Senior Software Engineer, Platform

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Senior Software Engineer, Platform (Poland)

In this role, you will architect and implement backend capabilities that drive our global, high-scale cloud infrastructure services.This position transcends standard backend development and pure DevOps; you will operate at the intersection of software engineering, distributed systems, and production reliability, maintaining full ownership of services from initial design through observability and technical support. Your work will focus on complex challenges in resiliency, asynchronous workflows, automation, and system scalability. We value engineers with deep technical fundamentals who are eager to adapt to evolving architectures, new languages, and emerging cloud-native technologies.

What's cool about this job

• Design, build, test, and operate scalable backend services and platform capabilities.

• Develop APIs and service integrations used across distributed and cloud-based systems.

• Make technical design decisions around data flow, asynchronous workflows, scalability, resiliency, and performance.

• Own services throughout their lifecycle, from design and implementation to deployment, observability, troubleshooting, and production support.

• Design and operate services across different cloud and platform environments, understanding how application, infrastructure, networking, and runtime decisions affect production systems.

• Work across modern and established platform technologies, making pragmatic decisions based on system requirements.

• Diagnose complex problems across application, infrastructure, networking, and data layers.

• Improve CI/CD, automation, testing, and engineering workflows to reduce manual work and increase delivery quality.

• Contribute to technical designs through ADRs, RFCs, and architecture discussions.

• Collaborate with engineers across teams and help raise engineering standards through technical feedback and knowledge sharing.