Senior Platform Engineer

HIRECLOUT; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO and medical benefits

401(k) with match

Fully remote role

Job summary

Hireclout is seeking a Senior Platform Software Engineer to design and deliver reusable backend capabilities and cloud-native services. You’ll enable application teams to build at scale on a secure, observable platform using agentic AI and AWS infrastructure.

The role emphasizes architecture ownership, production reliability, and collaboration with teams to ensure safe, scalable migrations and robust testing. Fully remote in the United States.

Qualifications

• Deep server-side engineering experience in Java, Python, C#, Kotlin, or Go
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals: API/event contracts, concurrency, idempotency, consistency
• Hands-on AWS experience designing and operating production workloads
• Comfortable with containers, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD
• Experience building shared backend foundations with compatibility and adoption in mind
• Reliability and security engineering experience in production
• Agentic AI is your primary development surface and you can verify correctness

Responsibilities

• Design and build shared platform capabilities and reusable backend services
• Make AWS infrastructure usable through software abstractions and integration patterns
• Direct implementation via AI agents and step into code when needed
• Engineer for reuse, backward compatibility, safe migrations and verifiable behavior
• Own the testing strategy and validate generated tests evidence
• Build reliability, security, and observability into the platform
• Own production outcomes and platform adoption across teams
• Remain accountable for full lifecycle from planning to production

Skills

Backend design

Distributed systems

Agentic AI

Cloud architecture

Code review

Tools

AWS

Containers

CI/CD

Infrastructure as code

Job description

Job Title:Senior Platform Software Engineer

Location:Remote | Experience: 5-8 years (guideline, not a hard gate)

Role Overview

HIRECLOUT is partnering with an established, global technology-enabled services organization that is modernizing the software foundations behind its products. The engineering team builds shared backend capabilities, cloud-native services, and AWS infrastructure that application teams rely on, making secure, reliable, high-quality software easier to build and operate at scale without each team solving the same engineering problems independently.

AI is not a productivity add-on in this environment; it is how the team builds. Engineers use agentic development as standard equipment, moving from problem to production-ready code faster than traditional development allows, while keeping the work reviewable and maintainable. The platform carries sensitive, regulated data at scale, so reliability and correctness are non-negotiable.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and build shared platform capabilities: own the architecture and delivery of reusable backend services, libraries, frameworks, and integrations that application teams depend on, with clear interfaces, failure modes, and operational contracts
• Make AWS infrastructure usable through software: build application-level abstractions, automation, and integration patterns that let teams use cloud services securely and reliably
• Direct implementation rather than writing it line by line: decompose platform work, write specifications and contracts, and delegate implementation to AI agents, stepping into code when complexity, debugging, or technical judgment demands it
• Engineer for reuse, compatibility, and testability: design for multiple consumers, backward compatibility, safe migrations, and verifiable behavior
• Own the testing strategy and validate that generated tests provide meaningful evidence
• Build reliability, security, and observability into the platform: establish defaults for authentication, authorization, failure handling, telemetry, and deployment safety that improve every service built on it
• Own production outcomes and platform adoption: review agent and human work with the same rigor, respond to incidents, and work with consuming teams to make shared capabilities practical to adopt and operate
• Remain accountable for the full lifecycle: planning, design, code, tests, review, and production

Education & Qualifications:

• Deep server-side engineering experience in Java, Python, C#, Kotlin, or Go; you have designed and operated backend systems and built reusable components that other engineers depend on
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals: API and event contracts, asynchronous messaging, concurrency, idempotency, consistency, failure handling, and versioning across independently deployed services
• Hands-on AWS experience designing and operating production workloads, including compute, networking, storage, databases, messaging, IAM, and the tradeoffs among managed services
• Comfortable with containers, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD
• Experience building shared backend foundations (service frameworks, common libraries, authentication and authorization, integration layers, or similar capabilities) with deliberate attention to compatibility, configuration, documentation, and adoption
• Reliability and security engineering experience in production: observability, SLOs, incident response, resilient architectures, and secure handling of sensitive or regulated data
• A testing strategy appropriate for shared platform software: unit, integration, contract, and compatibility testing, with reliable CI feedback and confidence that changes will not break downstream consumers
• Agentic AI is your primary development surface: you can specify complex platform work, direct agents to implement it, and verify correctness across integrations, edge cases, and operational behavior
• You have shipped production software this way and can identify where human judgment is essential

Why Our Client:

• Work on shared platform capabilities that improve every service and team built on top of them
• AI-native engineering culture where agentic development is the standard way of working
• Opportunity to own architecture and delivery across the full lifecycle, from design through production
• High-impact modernization effort with a focus on reliability, security, and quality
• Fully remote role

Compensation, Benefits and Perks:

• Base salary range: $160,000 - $200,000 USD (actual compensation depends on experience, education, pay market/geography, and scheduled hours)
• Full benefits package, including PTO, medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) with match
• Employee assistance program and wellness program

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis now and in the future. This position does not offer sponsorship.