Senior Platform Engineer — Go & Hybrid DB Infra

UKG; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 186,000; Full time

Job summary

UKG is seeking a Senior Database Platform Engineer to own and operate critical production database services across on‑premises and cloud environments. You will apply Go expertise to build and maintain scalable infrastructure and automation, with a focus on reliability, provisioning, and observability.

You will work across PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, and MySQL in hybrid settings, driving platform improvements, DR readiness, and incident response while collaborating with global teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
• 9+ years of software engineering or platform engineering experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on production Go (Golang) development.
• Proven track record building end-to-end platform solutions.
• Experience supporting mission-critical production services.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain infrastructure and automation to deliver critical production database services across on-premises and cloud platforms.
• Build solutions for database provisioning, configuration, lifecycle management, and self-service enablement at scale.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm) to automate service delivery across hybrid environments.
• Develop automation for certificate management, version upgrades, platform migrations, and operational tasks.
• Respond to and resolve P1/P2 incidents across all critical production database platforms in both environments.
• Troubleshoot service failures, provisioning errors, replication issues, and connectivity problems in hybrid infrastructure.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability improvements to prevent and resolve issues.
• Participate in on-call rotation to support mission-critical database services.
• Own one or more critical production database service areas to ensure high reliability and availability.
• Lead platform improvements including high-availability implementations and disaster recovery enhancements.
• Ensure seamless integration and support for critical database services at scale.
• Continuously optimize service delivery and reliability across all environments.

Skills

Go

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

RabbitMQ

MySQL

Docker

GCP

Cloud

Prometheus

Grafana

cert-manager

CI/CD

GitOps

ArgoCD

Kustomize

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Kustomize

Docker

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

ArgoCD

BOSH

Ansible

Vault

Job description

UKG is seeking a Senior Database Platform Engineer to own and operate critical production database services across on‑premises and cloud environments. You will apply Go expertise to build and maintain scalable infrastructure and automation, with a focus on reliability, provisioning, and observability.

You will work across PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, and MySQL in hybrid settings, driving platform improvements, DR readiness, and incident response while collaborating with global teams.