Software Engineer (Developer Platform)

Csit; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

CSIT is seeking a software engineer to join its developer platform team in Singapore. You will help build and maintain the toolchain, cloud services, and automation that accelerate developer productivity.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, implement APIs, and drive improvements in scalability and reliability across our private cloud and services.

Qualifications

• Background in computer science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of software development experience in one or more general purpose languages (e.g. Python, Java).
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with API design principles and building/maintaining APIs.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to development and maintenance of software toolchain, services, and automation on cloud infrastructure.
• Design, build, and maintain features and automation for the developer platform (cloud services and APIs).
• Collaborate with engineers across the stack to improve software delivery performance.
• Coordinate with platform and infra teams to ensure integration within private cloud.
• Write clean code, participate in code reviews, and provide feedback to engineers.
• Improve availability, performance, and monitoring for platform and infrastructure.

Skills

Programming languages (Python, Java)

DevOps / SRE experience

Distributed systems design

Education

Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

CSIT develops products to advance the national security interests of Singapore. We use our products in a wide range of use‑cases, including but not limited to Counter‑terrorism and Computer Network Defence.

Software product development is an involved process. Our product teams need to be well supported with an integrated platform and infrastructure that enable them to deliver software quickly and efficiently. We are looking for talented platform engineers that are passionate about developer experience to join us in building and expanding this foundational platform that accelerates our developers’ productivity.

Responsibilities

• As a software engineer in our dynamic developer platform team, you will contribute to the development and maintenance of software toolchain, services, and automation on our cloud infrastructure to aid our engineers in software development. You will be an engineers’ engineer, collaborating closely with product teams to ensure an excellent software development experience.
• Design, build, and maintain features and automation for our developer platform, which includes a range of cloud services and APIs used by our developers to build and deploy exciting applications.
• Work with engineers across our entire software development stack to improve software delivery performance.
• Collaborate with other platform and infra teams to ensure seamless integration between our developer platform and other services in our private cloud.
• Write clean code, participate in code reviews, and provide feedback to other engineers.
• Proactively improve availability, performance, efficiency, monitoring and emergency response for our platform and infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Background in computer science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 2 years of experience in software development using one or more general purpose programming languages (e.g. Python, Java).
• Experience working with containerization technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with API design principles, and experience building and maintaining APIs.
• Experience working on developer‑facing systems, cloud services, infrastructure automation, or in a DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) role.
• Experience in the design and operation of large‑scale distributed systems.

As CSIT is an agency under the Ministry of Defence (Singapore), only Singapore Citizens will be considered.