Lead Engineer, Cloud Platform

Jobs in JS; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 167,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

GlobalFoundries is seeking a Lead Full Stack Software Engineer to own and evolve our next-generation customer and partner engagement platform. In this hands-on role you will write code, shape architecture, and guide a small internal team along with an external contractor team delivering integrations.

You will oversee frontend and backend, manage deployments, perform code reviews, diagnose production incidents, and work with stakeholders to align requirements with a scalable design.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, CE, or related field.
• 5+ years of full-stack experience with production ownership of a customer-facing web app.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers, including distributed or contractor teams.
• Strong frontend (React/Vue/Angular) and backend (Python/Node.js) skills.
• Experience with REST APIs, authentication, state management, and responsive design.
• Experience with databases, caching, microservices, and application security.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD, and cloud deployment.
• Fluency in English (written and spoken).

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and roadmap for the customer-facing web platform.
• Review and approve codebases, manage releases and environments.
• Manage a small team of engineers including code reviews and mentorship.
• Coordinate with external contractor teams on integrations.
• Diagnose production incidents across cloud infra and auth systems.
• Design data migration and integration scripts with audit logging.
• Analyze platform using telemetry and implement UX improvements.
• Gather requirements and drive architectural decisions with stakeholders.
• Maintain documentation and reference implementations.

Skills

Full-stack development

Leadership / mentoring

React/Vue/Angular

Python/Node.js

REST APIs / authentication

Git / CI-CD

English fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or related field

Master's degree in CS/CE or related field

Job description

About GlobalFoundries:

GlobalFoundries is a leading full-service semiconductor foundry providing a unique combination of design, development, and fabrication services to some of the world’s most inspired technology companies. With a global manufacturing footprint spanning three continents, GlobalFoundries makes possible the technologies and systems that transform industries and give customers the power to shape their markets. For more information, visit www.gf.com.

Summary of Role:

We are seeking a Lead Full Stack Software Engineer to own and evolve our next-generation customer and partner engagement platform. In this hands-on individual-contributor role, you will write code, make architecture decisions, and directly guide a small internal team along with an external contractor team delivering integration work.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Own the technical architecture and roadmap for a customer- and partner-facing web platform, spanning frontend interfaces, backend APIs, authentication systems, and cloud infrastructure
• Serve as final technical reviewer and approver for the platform's codebases, including environment promotion and release management
• Directly manage a small team of full-time engineers, including code review, technical mentorship, and workload prioritization
• Direct and review deliverables from an external contractor team building third-party system integrations, ensuring quality and architectural consistency
• Diagnose and resolve production incidents across cloud infrastructure and identity/authentication systems, including root-cause analysis of infrastructure and integration failures
• Design and implement data migration and integration scripts between enterprise systems, with production-grade reliability, resumability, and audit logging
• Use tools and real user feedback to analyze and optimize the platform, including through performance monitoring and user experience improvements
• Interact with internal stakeholders and external partners to gather requirements, scope integrations, and drive architectural decisions based on user needs
• Help maintain documentation and reference implementations that customers and internal teams rely on

Other Responsibilities:

• Perform all activities in a safe and responsible manner and support all Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements and programs.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
• 5+ years of full-stack software engineering experience, including production ownership of a customer-facing web application
• Proven experience leading or mentoring engineers, including distributed or contractor teams
• Strong programming experience in a modern frontend framework (React, Vue.js, Angular, or similar) and a backend language/framework (Python, Node.js, or similar)
• Experience with REST APIs, authentication systems, state management, and responsive design
• Experience with databases, caching, microservices, and application security
• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation on cloud platforms
• Experience debugging complex, distributed web applications in production
• Fluency in English — written & verbal

Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field OR equivalent years in Software Engineering with progressive leadership scope.

• Experience managing or coordinating offshore/contractor engineering teams
• Experience with large-scale data migration projects between enterprise systems
• Experience with ticketing or service-management platform integrations via API
• Experience with enterprise identity/auth protocols (OAuth/OIDC, SAML, or similar)
• Experience in semiconductor, hardware, or other regulated enterprise environments

Expected Salary Range

$167,000.00 - $275,000.00

The exact Salary will be determined based on qualifications, experience and location.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at [e-mail] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.

An offer with GlobalFoundries is conditioned upon the successful completion of pre-employment conditions, as applicable, and subject to applicable laws and regulations.

GlobalFoundries is fully committed to equal opportunity in the workplace and believes that cultural diversity within the company enhances its business potential. GlobalFoundries goal of excellence in business necessitates the attraction and retention of highly qualified people. Artificial barriers and stereotypic biases detract from this objective and may be illegally discriminatory.

All policies and processes which pertain to employees including recruitment, selection, training, utilization, promotion, compensation, benefits, extracurricular programs, and termination are created and implemented without regard to age, ethnicity, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic or category specified by local, state or federal law