Platform Services Engineer—Auth, Observability, Guardrails

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision insurance

Company-paid life insurance

Disability insurance

Health Savings Account

401(k) match

Paid holidays

Job summary

Radiant Global Logistics, Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Services Engineer to own the shared platform foundation—authentication/authorization, observability, and common services. You will implement delivery guardrails, CI/CD templates, and API contracts to enable product teams to ship reliably.

The role emphasizes independent decision-making, platform governance, and collaboration with the Product & Experience teams to align standards and enable scalable growth.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering, with platform/backend focus.
• Hands-on auth/authorization experience for internal/external users.
• Observability using OpenTelemetry and standardization.
• Designing shared services and API contracts used by multiple teams.
• Strong CI/CD, IaC, cloud automation and security gates.
• Mentoring and setting technical standards; clear written comms.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own the shared authentication/authorization layer.
• Own observability and OpenTelemetry instrumentation across services.
• Develop platform services and versioned API/BFF contracts.
• Establish CI/CD pipelines and automated guardrails for quality.
• Maintain integration contracts with enterprise systems of record.
• Provide technical leadership and code review as team grows.
• Collaborate with product/design on platform readiness and infra.
• Define standards and mentor engineers to raise quality.
• Keep platform scope tight, triage non-core work.

Skills

OAuth2 / OIDC

OpenTelemetry

CI/CD

Cloud experience (AWS/Azure)

Platform as a product

API / BFF contracts

Distributed teams collaboration

English communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS / related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Radiant Global Logistics, Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Services Engineer to own the shared platform foundation—authentication/authorization, observability, and common services. You will implement delivery guardrails, CI/CD templates, and API contracts to enable product teams to ship reliably.

The role emphasizes independent decision-making, platform governance, and collaboration with the Product & Experience teams to align standards and enable scalable growth.