Senior Platform Engineer - Azure & Auth Services

Bain & Company; Town of Boston (NY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 192,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Generous paid time off

401(k) with company match

Job summary

Bain & Company is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate core platform services on Azure AKS. You will own APIs end‑to‑end, implement authentication/authorization, and ensure observability and security across production systems.

You will mentor engineers, drive standards, and collaborate with Security to integrate Vault/Azure Key Vault. This hybrid role requires delivering reliable backend platforms in a fast‑paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 6+ years of experience building and operating backend services, APIs, or platform components in production environments, including on‑call responsibility.
• Production experience building and operating REST and event‑driven microservices at scale in a Kubernetes environment.
• Experience designing and operating data stores in Postgres, including schema migration practices, query optimisation, and performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy, and operate core platform services to production quality standards.
• Own service APIs and contracts end‑to‑end across product squads.
• Mentor mid‑level and junior platform engineers through pairing and design guidance.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Docker

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AKS

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Redis

Vault/Azure Key Vault

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Bain & Company is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate core platform services on Azure AKS. You will own APIs end‑to‑end, implement authentication/authorization, and ensure observability and security across production systems.

You will mentor engineers, drive standards, and collaborate with Security to integrate Vault/Azure Key Vault. This hybrid role requires delivering reliable backend platforms in a fast‑paced environment.