Lead Platform Engineer

Guardian Life; Town of Bethlehem (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Guardian Life is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to improve the engineering experience across the organization by identifying opportunities, partnering with engineering teams, and delivering reusable platform capabilities, solutions, and tooling.

The role combines hands-on software engineering, technical leadership, and cross-functional collaboration to accelerate platform adoption and reduce friction in the software lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of professional software engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead Platform Engineer to improve engineering experience across Guardian Life.
• Partner with engineering teams and drive discovery through delivery.
• Scale engineering enablement and tooling across the organization.

Skills

Software engineering

Job description

Open — Guardian Life has a posting for this job. Posted 2 Nov 2026.

This posting

Posted 2 Nov 2026 · Full-time · Pay not stated

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About this job

Position Summary

We are looking for a Lead Platform Engineer to improve the engineering experience across Guardian by identifying opportunities, partnering with engineering teams, and delivering reusable platform capabilities, solutions, and tooling. This role combines hands‑on software engineering, technical leadership, and cross‑functional collaboration to improve developer productivity, accelerate platform adoption, and reduce friction across the software development lifecycle. Operating across multiple initiatives and domains, you will partner with Engineering Experience leadership to drive work from discovery through delivery and scale engineering enablement across the organization. Success requires strong software engineering fundamentals, familiarity with AI-assisted software development tools, excellent communication skills, and the ability to navigate ambiguity while driving technical work to completion.

You are

• A software engineer who has personally designed, built, and shipped production software.
• Comfortable working across multiple teams, technologies, and business domains.
• Able to take a defined initiative and independently drive discovery, planning, implementation, and delivery.
• A strong communicator who can build partnerships and influence technical decisions without direct authority.
• Curious and proactive when faced with ambiguous problems or incomplete requirements.
• Effective working with globally distributed teams across multiple time zones.
• Passionate about improving the developer experience through practical, scalable solutions.
• An advocate for pragmatic engineering practices that balance speed, quality, maintainability, and adoption.

You have

Required Qualifications

• 7–10 years of professional software engineering