Senior Platform Engineer: Scalable Data & API Services

ADP, Inc.; Round Rock (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ADP, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Platform in Round Rock, TX to build backend and data platform capabilities for our next-generation space and critical infrastructure defense solutions.

You will design services, APIs, and data pipelines that ingest telemetry and expose data for product, analytics, and ML UX, delivering secure, cloud-native deployments. This is a hands-on role requiring leadership, collaboration across teams, and a strong focus on reliability and security.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend, platform, data, or distributed systems.
• Strong proficiency in at least one production backend language - Go or Python experience is strongly preferred
• Experience designing distributed services and asynchronous job-processing systems, including concurrency, retries, idempotency, failure recovery, and horizontal scaling
• Experience designing and implementing production APIs using Protobuf/gRPC, including versioning, compatibility, authentication, and authorization
• Strong relational database knowledge, including relational data modeling, schema migrations, referential integrity, query design, indexing, and performance tuning
• Experience with S3-compatible object storage and large analytical, lakehouse, ETL, or time-series data systems
• Experience packaging, deploying, and operating containerized services using Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and automated CI/CD workflows
• Practical experience with production security and reliability, including IAM, RBAC, secrets management, access controls, audit logging, observability, testing, and incident troubleshooting
• Demonstrated ability to translate architecture and product requirements into incremental implementation plans, production code, and clear technical documentation
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work independently while providing technical leadership and mentorship
• Minimum education requirement - High School Diploma
• Eligible to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance - U.S. Citizenship required

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and implementation of core platform services
• Build versioned API and service contracts using Protobuf/gRPC
• Implement and maintain database schemas for data management and application state
• Implement and optimize ingest workflows for massive unstructured time-series and telemetry datasets
• Build horizontally scalable asynchronous workers and distributed job queues for data ingest and export
• Implement secure data upload, download, and object-management workflows
• Establish automated unit, integration, contract, load, and failure-mode testing, perform troubleshooting, quality assurance, and production support (SRE-lite)
• Implement platform observability, including log aggregation, metrics, engineering dashboards, alerting, and user-visible job status and error information
• Collaborate with frontend, machine learning, product and infrastructure teams
• Review code, mentor engineers, and ensure platform implementations comply with security requirements, industry standards, and company policies

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

Go

Python

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Protobuf/gRPC

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

CI/CD

S3-compatible storage

Job description

ADP, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Platform in Round Rock, TX to build backend and data platform capabilities for our next-generation space and critical infrastructure defense solutions.

You will design services, APIs, and data pipelines that ingest telemetry and expose data for product, analytics, and ML UX, delivering secure, cloud-native deployments. This is a hands-on role requiring leadership, collaboration across teams, and a strong focus on reliability and security.