiddiya Digital is seeking a highly experienced Senior Expert of Software Engineer – Digital Platforms to take technical ownership of critical digital product domains across Qiddiya’s ecosystem. This senior IC role provides technical leadership to vendor teams, ensuring quality, resilience, security, and operational readiness of the platform.

The role focuses on eliminating black-box delivery, retaining knowledge within Qiddiya, and maintaining full control over digital platforms.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in CS, SE, IT, or related discipline.
Extensive software-engineering experience in lead/architect roles.
Strong hands-on engineering capability and ability to challenge implementation decisions.
Experience designing and operating large-scale, distributed, cloud-native platforms.

Responsibilities

Take end-to-end technical ownership of the assigned digital domain.
Define and maintain target architecture, engineering standards, and technical roadmap.
Provide hands-on technical leadership across design, implementation, integration, release, and production operations.
Lead and challenge vendor engineering teams, ensuring compliance with Qiddiya Digital standards.
Review and approve architecture, APIs, data models, integrations, code quality, and major technical decisions.
Validate vendor deliverables using clear acceptance criteria and measurable technical evidence.
Ensure solutions are resilient, reliable, scalable, secure, observable, maintainable, and cost efficient.
Define and monitor technical KPIs, service-level objectives, availability, latency, recovery, and performance targets.
Ensure automated testing, CI/CD controls, monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting are in place.
Validate release plans, rollout strategies, rollback procedures, capacity testing, disaster recovery, and production readiness.
Lead technical incident management, root-cause analysis, and permanent remediation.
Identify and manage technical debt, architectural risks, recurring incidents, and operational weaknesses.
Maintain architecture documentation, technical decisions, runbooks, and support procedures.
Drive knowledge transfer to ensure Qiddiya can operate and evolve the platform.
Promote reusable capabilities and common engineering practices across digital assets.