Product & Platform Engineer: Build Scalable Platforms

SGS; California (MO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Benefits package

Professional growth

Job summary

SGS is seeking a Founding Product & Platform Engineer to define the architecture for frontend, backend, and cloud services. You’ll shape the platform and tooling behind next‑gen SGS digital products, driving reusable components and scalable delivery.

You’ll be a hands‑on builder, setting engineering standards and empowering a small team to ship at scale. This role rewards ownership from day one in a greenfield environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in product engineering or platform/SRE.
• Hands-on builder with a code-first mindset.
• Experience designing distributed, scalable systems.
• Ability to translate product needs into platforms used by engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and delivery of customer-facing solutions.
• Develop platform tooling and reusable building blocks.
• Define deployment pipelines and CI/CD practices.
• Mentor engineers and promote pragmatic, high-quality delivery.
• Collaborate with product and design to ship valuable features.

Skills

React/TypeScript frontend

Go/Python backends

Cloud (GCP/AWS)

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability

Product collaboration

System design

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Jaeger

Job description

SGS is seeking a Founding Product & Platform Engineer to define the architecture for frontend, backend, and cloud services. You’ll shape the platform and tooling behind next‑gen SGS digital products, driving reusable components and scalable delivery.

You’ll be a hands‑on builder, setting engineering standards and empowering a small team to ship at scale. This role rewards ownership from day one in a greenfield environment.