Staff Security Platform Engineer (IC5)

Ontrac Solutions Inc; United States; Remote; USD 145,000 - 172,000; Full time

Job summary

OnTrac is seeking a Staff Security Platform Engineer (IC5) to own backend integrations and policy platform use cases for a critical customer engagement. You will set technical direction for a small delivery team and collaborate with the customer tech lead to deliver on defined milestones.

Required: hands-on experience with Golang, MongoDB, Snowflake and AWS; ability to lead design, code reviews, and translate requests into actionable work. Remote work from the United States is supported.

Qualifications

• Core, hands-on experience building backend services and integrations in Golang.
• Core experience with MongoDB as an application data store, including data modeling and query design.
• Core experience with Snowflake, including loading data into it and querying it from backend systems.
• Core experience building and running services on AWS.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining integrations between backend systems and supporting platform use cases alongside a customer engineering team.
• Ability to lead technical design, review code, and set direction for other engineers on an engagement.
• Ability to communicate clearly with a customer tech lead and translate day-to-day requests into well-scoped engineering work.

Responsibilities

• Support day‑to‑day backend integration work and policy platform use cases for the customer, delivering changes in Golang against MongoDB, Snowflake, and AWS-hosted services.
• Own technical design for assigned integrations from definition through delivery, and document design decisions for the customer tech lead and delivery stakeholders.
• Deliver work to the customer’s technical standards, following the code review, testing, and deployment practices established by the customer’s team.
• Provide technical direction and code review for the Senior Security Platform Engineer (IC4) staffed on the same engagement.
• Onboard rapidly and begin contributing to integration work early in the engagement.
• Communicate progress, risks, and blockers promptly to the customer tech lead and delivery stakeholders.

Skills

Golang

MongoDB

Snowflake

AWS

Technical leadership

Customer communication

Job description

OVERVIEW

OnTrac is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Staff Security Platform Engineer (IC5) to join a contractor program supporting a critical customer engagement. The customer requires one Staff (IC5) engineer to support day-to-day backend integrations and policy platform use cases. This role is ideal for a hands-on backend engineer who can take ownership of integration work on a policy platform, set technical direction for a small delivery team, and become productive on a customer codebase with minimal ramp-up. The successful candidate will work closely with the delivery team and customer stakeholders, including the customer's tech lead, to ensure project success from initial definition through final delivery.

ENGAGEMENT

• Expected start date: 12 October 2026
• Expected end date: 8 January 2027 (very high likelihood of extension)
• Location: United States, fully remote

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Core, hands‑on experience building backend services and integrations in Golang
• Core experience with MongoDB as an application data store, including data modeling and query design
• Core experience with Snowflake, including loading data into it and querying it from backend systems
• Core experience building and running services on AWS
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining integrations between backend systems and supporting platform use cases alongside a customer engineering team
• Ability to lead technical design, review code, and set direction for other engineers on an engagement
• Ability to communicate clearly with a customer tech lead and translate day-to-day requests into well‑scoped engineering work

USEFUL QUALIFICATIONS

• Prior work on a security or policy platform team
• Prior experience as an embedded contractor on a customer engineering team

SCOPE AND DELIVERY EXPECTATIONS

• Support day‑to‑day backend integration work and policy platform use cases for the customer, delivering changes in Golang against MongoDB, Snowflake, and AWS‑hosted services
• Own technical design for assigned integrations from definition through delivery, and document design decisions for the customer tech lead and delivery stakeholders
• Deliver work to the customer’s technical standards, following the code review, testing, and deployment practices established by the customer’s team
• Provide technical direction and code review for the Senior Security Platform Engineer (IC4) staffed on the same engagement
• Onboard rapidly and begin contributing to integration work early in the engagement
• Communicate progress, risks, and blockers promptly to the customer tech lead and delivery stakeholders

Salary: $105 – $125 / hour