Sr. Platform Engineer

CU Direct; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 128,600 - 160,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k (8% match)

College Tuition Benefits

Good Benefits options

Cultural and Holiday celebrations

Job summary

CU Direct is seeking a Sr. Platform Engineer in Irvine, CA, responsible for designing and building internal tools and platform capabilities that enhance software delivery. The role requires collaboration with product developers and requires strong coding and automation skills.

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, at least 5 years of software engineering experience, and proficiency in languages such as C#/.NET, Python, or TypeScript. Additional experience with Azure and Terraform is preferred.

This full-time position offers a starting salary range of $128,600 - $160,800 yearly along with competitive benefits and a flexible working environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of professional software engineering experience requiring production applications.
• Strong proficiency in C#/.NET, Python or TypeScript/Node.js.
• Experience with Azure cloud services and Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain internal tools for software delivery.
• Develop CI/CD templates in Azure DevOps.
• Collaborate with product developers to enhance platform capabilities.

Skills

C#/.NET

Python

TypeScript/Node.js

Terraform

Azure services

REST APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

Azure DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

About Origence

With 30 years at the forefront of fintech innovation, Origence delivers SaaS lending solutions that power credit unions across the United States. Our mission is to enable accessible, competitive lending while strengthening the financial ecosystem for credit unions, their members, and dealer partners.

We operate with a customer-first mindset and a culture of ownership, accountability, and operational excellence. We invest in our people and empower them to innovate, improve, and drive measurable business impact.

About You

You are a self-driven, accountable professional who thrives in a fast-moving environment. You operate with an ownership mindset, are comfortable with ambiguity, and focus on solving business problems through automation, data, and process improvement. You are highly collaborative, detail-oriented, and motivated by measurable impact.

The Sr. Platform Engineer

The Sr. Platform Engineer will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining internal tools and platform capabilities that accelerate software delivery across the organization. This is a software engineering role — you will write production-quality code, design APIs, build automation frameworks, and develop self-service tooling applied to platform and infrastructure problems. You will work across CI/CD pipeline engineering, observability platforms, internal developer portals, infrastructure automation, and developer productivity tooling.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Build and maintain YAML-based CI/CD pipeline templates in Azure DevOps used by dozens of teams and hundreds of services.
• Design and develop internal tools, CLIs, and REST APIs that enable self-service for product development teams (e.g., automated onboarding, pipeline generation, environment provisioning).
• Write and maintain Terraform modules for Azure cloud infrastructure, including Container Apps, API Management, networking, and disaster recovery.
• Extend and integrate Datadog monitoring, build custom dashboards, automate alerting, and instrument platform telemetry using OpenTelemetry patterns.
• Help build and evolve our Internal Developer Portal (IDP) to give developers a unified view of their services, deployments, health, and documentation.
• Help legacy systems adopt modern CI/CD, Blue/Green deployments, and DR capabilities through template-driven approaches.
• Build automated compliance gates and security checks that let teams move fast without moving dangerously.
• Collaborate directly with product developers to understand workflows, reduce friction, and deliver platform capabilities that meet real needs.
• Spend the majority of your time actively designing and coding. A portion of your time will be spent researching new technology and mentoring other engineers.

The Ideal Candidate

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related industry experience.

Experience

• A minimum of 5 years of professional software engineering experience — you have built and shipped production applications, not just configured infrastructure.
• Strong proficiency in at least one general-purpose language: C#/.NET, Python, or TypeScript/Node.js.
• Experience with software engineering fundamentals: design patterns, automated testing, code review, version control, and CI/CD as a practitioner.
• Azure cloud experience — working knowledge of Azure services (Container Apps, App Services, Azure DevOps, API Management, or similar).
• Hands-on experience with Terraform (preferred) or equivalent Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
• Experience designing and building REST APIs or automation services.
• Recent experience utilizing Generative AI techniques including GitHub Copilot and Prompt Engineering techniques.

Preferred Experience

• Experience building internal developer tools, platforms, or productivity tooling.
• Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or other observability platform experience.
• Azure DevOps pipeline authoring (YAML templates, variable groups, service connections).
• Experience with developer portals (Backstage, Cortex, or similar).
• Familiarity with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Container Apps).
• Experience working in a platform engineering, SRE, or developer experience team.
• PowerShell scripting for Windows-based enterprise environments.
• Financial services or regulated industry experience.

Specialized Skills

• Ownership and accountability mindset with strong decision-making, communication, and analytical skills.
• Can effectively lead technical initiatives and collaborate on design/requirements while gathering the necessary information for development.
• Ability to write clear documentation, explain technical decisions, and collaborate across teams.
• Knowledge of various LLMs, Agentic AI, RAG, MCP and incorporating these technologies from both automation and feature engineering standpoints.
• Understanding of Agile methodologies, Domain Driven Design, and event-driven architecture approaches.
• Deep expertise in their chosen technology stack with broader knowledge of various programming languages, frameworks, and tools.
• Ability to break up larger projects into individual pieces, assess complexity of each piece, and balance work amongst team members.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced / flexible environment that practices SAFe / Agile based SDLC.
• Sets high standards for behavior and performance, models the values and principles of the organization, and inspires others through action.

Why You Should Apply

• Flexible Working Environment
• 401k (8% match)
• College Tuition Benefits/ Tuition Reimbursement
• Good Benefits options
• Company Culture! Cultural and Holiday celebrations, Theme days like Star Wars Day & Bring your Kids to Work Day, Monthly Townhalls and Quarterly Company Meetings that ensure awareness, inclusion, and transparency.

The starting salary range for this full-time position in Irvine, CA is $128600 - $160800 per year. This base pay will take into consideration internal equity, candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge and experience among other factors. Origence maintains a highly competitive compensation program. Under company guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual bonus to provide an incentive to achieve targeted goals. Bonuses are awarded at company’s discretion on an individual basis.

Origence is an equal opportunity employer. All recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, and other terms and conditions of employment will be based upon an individuals’ qualifications regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, military service, marital status, pregnancy, age, protected medical condition, genetic information, disability or any other category protected by federal, state or local law.