Senior Platform Engineer — AI-Driven Platform & Automation

Alliance Data Systems, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

Bread Financial is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design and evolve platform services, automation, and cloud-native capabilities. You will build reusable platform products, APIs, and developer tools to accelerate engineering teams enterprise-wide.

You will partner with architecture, security, product, and operations to raise platform maturity, reliability, and developer experience. The role blends hands-on engineering with strategic leadership in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Define strategic direction for platform engineering capabilities. Lead architecture and design of enterprise platforms and shared services.
• Define enterprise automation strategies for the AI-driven development lifecycle. Lead intelligent automation platforms and autonomous workflows.
• Define platform reliability, resilience, scalability, and performance. Lead CI/CD, observability, and operational intelligence capabilities.
• Define platform-wide governance, security, compliance, and risk strategies with partners.
• Provide technical leadership across platform engineering initiatives and mentor engineers.

Skills

Golang

Microservice Architecture

Platform Management

API

SDKs

IT Automation

CI/CD

Site Reliability Engineering

Generative AI

AI Architecture

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering

1 cloud certification (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Tools

AWS

Job description

Bread Financial is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design and evolve platform services, automation, and cloud-native capabilities. You will build reusable platform products, APIs, and developer tools to accelerate engineering teams enterprise-wide.

You will partner with architecture, security, product, and operations to raise platform maturity, reliability, and developer experience. The role blends hands-on engineering with strategic leadership in a hybrid work environment.