Senior Platform Engineer: Java, Spring Boot & GCP

Anaqua; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Anaqua, Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join the platform team, building shared microservices and Spring Boot libraries used across product teams.

This hands-on IC role shapes hosting, security, deployment and monitoring standards for a multi-region, high-availability GCP-based platform. You’ll work on multi-region GCP infrastructure—GKE, global load balancing, Helm, and GitLab CI—while contributing to edge security, API design, observability and incident response.

Qualifications

• Deep production Java with Spring Boot and transactional boundaries.
• Experience building shared platform libraries or Spring Boot starters.
• Strong infra/DevOps on a major public cloud (GCP preferred).
• Kubernetes in production (GKE), Helm, multi-region deploys, autoscaling, rollbacks.
• Terraform daily use; PostgreSQL depth (schema, indexing, migrations).
• Event sourcing and async messaging with OpenAPI contract-first design.
• Observability and incident response on GCP with strong testing.

Responsibilities

• Build shared Spring Boot services and libraries used by multiple product teams.
• Help shape platform standards for hosting, security, deployment and monitoring.
• Work on multi-region GCP infrastructure with GKE, Helm and GitLab CI.
• Contribute to security policies, API keys, JWTs and least-privilege access.

Skills

Java & Spring Boot

Platform libraries

GCP / GKE

Kubernetes

Terraform

PostgreSQL

OpenAPI

Observability

English comms

DevOps

Tools

GKE

Helm

Terraform

PostgreSQL

OpenAPI

Envoy

gRPC

Job description

Anaqua, Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join the platform team, building shared microservices and Spring Boot libraries used across product teams.

This hands-on IC role shapes hosting, security, deployment and monitoring standards for a multi-region, high-availability GCP-based platform. You’ll work on multi-region GCP infrastructure—GKE, global load balancing, Helm, and GitLab CI—while contributing to edge security, API design, observability and incident response.