Hybrid Platform Engineer - Backend, Azure & Kubernetes

Bain & Company; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

401(k) matching

Health insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Bain & Company is seeking a Platform Engineer to help develop and operate backend services powering the Bain Diligence Platform (BDP). You’ll build REST APIs in FastAPI, manage Postgres schemas, and use Redis for caching, all within a secure, observable, production‑grade system.

Join a hybrid Atlanta team, contribute to CI/CD with GitHub Actions, and collaborate across Security, Infra, and Platform squads to deliver scalable, reliable services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
• 2+ years of experience building backend services, APIs, or platform components in a production or near-production environment.
• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining backend services or APIs with an emphasis on reliability and correctness.
• Experience contributing to REST APIs and working with relational databases (Postgres preferred), including basic schema evolution and migration workflows.
• Exposure to containerised development and deployment practices (Docker) and familiarity with operating services in Kubernetes environments (Azure / AKS in practice).
• Exposure to authentication and authorisation concepts (JWT, RBAC, OIDC/SAML — Entra ID / Azure AD in practice) and interest in building secure‑by‑default services.
• Proficient Python development skills; able to build FastAPI services using Pydantic, write tests with pytest, and follow linting/type‑checking standards (Ruff, mypy), and manage environments and dependencies with uv.
• Working knowledge of Postgres fundamentals: schema design basics, indexing concepts, and safe migration practices with Alembic.
• Working knowledge of Redis patterns for caching and session storage; understands basic failure modes and operational considerations.
• Familiarity with event‑driven integration patterns applied where asynchronous behaviour adds value (change feeds / domain events, consumers, retries, idempotency); able to implement producers/consumers within established conventions.
• Docker proficiency for local development and building container images; understands non‑root execution and basic image hygiene.
• Kubernetes fundamentals: deployments/services, pod lifecycle basics, and how health checks and resource limits affect service behaviour; able to work with Helm values and charts on AKS, including blue/green deployments.
• Observability fundamentals: structured logging, tracing concepts, and emitting metrics and APM traces via Datadog for service health; awareness of MLflow for evaluating AI features.
• Security fundamentals: understands least‑privilege access, secret‑handling basics, and common authN/authZ concepts; follows established patterns for JWT and RBAC integration, Entra ID, and Azure Key Vault.

Responsibilities

• Develop backend features and service endpoints in existing platform services under guidance from senior engineers.
• Build and maintain REST APIs in FastAPI using clear contracts and robust input validation.
• Write and update Postgres schemas and Alembic migrations with safe, backwards‑compatible changes.
• Use Redis for caching and session storage following established conventions.
• Implement event‑driven integrations where beneficial and ensure consistent schema usage.
• Add instrumentation: structured logs, OpenTelemetry spans, and Datadog metrics.
• Maintain Helm chart values and Kubernetes manifests for AKS deployments; support blue/green deployments.
• Contribute to Terraform infrastructure for Azure across environments; participate in CI/CD pipelines.
• Triage and resolve production issues; participate in on‑call rotation; update runbooks and docs.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

Postgres

Redis

Docker

Kubernetes

JWT / Entra ID

Observability

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Terraform

Azure AKS

Cloudsmith

Job description

Bain & Company is seeking a Platform Engineer to help develop and operate backend services powering the Bain Diligence Platform (BDP). You’ll build REST APIs in FastAPI, manage Postgres schemas, and use Redis for caching, all within a secure, observable, production‑grade system.

Join a hybrid Atlanta team, contribute to CI/CD with GitHub Actions, and collaborate across Security, Infra, and Platform squads to deliver scalable, reliable services.