Platform Engineer #1058613
Job Description:
Overview:

• Platform Engineering builds shared services, APIs, and developer tooling that help engineering teams deliver value safely and quickly.
• This role leans toward software development (high-quality APIs, automation, and tools), with working knowledge of cloud, DevOps, and SRE practices.

 
What you'll do

• Design and build internal and customer-facing APIs and services that are secure, reliable, and well-documented.
• Create developer tools and platform services that improve developer experience (DX): templates, CLIs, libraries, service scaffolding, automation.
• Apply engineering best practices: test-driven development, code review, CI, and safe deployment patterns.
• Engineer for operability: structured logging, metrics/tracing, health endpoints, and actionable alerts.
• Collaborate with platform and product teams to standardize patterns (authn/authz, secrets, configuration, resilience, versioning).
• Participate in incident response and reliability improvements; help teams reduce defects and operational risk.

 
What we're looking for
Required:

• Strong software engineering experience delivering production services/APIs (design, implementation, testing, and operations).
• Proficiency in at least one backend language (e.g., Java, Go, C#, Python, TypeScript) and modern API practices.
• Experience with API design and lifecycle management (versioning, backward compatibility, pagination, error modeling).
• Strong testing discipline (unit/component/integration tests) and comfort refactoring safely.
• Working knowledge of cloud-native delivery: containers, CI/CD, and operating services in a cloud environment.
• Ability to debug across layers (application, runtime, platform) using logs/metrics/traces.

 
Preferred

• Experience building and maintaining platform APIs (internal "product" mindset: usability, docs, support, adoption).
• Experience with event-driven and asynchronous patterns (queues, pub/sub), reliability, and idempotency.
• Security experience: OAuth/OIDC concepts, least privilege, threat modeling, input validation.
• Experience improving reliability using SLOs and reducing toil through automation.
• Experience with Kubernetes and infrastructure as code in partnership with platform/SRE teams.

 
How we work

• Build small, ship often: incremental changes with clear acceptance criteria and fast feedback.
• Quality is non-negotiable: tests, clear design, observability, and secure defaults.
• Operate what we build: ownership includes production support, documentation, and continuous improvement.

 
What success looks like

• Platform APIs and tools are adopted because they are reliable, well-documented, and easy to integrate.
• Developers spend less time on undifferentiated work (setup, pipeline wiring, troubleshooting) and more time delivering features.
• Incidents decrease due to better operability, safer releases, and consistent engineering standards.

 
Skills Required:

• Python - The candidate can write production-grade Python to automate platform workflows and build internal tooling — not just write scripts, but ship tested, documented code.
• Go - The candidate can write performant, concurrent Go programs for platform services — CLIs, API handlers, K8s operators, or automation tooling.
• Docker - The candidate can author production-quality container images and understand the container lifecycle — not just `docker run hello-world'.
• Kubernetes - The candidate can deploy, troubleshoot, and operate workloads on Kubernetes — and understand the platform layer (not just `kubectl apply`).
• REST APIs - The candidate can design, implement, and version production APIs with proper error modeling, pagination, and backward compatibility — and treat them as products with users.
• Linux - The candidate can operate, debug, and troubleshoot Linux systems at a level that supports production platform work — networking, process management, permissions, and performance.
• GCP - The candidate can provision, operate, and troubleshoot GCP services that power a cloud-native platform — not just point-and-click console work.

 
Skills Preferred:

• Tekton - The candidate can design and maintain CI/CD pipelines as code using Tekton — understanding tasks, pipeline definitions, triggers, and how they fit into a GitOps workflow.
• React - The candidate can build internal developer-facing UIs — dashboards, tooling interfaces, or self-service portals — using React. This is not a frontend-first role, but the ability to build usable internal tools is valued.

 
Experience Required:

• Engineer Exp: Prac. In 2 coding lang. or adv. Prac. in 1 lang.
• 6+ years in IT
• 4+ years in development

 
Education Required:

• Bachelor's Degree

 
Additional Info:
 
At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet. We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories. Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra.  We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.
We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years!
FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused.
We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest. Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.
Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:
 

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match

 
Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.
FastTek Global was named one of the Top Work Places in Michigan by the Detroit Free Press in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023!
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