Senior Platform Engineer - Self-Serve Deployments

McAfee; Frisco (TX); Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus Program

401k Retirement

Healthcare coverage

Paid parental leave

Job summary

McAfee seeks an experienced Senior Application Platform Engineer in Frisco, TX, to enable self-service deployments and drive platform evolution. You will work inside product engineering teams to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable services with platform-as-a-product mindset.

The role emphasizes building pipelines, IaC, monitoring, and operational readiness, collaborating across SRE and engineering teams for 24/7 readiness.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of hands-on software/ platform engineering experience.
• Experience working directly inside product engineering teams.
• Track record of diagnosing and fixing production issues end-to-end across app and infra boundaries.
• Proficient in Go and Python; able to read/troubleshoot other languages.

Responsibilities

• Embed with product engineering groups as a standing team member.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable application platforms.
• Design CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Harness.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code with Terraform/Terragrunt and maintain observability standards.
• Lead performance/load testing and incident response alongside SRE.

Skills

Go

Python

Node.js/TypeScript

Dart/Flutter

Java

C++

C

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

Kubernetes

Docker

GitHub Actions

Harness

Backstage

Job description

McAfee seeks an experienced Senior Application Platform Engineer in Frisco, TX, to enable self-service deployments and drive platform evolution. You will work inside product engineering teams to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable services with platform-as-a-product mindset.

The role emphasizes building pipelines, IaC, monitoring, and operational readiness, collaborating across SRE and engineering teams for 24/7 readiness.