Platform Engineer

Apex Systems, Inc • Dearborn, MI • 1h ago

Description:

Platform Engineering builds shared services, APIs, and developer tooling that enable engineering teams to deliver value safely, efficiently, and at scale. This role is focused on backend software engineering, with emphasis on building high-quality APIs, automation, and developer-facing tools, supported by working knowledge of cloud, DevOps, and SRE practices.

Key Responsibilities

Design and build secure, reliable, and well-documented internal and customer-facing APIs and services

Develop developer tools and platform services to enhance developer experience (DX), including templates, CLIs, libraries, and service scaffolding

Apply engineering best practices including test-driven development, code reviews, CI/CD, and safe deployment patterns

Build for operability, including structured logging, metrics, tracing, health checks, and actionable alerting

Collaborate with platform and product teams to standardize engineering patterns (authentication/authorization, configuration, secrets management, resilience, versioning)

Support incident response and drive reliability improvements to reduce operational risk and defects

Contribute to the definition and evolution of platform standards, tooling, and reusable patterns

Required Skills

Python: Ability to develop production-grade, tested, and documented code for platform automation and tooling

Go: Experience building performant, concurrent services, APIs, CLIs, or automation tools

Docker: Ability to build and manage production-ready containerized applications

Kubernetes: Experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting workloads in Kubernetes environments

REST APIs: Strong experience designing, implementing, and versioning APIs with proper error handling, pagination, and backward compatibility

Linux: Strong troubleshooting and operational experience across networking, processes, permissions, and performance

GCP: Experience provisioning, operating, and troubleshooting cloud-native platform services

Required Qualifications

6+ years of IT experience, including 4+ years in software development

Proficiency in at least one primary programming language and working experience in a second (e.g., Python, Go, Java, C#, TypeScript)

Strong experience delivering production-grade APIs and services across the full lifecycle (design, development, testing, deployment, operations)

Experience with API lifecycle management, including versioning and backward compatibility

Strong testing discipline across unit, integration, and component testing

Working knowledge of cloud-native development, including containers and CI/CD pipelines

Ability to debug and troubleshoot across application, runtime, and platform layers using logs, metrics, and traces

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

Experience building and managing internal platform APIs with a product-oriented mindset (usability, documentation, adoption)

Experience with event-driven and asynchronous architectures (queues, pub/sub), including reliability and idempotency patterns

Knowledge of security best practices, including OAuth/OIDC, least privilege models, and threat modeling

Experience improving system reliability through SLOs and automation to reduce operational toil

Experience with Kubernetes ecosystems and infrastructure as code in partnership with platform/SRE teams

Exposure to CI/CD pipeline tooling (e.g., Tekton) and GitOps workflows

Ability to build lightweight internal UIs or tooling (e.g., React)

Ways of Working

Deliver incrementally with frequent releases and rapid feedback loops

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