Staff Platform Engineer - Scale & Strategy (Hybrid)

Nintex; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global Gratitude and Recharge Days

Flexible paid time off

Employee wellness programs

Paid parental leave

Open source contributions support

Job summary

Nintex is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to own the technical strategy for a key product area, ensuring long-term scalability and reliability. You will drive architectural decisions, collaborate with multiple teams, and mentor engineers to raise engineering standards.

The role blends hands-on coding with strategic leadership in a hybrid office setting. You will partner with product managers, design leads, and stakeholders to align priorities and deliver scalable platform solutions that

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of professional experience in platform, site reliability, or infrastructure engineering.
• Experience architecting large-scale systems with technical leadership.
• Strong ability to define and drive technical strategy across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own technical strategy for the infrastructure of a key product area or platform.
• Lead architectural decisions across multiple teams and domains.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices.
• Drive cross-team collaboration to ensure scalable and reliable platforms.
• Translate business requirements into technical execution plans.

Skills

Platform engineering

Cloud platforms

Site Reliability Engineering

Infrastructure as Code

Technical leadership

Architectural design

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD tools

Job description

Nintex is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to own the technical strategy for a key product area, ensuring long-term scalability and reliability. You will drive architectural decisions, collaborate with multiple teams, and mentor engineers to raise engineering standards.

The role blends hands-on coding with strategic leadership in a hybrid office setting. You will partner with product managers, design leads, and stakeholders to align priorities and deliver scalable platform solutions that