Senior Digital Platform Engineer

Caterpillar; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Caterpillar is seeking a Platform Engineer to join Cat Digital's Digital Marketing Enablement - Platform Engineering team in Chicago. You will design, develop, and operate enterprise digital experience capabilities across EDS, Vercel, Uniform, and AEM, focusing on reliability and performance in a fast-paced environment.

You will collaborate with product owners, architects, and vendor teams to modernize platforms, automate processes, and improve developer experiences while maintaining security

Qualifications

• Working knowledge of decision-making processes and tools.
• Clear and effective communication across teams and stakeholders.
• Extensive experience in software development and engineering practices.
• Experience in software integration and building interfaces between platforms.
• Strong background in software product design and architecture.
• Knowledge of technical aspects of software products.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable digital experience platform capabilities across EDS, Vercel, Uniform, AEM Assets, Cloud Manager, CI/CD pipelines, and CDN.
• Improve reliability, security, performance, maintainability, monitoring, and observability via automation.
• Lead or contribute to incident resolution, root cause analysis, and service restoration for critical apps.
• Collaborate with product, architecture, engineering, infrastructure, security, and vendors on enhancements and cloud migrations.
• Contribute to code quality, testing, documentation, governance, change management, and agile delivery.

Skills

Decision Making and Critical Thinking

Effective Communications

Software Development

Software Integration Engineering

Software Product Design/Architecture

Software Product Technical Knowledge

Tools

Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)

Adobe Edge Delivery Services (EDS)

Vercel

Next.js

Uniform

Akamai CDN

AWS

Job description

Career Area:

Technology, Digital and Data

Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do - but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here - we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

Cat® Digital is the digital and technology arm of Caterpillar Inc., leveraging the latest technologies to build industry leading digital and analytics solutions for our customers and dealers. We've created an inclusive environment for you to explore your passions, make an impact and do the work that really matters. With over 1.5M connected assets worldwide, our business and in the industries, we serve, data is generated continuously by Cat® equipment using the latest technology, advanced analytics, telematics and AI capabilities to help our customers build a better world.

Job Summary:

Join the Digital Marketing Enablement - Platform Engineering team within Cat Digital to build, operate, and continuously improve enterprise digital experience platform capabilities. You will develop and support solutions across Adobe Edge Delivery Services (EDS), Vercel, Uniform, AEM Assets, Cloud Manager, CI/CD pipelines, CDN and cloud technologies. In partnership with product owners, architects, developers, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams, you will improve platform reliability, performance, security, maintainability, and developer experience. The role combines hands-on software engineering with platform operations, modernization, automation, and incident resolution in an agile environment.

What You Will Do:

• Design, develop, integrate, and support scalable digital experience platform capabilities across EDS, Vercel, Uniform, AEM Assets, Cloud Manager, CI/CD pipelines, CDN, and related cloud technologies.
• Improve platform reliability, security, performance, maintainability, monitoring, and observability through sound engineering practices and automation.
• Lead or contribute to incident resolution, root cause analysis, service restoration, and follow-through improvements for business-critical digital applications.
• Partner with product, architecture, engineering, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams to deliver platform enhancements, integrations, cloud migration, and modernization work.
• Contribute to code quality, testing, technical documentation, governance, change management, and agile delivery practices.

What You Will Have:

• Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Working Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
• Effective Communications: Working Knowledge of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
• Software Development: Extensive Experience with software development tools and activities; ability to produce software products or systems in line with product requirements.
• Software Integration Engineering : Working Knowledge of software integration processes and functions; ability to design, develop and maintain interfaces and linkage to alternative platforms and software packages.
• Software Product Design/Architecture: Extensive Experience of software product design; ability to convert market requirements into software product design.
• Software Product Technical Knowledge : Working Knowledge of technical aspects of a software product; ability to design, configure and integrate technical aspects of software products.

Considerations for Top Candidates:

• Demonstrated software development and platform engineering experience in enterprise digital environments; relevant education or equivalent practical experience is valued, with an advanced degree considered a plus rather than a prerequisite.
• Strong hands-on experience with several of the following: Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Adobe Edge Delivery Services (EDS), Vercel, Next.js, Uniform, Akamai or another enterprise CDN, edge computing, and AWS.
• Experience operating and supporting cloud-based digital experience platforms, including monitoring, observability, automation, incident response, root cause analysis, and service restoration.
• Working knowledge of modern web development using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and Web Components, plus CI/CD and cloud deployment practices.
• Ability to collaborate across product, engineering, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams while advancing operational best practices, governance, change management, and service excellence.

Additional Details:

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