Platform Engineer - AI-Driven DevTools & Marketplace

GovTech Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Leave benefits

Employee wellness programs

Job summary

GovTech Singapore is seeking a Senior / Software Engineer to help build and operate the next‑gen Developer Productivity & Services Platform — combining frontend, backend, developer experience, and production engineering to accelerate delivery with AI-assisted tooling.

You will design platform abstractions over cloud-native services, CI/CD, observability and security; deliver a unified web interface and CLIs; and collaborate across platform engineering, product and design to enable agencies to

Qualifications

• Demonstrate the ability to build high-quality, secure software.
• Think clearly about abstract problems, with strong debugging and reasoning skills.
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with engineers, policy officers, UX teams, and cybersecurity specialists.
• Take initiative to drive improvements in reliability and security.
• Growth mindset and willingness to share knowledge to grow together with the team.
• Able to grasp business domain concepts and set appropriate technical directions at the right level of abstraction.
• Care deeply about public good, and understand the responsibility of working on critical national infrastructure.
• We value ability, initiative, communication, and strong integrity.

Responsibilities

• Design platform abstractions over cloud-native services (e.g. cloud, Kubernetes), CI/CD toolings, observability, and security controls, to marketplace platform services such as billing and subscriptions.
• Develop platform services, APIs, CLIs, infrastructure automation, and internal tooling that make complex infrastructure easier and safer to consume.
• Define stable interfaces, versioning approaches, error handling, testing strategies, and documentation for platform components.
• Create the unified platform where users discover, evaluate, access, and manage available services from a single interface – web-based, CLIs, or MCPs.
• Design seamless end-to-end workflows for user access management, self-service configuration, operational transparency, and ongoing oversight.
• Build robust search, filtering, and personalization features that help users navigate the ecosystem and surface capabilities quickly.
• Enable teams to launch and integrate services faster by providing standardized capabilities — access provisioning, activity tracking, and UI embedding.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand integration, deployment, and operations needs.

Skills

Software engineering

Debugging & reasoning

Collaboration

Reliability & security

Public sector impact

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

GovTech Singapore is seeking a Senior / Software Engineer to help build and operate the next‑gen Developer Productivity & Services Platform — combining frontend, backend, developer experience, and production engineering to accelerate delivery with AI-assisted tooling.

You will design platform abstractions over cloud-native services, CI/CD, observability and security; deliver a unified web interface and CLIs; and collaborate across platform engineering, product and design to enable agencies to