Platform Services Lead: Auth, Observability & Guardrails

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

HSA & FSA

Life Insurance

401(k) with match

PTO

Job summary

Radiant Logistics Inc. seeks a Sr. Platform Services Engineer to own the shared authentication and authorization layer, observability, and platform services across product teams.

You will define contracts, build guardrails, and drive automation to enable scalable delivery while maintaining ITAR/CUI compliance. You will lead architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and partner with product and design-system efforts, ensuring secure, auditable access to shipment data and robust telemetry across

Qualifications

• Must be a U.S. person due to ITAR/CUI data handling.
• Minimum 5 years in software engineering with platform/backend focus.
• Deep hands-on auth/authz—OAuth2/OIDC, SSO, token models.
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry observability implementation.
• Experience designing platform services/API contracts consumed by teams.
• Strong CI/CD, IaC, cloud experience (AWS/Azure).
• Proven standards, code reviews, mentoring.
• Excellent written and verbal English.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own shared authentication/authorization layer for internal and external users.
• Own observability as a shared capability (OpenTelemetry, traces, metrics, logs).
• Develop platform services and API/BFF contracts for multiple teams.
• Establish CI/CD pipelines and automated quality guardrails.
• Define integration contracts with enterprise systems of record.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers as team grows.
• Triage requests and keep the v1 scope tight, deferring non-core work.

Skills

OAuth2/OIDC

SSO

OpenTelemetry

API Contracts

CI/CD

Cloud (AWS/Azure)

Architecture leadership

English communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS

Tools

Jira

Confluence

AI tooling

Job description

Radiant Logistics Inc. seeks a Sr. Platform Services Engineer to own the shared authentication and authorization layer, observability, and platform services across product teams.

You will define contracts, build guardrails, and drive automation to enable scalable delivery while maintaining ITAR/CUI compliance. You will lead architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and partner with product and design-system efforts, ensuring secure, auditable access to shipment data and robust telemetry across