Lead Platform Engineer

We're looking for a strong software engineer with an infrastructure mindset to build reusable platform services and engineering primitives that power product development across the company. This role is focused on designing and building foundational capabilities such as rate limiting, distributed locking, configuration management, feature flags, service discovery, and other shared platform services that can be adopted by multiple engineering teams.
This is not a traditional DevOps or operations role. Rather than operating large-scale production systems day-to-day, you'll be responsible for building robust, scalable, and extensible platform abstractions that enable engineers to move faster and build reliable products. You'll work on complex distributed systems problems, design clean APIs and libraries, and ensure platform services can be confidently validated through thoughtful testing, failure simulation, and scalability verification.
Responsibilities:
Platform Services Development: Design and build reusable platform services and infrastructure primitives that can be adopted across multiple engineering teams.
System Design Architect: scalable, reliable, and extensible systems with well-defined interfaces, operational simplicity, and long-term maintainability.
Engineering Foundations: Develop shared libraries, SDKs, APIs, and platform abstractions that reduce duplication and improve engineering velocity across the organisation.
Reliability and Correctness: Design systems with failure handling, fault tolerance, concurrency safety, and operational resilience built in from the start.
Validation and Testing: Build comprehensive test strategies to validate scalability, correctness, and reliability through stress testing, fault injection, simulation, and automated verification.
Technical Ownership: Own platform components end-to-end, from design and implementation to adoption, observability, and long-term evolution.
Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner closely with application and infrastructure teams to understand platform needs and drive adoption of shared services.
Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to simplify engineering workflows, improve developer productivity, and enhance platform capabilities through reusable solutions.
Requirements:
5-8 years of software engineering experience with strong backend development fundamentals.
Strong proficiency in Go or Python, with experience building production-grade backend systems, frameworks, or internal platforms.
Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts, including concurrency, consistency, fault tolerance, caching, rate limiting, locking, and service coordination.
Experience designing reusable libraries, services, or infrastructure abstractions consumed by multiple engineering teams.
Strong software design skills with emphasis on maintainability, extensibility, and clean API design.
Experience writing comprehensive unit, integration, and system-level test suites.
Ability to reason about edge cases, failure scenarios, race conditions, and system correctness.
Familiarity with cloud-native architectures, containerised environments, and modern engineering tooling.
Strong debugging, problem-solving, and system design capabilities.
Excellent collaboration and communication skills.

Experience
6-10 yrs