Platform Engineer: AWS/Kubernetes, AI-Driven Infra (Hybrid)

Motion Recruitment; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Vacation Time

Stock Options

Job summary

Our client, a leading distributor of maintenance, repair, and operating products and technology-driven solutions, seeks a Senior Software Engineer/Platform Engineer to scale their Platform Product team. This role is hybrid 3 days a week in downtown Chicago.

You will shape how engineering teams build and ship software, designing automation, self-service tooling, and defaults that reduce risk without slowing delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including architecture and observability, in a large, distributed environment working across multiple teams
• 3+ years as a full stack engineer building and operating services in production, including modern web frontends with React or a similar framework
• 3+ years coding in higher-level languages such as Python or Java in a multi-team codebase
• Strong knowledge of containers and Kubernetes, APIs, and web services, including building services with FastAPI or similar frameworks
• Cloud experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure via UI, API, and CLI or automation
• Experience implementing infrastructure as code, such as Terraform, and strong CI/CD principles
• Strong communication skills and the ability to mentor, influence, and collaborate across teams

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve automated, self-service capabilities used across engineering teams
• Work on ambiguous problems, drive designs to decisions, mentor engineers via code reviews and pairing
• Reduce technical debt to lower risk and friction
• Collaborate with Product Engineering to automate cloud processes across the SDLC
• Suggest secure defaults and advise on coding practices, tests, observability
• Participate in standups and grooming to guide the team
• Document design decisions in Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
• Adopt an AI-first mindset and contribute to AI workflows

Skills

5+ years software engineering

Full stack engineering

Python/Java

Kubernetes/containers

AWS/GCP/Azure

Terraform/CI-CD

Mentor/cross-team collaboration

FastAPI or similar

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

GitHub

Job description

Our client, a leading distributor of maintenance, repair, and operating products and technology-driven solutions, seeks a Senior Software Engineer/Platform Engineer to scale their Platform Product team. This role is hybrid 3 days a week in downtown Chicago.

You will shape how engineering teams build and ship software, designing automation, self-service tooling, and defaults that reduce risk without slowing delivery.