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Robert Half
Software Engineer III (Platform Engineering)
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What they do
A Platform Engineer is responsible for the development of platforms that support the needs and use cases of different engineering teams across the organization. Creates reusable tools and workflows to streamline operational needs and facilitate automation tasks, supporting scalability of DevOps practices.
$161,754 / year median in California
Job Description
Robert Half is seeking a Software Engineer III (Platform Engineering) to support the infrastructure, platforms, and services that power our applications and data processing environments. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building cloud infrastructure, automating processes, improving platform reliability, and troubleshooting production issues in a fast-paced environment.
What You'll DoSpend approximately 70% of your time building and deploying infrastructure and platform enhancements, with 30% focused on operational support and troubleshooting.
Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and reliable cloud-based infrastructure supporting applications, ETL/ELT processes, and platform services.
Develop and maintain infrastructure automation, monitoring solutions, CI/CD pipelines, and operational tooling.
Build and manage AWS resources, including EC2 instances and related cloud services.
Support platform services in production environments, troubleshoot outages, and drive root-cause analysis and resolution efforts.
Manage critical incidents, including coordinating with external vendors such as Microsoft to resolve high-priority production issues.
Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions and improve platform reliability, scalability, and performance.
Collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to support application delivery and platform stability.
Conduct code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and promote engineering best practices.
Participate in an on-call rotation (approximately every three weeks).
What You'll DoSpend approximately 70% of your time building and deploying infrastructure and platform enhancements, with 30% focused on operational support and troubleshooting.
Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and reliable cloud-based infrastructure supporting applications, ETL/ELT processes, and platform services.
Develop and maintain infrastructure automation, monitoring solutions, CI/CD pipelines, and operational tooling.
Build and manage AWS resources, including EC2 instances and related cloud services.
Support platform services in production environments, troubleshoot outages, and drive root-cause analysis and resolution efforts.
Manage critical incidents, including coordinating with external vendors such as Microsoft to resolve high-priority production issues.
Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions and improve platform reliability, scalability, and performance.
Collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to support application delivery and platform stability.
Conduct code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and promote engineering best practices.
Participate in an on-call rotation (approximately every three weeks).