Senior Platform Engineer - AI-Driven Cloud & Automation

Bread Financial Group; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

Bread Financial in New York is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the design, development, and evolution of platform services, automation, and cloud-native engineering that boost delivery, reliability, and developer productivity.

This role focuses on reusable platform products, enterprise libraries, client SDKs, and agentified AI capabilities that minimize boilerplate and standardize best practices across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field is required.
• At least one cloud certification (AWS/Azure/GCP) is expected.
• 5–8 years in platform/software/cloud engineering, DevOps, or automation.

Responsibilities

• Define strategic direction for platform engineering; lead architecture of enterprise platforms and shared services.
• Define enterprise automation strategies for the AI-driven development lifecycle and govern automation.
• Define reliability, scalability, and performance strategies; lead CI/CD, observability, and IaC standards.
• Define governance, security, and risk strategies; enable scalable platform controls and policy automation.
• Provide technical leadership across platform initiatives; mentor engineers and drive excellence.
• Lead developer experience across platforms; sponsor reusable accelerators and self-service capabilities.
• Define AI-enabled platform vision; promote AI agents, orchestration, MLP, and agent ecosystems.

Skills

Golang

Microservice Architecture

Platform Management

Systems Architecture

Service Platforms

API

SDKs

IT Automation

AWS

CI/CD

Site Reliability Engineering

Generative AI

AI Architecture

GitHub Copilot

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.

1 cloud certification - AWS cloud practitioner, Microsoft Azure Fundamentals or Google Cloud- Cloud Digital Leader

5-8 years of experience in platform engineering, software engineering, cloud engineering, DevOps, automation engineering, or related disciplines.

Job description

Bread Financial in New York is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the design, development, and evolution of platform services, automation, and cloud-native engineering that boost delivery, reliability, and developer productivity.

This role focuses on reusable platform products, enterprise libraries, client SDKs, and agentified AI capabilities that minimize boilerplate and standardize best practices across the enterprise.