Senior Software Engineer – Platform Engineering

Nigel Frank International; Town of Poland (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Nigel Frank International is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a growing Platform Engineering team. You will work on scalable internal platforms and shared engineering solutions, with a strong emphasis on cloud infrastructure, distributed systems and developer tooling.

The role involves building authentication and platform capabilities, leveraging LLMs and agentic AI, and designing CI/CD pipelines, with a focus on reliability, automation and engineering standards across cloud and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of delivering production-grade software.
• Strong Python development and OO language experience.
• Experience with Kubernetes, distributed systems and cloud
• Knowledge of REST and gRPC services and high-throughput architectures.
• Experience with software and solutions architecture design.
• Hands-on with agentic AI SDKs and tooling.
• Experience with Terraform or similar IaC technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain scalable internal platforms, services and shared engineering solutions.
• Build and enhance authentication, developer and platform capabilities.
• Develop tooling using LLMs, code generation and agentic AI to improve software delivery, testing and deployment.
• Design and automate CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure and operational processes.
• Apply SRE and DevOps principles, including observability, automation and IaC.
• Work across cloud and on-premise environments, contributing to architecture standards and technology strategy.
• Support production systems through incident response and an on-call rotation.

Skills

Python

Java

C#

Go

REST

gRPC

Distributed systems

Platform engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

AI SDKs

Job description

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join a growing Platform Engineering team, working on the design and evolution of shared technology platforms used across a large-scale technology environment.

This role combines software engineering, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems and developer tooling, with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, automation and engineering standards.

What you’ll be doing

• Design, develop and maintain scalable internal platforms, services and shared engineering solutions.
• Build and enhance authentication, developer and platform capabilities.
• Develop tooling using LLMs, code generation and agentic AI to improve software delivery, testing and deployment.
• Design and automate CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure and operational processes.
• Apply SRE and DevOps principles, including observability, automation and Infrastructure as Code.
• Work across cloud and on-premise environments, contributing to architecture standards and technology strategy.
• Support production systems through incident response and an on-call rotation.

What we’re looking for:

• 7+ years’ experience delivering production-grade software and designing technical solutions.
• Strong Python development skills plus another OO language such as Java, C#, C++ or Go.
• Experience with Kubernetes, containers and distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of REST and gRPC services and high-throughput architectures.
• Experience designing software and solutions architecture.
• Hands‑on experience with agentic AI SDKs and tooling.
• Experience with Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code technologies.
• Strong understanding of cloud, DevOps, CI/CD and automation practices.

If you’re an experienced software engineer looking to work at the intersection of platform engineering, distributed systems, cloud and AI, we’d be keen to hear from you.