Lead Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

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ITHAKAEducation technology

Remote within the Continental United StatesFull-TimeLead

Salary145,000 - 160,000 USD per year

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Experience: A minimum of 8 years as a full-stack software engineer delivering large-scale, distributed web applications.
Required Skills: AWSDockerKubernetesVue.JsReactCI/CDRESTful APIsTerraform

Have a minimum of 8 years as a full-stack software engineer delivering large-scale, distributed web applications.
Design and develop scalable backend services and RESTful APIs.
Develop user-facing or internal web applications with modern frontend frameworks such as React or Vue.
Apply UI/UX and accessibility best practices.
Have working knowledge of CI/CD concepts, automation, and software delivery pipelines, using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar.
Have practical expertise contributing to or operating internal developer platforms, enablement tooling, or shared services.
Have strong experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, or EKS.
Deploy applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
Have hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform.
Have experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems.
Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize performance across the stack.
Collaborate in Agile, cross-functional, and distributed or self-directed teams.

Architect, develop, and maintain internal platforms, services, and tooling for CI/CD, automation, and software delivery.
Drive the development platform lifecycle, including pipelines, deployment strategies, automation, and productivity tooling.
Apply DevOps and enablement methodologies to improve development velocity, reliability, quality, and operational efficiency.
Partner with product, platform, and application engineering teams to improve developer workflows and platform usability.
Ensure enablement tools are intuitive, accessible, well-documented, and aligned with developer needs.
Mentor and coach engineers on architecture, coding standards, DevOps practices, and UI/UX considerations.
Facilitate technical deep dives, design reviews, and training sessions.
Assess, prototype, trial, implement, and sunset technologies; collaborate on platform roadmaps and technical initiatives.
Participate in incident response, production support, troubleshooting, and remediation.
Improve availability, alerting, performance, capacity, cost, recovery, and technical debt practices.

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