Senior Digital Platform Engineer

Caterpillar Inc.; Westminster (CO); On-site; USD 113,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) savings plans

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)

Tuition Reimbursement

Career Development

Incentive bonus

Life Insurance

Parental leave

Job summary

Caterpillar is seeking a Platform Engineer to join Cat Digital. You will design, build, and operate enterprise digital experience capabilities across AEM, EDS, Vercel, Uniform, and cloud technologies.

You will work with product, architecture, and security teams to improve reliability and performance. You will contribute to CI/CD pipelines, cloud migration, and modernization efforts while maintaining high code quality and governance in an agile environment.

Qualifications

• Experience building enterprise digital platforms with modern web tech.
• Ability to design and implement scalable digital experience capabilities.
• Familiarity with CDN, edge computing, and cloud deployment practices.
• Strong collaboration across product, architecture, engineering, infrastructure, security, and vendors.

Responsibilities

• Design and support scalable digital experience platform capabilities across EDS, Vercel, Uniform, AEM, Cloud Manager and CI/CD pipelines.
• Improve platform reliability, security, performance, and observability through automation.
• Lead or contribute to incident resolution and root cause analysis for critical apps.
• Partner with product, architecture, engineering, infrastructure, security, and vendors for platform enhancements.
• Contribute to code quality, testing, documentation, governance, and agile delivery.

Skills

HTML5

CSS3

JavaScript

Web Components

CI/CD

Cloud deployment

Tools

AEM (AEM)

EDS

Vercel

Next.js

Uniform

Akamai

AWS

Job description

Career Area:

Technology, Digital and Data

Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you’rejoining 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’tjust 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:

• This position requires the candidate tobe in Chicago, IL, Peoria, IL, Denver, CO or Dallas, TX
• Relocation assistance is NOT available for this position
• Visa sponsorship is NOT available with this position.

Summary Pay Range:

$112,710.00 - $183,140.00

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location,job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.

Benefits:

Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits*

• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*

• 401(k) savings plans*

• Health Savings Account (HSA)*

• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*

• Health Lifestyle Programs*

• Employee Assistance Program*

• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*

• Career Development*

• Incentive bonus*

• Disability benefits

• Life Insurance

• Parental leave

• Adoption benefits

• Tuition Reimbursement

* These benefits also apply to part‑time employees

This position requires working onsite five days a week.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Posting Dates:

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.