Platform Services Engineer: Auth & Observability

Radiant Logistics Inc.; Renton (WA); On-site; USD 93,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

HSA contributions

FSA options

401(k) match

Sick Pay

Vacation Pay

Paid holidays

EAP

Job summary

Radiant Logistics, Inc. seeks a Senior Platform Services Engineer to own the platform foundation powering Radiant’s digital products, including authentication/authorization, observability, and common services.

This hands-on role builds guardrails, CI/CD pipelines, and API contracts to enable scalable delivery by product teams. Independent decision-making and mentoring will be key as the team grows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering, with platform/backend focus.
• Deep hands-on authN/authZ (OAuth2/OIDC, SSO) including internal/external users.
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry observability: tracing, metrics, logging.
• Experience designing/operating shared services or API contracts.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own the shared authentication and authorization layer for internal and external users.
• Own observability with OpenTelemetry instrumentation, tracing, metrics, and logging across products.
• Build and productize common platform services and API/BFF contracts consumed by multiple teams.
• Establish CI/CD pipelines and automated guardrails for quality, security, and speed.
• Define and maintain integration contracts with legacy systems of record.
• Provide technical leadership, architecture guidance, and code review as the team grows.
• Partner with Product & Experience Lead on feasibility and frontend platform integration.
• Set technical standards and mentor engineers to raise the team’s quality floor.
• Keep the platform charter tight by triaging requests and deferring non-core work.
• Perform other platform/engineering tasks as assigned.

Skills

AuthN/AuthZ

OpenTelemetry

Platform-as-a-Product

CI/CD

IaC & Cloud

Code Review & Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related

Tools

AWS

Azure

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Radiant Logistics, Inc. seeks a Senior Platform Services Engineer to own the platform foundation powering Radiant’s digital products, including authentication/authorization, observability, and common services.

This hands-on role builds guardrails, CI/CD pipelines, and API contracts to enable scalable delivery by product teams. Independent decision-making and mentoring will be key as the team grows.