Senior Platform Backend Engineer: APIs & Tooling

Alkira, Inc.

United States

On-site

USD 85,000 - 155,000

Full time

7 days ago
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Job summary

Alkira, a Lumen company, is seeking a Senior Platform Services Software Engineer to design and build core platform capabilities used by multiple engineering teams. The role focuses on backend services, APIs, and tooling, not customer-facing features, with ownership of complex projects from design through production support.

You will work with Golang, build cloud-native microservices over gRPC/Protobuf, and mentor others through code reviews and standards.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building production-scale applications and services.
  • Strong proficiency in Golang with experience developing production-quality backend systems.
  • Experience designing APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
  • Experience with Linux development environments, debugging, and troubleshooting.
  • Experience building cloud deployments on GCP, AWS, or Azure.
  • Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, and platform capabilities using Golang.
  • Build cloud-native microservices and distributed primitives consumed by other engineering teams, over gRPC and Protobuf.
  • Build and maintain the platform tooling other teams are using and treat their ergonomics as part of the product.
  • Own complex features from design through implementation, deployment, and production support.
  • Contribute to architectural decisions that improve scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability across every team depending on the platform.
  • Diagnose and resolve complex software issues across Linux-based development and production environments.
  • Turn recurring patterns across teams into shared capability rather than repeated one-off support.
  • Mentor engineers through code review and technical guidance, and contribute to development standards, automated testing, and security review of Platform-owned services.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation for the services you own.

Skills

Golang
Backend development
API design
Distributed systems
Linux development
Cloud platforms
Communication
Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related technical field

Tools

Kubernetes
Docker
gRPC
Protobuf
SDKs/CLIs

Job description

Alkira, a Lumen company, is seeking a Senior Platform Services Software Engineer to design and build core platform capabilities used by multiple engineering teams. The role focuses on backend services, APIs, and tooling, not customer-facing features, with ownership of complex projects from design through production support.

You will work with Golang, build cloud-native microservices over gRPC/Protobuf, and mentor others through code reviews and standards.

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