Senior Platform Engineer: Developer Productivity

GovTech Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Employee wellness programs

Comprehensive leave benefits

Job summary

GovTech Singapore is seeking a Senior/Software Engineer to build and operate the Developer Productivity Platform. This role combines platform product thinking with backend engineering to improve the government’s software development capabilities.

Your responsibilities include designing developer-facing abstractions, enhancing service reliability, and improving the overall developer experience through collaboration and effective tooling.

As an equal opportunity employer, GovTech fosters an inclusive workplace and provides competitive benefits focused on work-life balance.

Qualifications

• Strong engineering fundamentals with a focus on building secure software.
• Ability to address abstract problems and deliver high-quality solutions.
• Conduct clear communication with various teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design developer-focused abstractions and platform services.
• Improve service reliability, observability, and developer experience.
• Collaborate with tenant teams for adequate operational workflows.

Skills

High-quality software development

Debugging and reasoning skills

Effective communication and collaboration

Initiative in improving reliability and security

Understanding of public good and national infrastructure

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD tools

Job description

GovTech is the lead agency driving Singapore’s Smart Nation initiatives and public sector digital transformation. As the Centre of Excellence for Infocomm Technology and Smart Systems (ICT & SS), GovTech develops the Singapore Government’s capabilities in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, Application Development, Smart City Technology, Digital Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity.

At GovTech, we offer you a purposeful career to make lives better where we empower our people to master their craft through robust learning and development opportunities all year round.

Play a part in Singapore’s vision to build a Smart Nation and embark on your meaningful journey to build tech for public good. Join us to advance our mission and shape your future with us today!

Learn more about GovTech at tech.gov.sg.

[What you will be working on]

Govtech Developer Productivity & Services Programme is at the heart of how the Singapore Government builds software. We run the tools and platforms that thousands of government developers rely on every day, from tool discovery via Government Developer Portals and CLIs, to AI-assisted and AI-native development and validations with AI Coding Assistants, agents skills, CI/CD orchestrations, to data-driven insights and analysis on developer productivity, to friction-less previews and deployments with Containers and Kubernetes-based platforms.

On top of just the tools our programme provide, our Central Product Marketplace enables agencies to Discover, Evaluate, Subscribe, Bill and Operate all Govtech Products from a single platform.

We are seeking a Senior / Software Engineer who gets excited about building and operating the next-gen, highly scalable and resilient Developer Productivity Platform. In this role, you won’t just write code; This role combines platform product thinking, backend engineering, developer experience, and production engineering.

As a Developer Productivity Platform Engineer, You Will

Build Platform Software and Abstractions

• Design developer-facing abstractions over various components such as cloud-native services (e.g. AWS, kubernetes), CI/CD toolings, observability, and security controls, reduce the need for tenant teams to understand underlying details before they can ship safely.
• 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.
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools and workflows, such as Claude Code, spec-driven development, reusable skills, and automated review/test loops, to accelerate delivery while preserving engineering quality.
  
  

Improve Service Reliability and Observability

• Design reusable CI/CD workflows for safe, auditable, repeatable deployments.
• Build observability defaults including dashboards, alerts, SLOs, and the Four Golden Signals.
• Improve backup, restore, rollback, incident response, and recovery patterns through better software, automation, defaults, and documentation.
• Design and implement reusable provisioning modules and platform interfaces that address real infrastructure use cases while encoding standards and guardrails.
  
  

Improve the Developer Experience

• Build self-service workflows for provisioning, deployment, environment management, observability, and operational readiness.
• Use delivery and developer experience signals, such as DORA, SPACE, and DX Core 4-style metrics, to understand friction and prioritize targeted platform improvements.
  
  

Collaborate With Tenants and Platform Stakeholders

• Work with tenant teams to understand friction in their deployment and operations workflows.
• Produce clear documentation, examples, runbooks, and onboarding material.
• Gather feedback from real usage and improve platform capabilities iteratively.
  
  

[What we are looking for]

We value strong engineering fundamentals.

We’re Looking For People Who

• 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, cybersecurity specialists, and partner agencies
• Take initiative to drive improvements in reliability and security
• Care deeply about public good, and understand the responsibility of working on critical national infrastructure
• We value ability, initiative, communication, and strong integrity.
  
  

What we offer you:

GovTech is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that values diverse voices and perspectives, as we believe that diversity is the foundation to innovation.

Our employee benefits are based on a total rewards approach, offering a holistic and market-competitive suite of perks. These include leave benefits to meet your work-life needs and employee wellness programs.

We champion flexible work arrangements (subject to your job role) and trust that you will manage your own time to deliver your best, wherever you are, and whatever works best for you.

Learn more about life inside GovTech at go.gov.sg/GovTechCareers.

Stay connected with us on social media at go.gov.sg/ConnectWithGovTech