Senior Platform Engineer
Senior Platform Engineer at Linx Security in Tel Aviv building the core foundations of the company's security platform: backend services, shared frameworks, SDKs, and high-scale data and messaging layers on AWS. It's a hands-on software design role focused on developer experience, not DevOps or SRE work.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Extensive experience building production-grade backend systems in one or more modern languages (Python, Go, Node.js, Java, or Kotlin)
- Hands-on experience designing, building, and operating cloud-native applications on AWS
- Mindset for building reusable components, internal tools, and solving deep technical challenges for other engineers
- Experience in high-scale production environments where performance and reliability are non-negotiable
- Hands-on experience with distributed streaming or messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, SNS/SQS, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub) and messaging patterns
- Experience with a variety of database technologies and building middleware/wrappers between data and application
- Technical curiosity: eager to learn, explore new technologies, and choose the right tools per problem
- Forward-thinking: design for the scale expected in two years, not just today's problems
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field (or equivalent military/industry experience)
Full description
What we're looking for:
We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join a team focused on the core foundations of our platform. In this role, you won't just be building features, you'll design and evolve the high-scale systems, shared frameworks, and architectural abstractions that enable our entire engineering organization to scale securely and efficiently.
This is a "multiplier" role: your work will directly impact the performance, reliability, and velocity of every developer at Linx.
This is a hands-on software engineering role focused on application and platform infrastructure. You'll spend your time designing and building backend services, developer-facing frameworks, shared libraries, SDKs, and core platform capabilities that other engineers build upon. While you'll work on foundational systems, this is not a DevOps, SRE, or cloud infrastructure role. The primary focus is software design and development, not operating infrastructure, managing CI/CD pipelines, or administering Kubernetes clusters.
What you'll do:
- Architectural Evolution - Lead large-scale structural initiatives, such as optimizing our data layer and transitioning toward distributed, high-performance storage architectures.
- Core Frameworks & SDKs - Design and maintain internal libraries that standardize how our application interacts with critical infrastructure including messaging systems, databases, and workflow orchestration platforms (e.g., Temporal).
- System Resiliency - Own the reliability and optimization of our asynchronous communication and streaming layers, ensuring seamless data flow across a complex microservices ecosystem.
- Performance Engineering - Identify and resolve systemic bottlenecks. You'll be the go-to person for making our systems faster, leaner, and more resilient under heavy load.
- Developer Experience - Build the "golden paths" for our backend engineers, creating abstractions that make complex infrastructure easy, safe, and robust to use.
Requirements
What you’ll bring:
- Strong Backend & Cloud Foundation - Extensive experience building production-grade backend systems in one or more modern programming languages (such as Python, Go, Node.js, Java, or Kotlin), with hands-on experience designing, building, and operating cloud-native applications on AWS.
- The "Infra" Mindset - You thrive on building reusable components, internal tools, and solving deep-rooted technical challenges for other engineers.
- High-Scale Mastery - Experience in production environments where performance and reliability are non-negotiable. You understand how systems behave under stress and how to design for stability at scale.