Platform Engineer

Required Skills

BS/MS degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent with 8+ years of industry experience

5+ years hands-on experience with Envoy Proxy (xDS/ADS, ext_authz, HTTP/2, gRPC, WebSocket) and/or Kong API Gateway (plugin development, DB-less mode, Admin API)

Strong Go development skills - control-plane services, gRPC APIs, Kubernetes controllers (client-go), concurrency patterns

Production Kubernetes experience (EKS and/or on-prem clusters) - Helm charts, HPA, PodDisruptionBudgets, NetworkPolicy, namespace isolation, ArgoCD GitOps

Deep understanding of OAuth 2.0/OIDC/PKCE flows, DPoP sender-constrained tokens, mTLS, and session management patterns

Experience with OPA (Open Policy Agent) policy authoring in Rego and sidecar deployment patterns

Hands-on with OpenTelemetry (traces, metrics, logs), Dynatrace, and Splunk SIEM integration

Working knowledge of CDN/WAF platforms (Akamai Ion, Kona, Cloudflare) and WAF-as-code automation

Experience with PostgreSQL (HA, connection pooling, PITR) and Kafka (MSK, Schema Registry, DLQ patterns)

Familiarity with DNS steering (GeoDNS, Akamai GTM, health-check routing) and TLS certificate lifecycle (cert-manager, HSM/KMS)

Strong CS fundamentals - networking (L3-L7), distributed systems, data structures & algorithms

Experience building high-volume, low-latency, resilient infrastructure services

Nice to have

TypeScript/React experience for operator dashboard development

AWS infrastructure experience (EKS, MSK, Lambda, Direct Connect, Network Firewall)

Bitbucket Pipelines CI/CD and GitOps delivery workflows

Experience with CAEP (Continuous Access Evaluation Protocol) or similar session revocation mechanisms

Background in identity platforms (ForgeRock, SAML federation, token exchange patterns)

Job Description

Day-to-day responsibilities:

Design, build and operate Envoy and Kong gateway infrastructure serving production traffic across multiple lines of business

Develop Go-based control-plane services - Ingress Registry, xDS controllers, Session Manager, Context Propagator

Implement and maintain OPA policy bundles for coarse-grained authorization at the gateway layer

Build and extend OpenTelemetry instrumentation pipelines (OTel Collector, Dynatrace OTLP ingest, Splunk SIEM forwarding)

Manage GitOps-driven deployments via ArgoCD and Helm across multi-cluster Kubernetes environments

Automate WAF rule management across Akamai and Cloudflare using WAF-as-code patterns

Contribute to the platform operator console (TypeScript/React) for route management, drift detection, and session visibility

Collaborate with LOB teams to onboard routes and migrate traffic from Legacy ingress infrastructure

Participate in incident response, runbook development, and production readiness reviews

Champion software engineering best practices - code review, testing, documentation, and observability-first design