Senior Platform Engineer — Integration & Messaging (Cloud)

Capital Group; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time-away and health benefits from day

Flexible work options

Matching gifts program and annualgr

Professional development resources

Job summary

Capital Group is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer in California to architect and optimize distributed messaging and cloud-based systems. You will help internal teams build scalable platform utilities, working with Java/SpringBoot, Python and React/Angular, and integrating with Confluent Kafka and IaC tools.

You will lead engineering efforts, mentor peers, and drive secure, observable architectures while collaborating with product managers and security teams in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or related field.
• 8+ years of platform architecture and/or systems engineering with public and private cloud.
• Extensive experience as a full-stack developer with OpenAPI/Swagger/REST APIs in Java/SpringBoot, Python, React/Angular and databases.
• Hands-on with AI-assisted development tools and platform-level AI capabilities while following security and audit requirements.
• Proficient with GitOps, CI/CD, testing, secure coding, Git, tracing and alerting.
• Kubernetes experience and AWS services like Route53, ELB and ALB for stateful geo-distributed apps; CI/CD tooling.
• 3+ years with Confluent Cloud/Kafka, API gateway, MSK and messaging platforms with IaC on public cloud.
• Observability, Terraform, TLS security, Agile/SCRUM, product delivery mindset.
• Strong leadership, mentoring skills and collaborative problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Architect and optimize distributed messaging and streaming platforms to support Capital Group applications.
• Partner with software and platform engineers, product managers and stakeholders to deliver features.
• Advance engineering excellence, performance, reliability and secure practices.
• Lead and mentor teams; promote self-service and automation across platforms.
• Stay informed on industry trends and drive adoption of best practices.

Skills

Platform architecture

Public cloud

Kubernetes

AWS

Java/SpringBoot

Python

React/Angular

REST APIs

Confluent Kafka

Terraform

CI/CD

GitOps

Observability

TLS security

Agile/Scrum

Leadership

Problem solving

Communication

Tools

OpenAPI

Swagger

REST APIs

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

CI Harness

Job description

Capital Group is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer in California to architect and optimize distributed messaging and cloud-based systems. You will help internal teams build scalable platform utilities, working with Java/SpringBoot, Python and React/Angular, and integrating with Confluent Kafka and IaC tools.

You will lead engineering efforts, mentor peers, and drive secure, observable architectures while collaborating with product managers and security teams in a fast-paced environment.