alkira

alkira

Senior Platform Services Software Engineer

United States · Senior

No sponsorship$85k-$155kDetected 2 days ago
GoBackend DevelopmentCode ReviewAWSGCPCloud PlatformsKubernetesLinuxDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringTemporalgRPCCadenceTest AutomationSD-WANCommunicationCollaborationProblem Solving

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Lottery odds (Level II)66
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About the role

  • This role is for a software engineer first.
  • This is not an infrastructure management, DevOps, or SRE role.
  • Contribute to architectural decisions that improve scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability across every team depending on the platform.

Responsibilities

  • You will own complex projects, contribute to architectural decisions to turn what teams need into production-quality platform capability.
  • Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, and platform capabilities using Golang.
  • Own complex features from design through implementation, deployment, and production support.
  • Turn recurring patterns across teams into shared capability rather than repeated one-off support.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation for the services you own.
  • Life at Alkira is human and connected, even in a fast moving, AI‑focused organization. We set clear expectations and trust people to meet them. With real support and shared accountability, teams collaborate better, move faster, and deliver meaningful outcomes.
  • Our Lumen 8 behaviors guide how we interact, make decisions, and work together, shaping a culture built to perform and win.
  • With real support and shared accountability, teams collaborate better, move faster, and deliver meaningful outcomes.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • Strong proficiency in Golang with experience developing production-quality backend systems.
  • Strong experience with Linux development environments, troubleshooting, and system-level debugging.
  • Experience designing interfaces other engineers consume, and evident care for their ergonomics, stability, and documentation.
  • Experience on an internal platform, developer platform, or shared services team where the users were other engineers.
  • Strong understanding of software design patterns, performance optimization, automated testing, and system reliability.
  • Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer-sponsored visa (e.g., H-1B) now or in the future. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position at this time.
  • Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer-sponsored visa (e.g., H-1B) now or in the future.

Skills

  • Platform Services does not own customer-facing features.
  • Your users are engineers, and your leverage comes from that:
  • R esponsibilities

Compensation

  • The salary range for this position is $ 84,629- $ 155,152 USD.
  • Your actual base salary and level will be determined on a case by case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge, skills, experience, education and location.
  • We do not tolerate unlawful discrimination in any employment decisions, including recruiting, hiring, compensation, promotion, benefits, discipline, termination, job assignments or training.

Benefits

  • We do not tolerate unlawful discrimination in any employment decisions, including recruiting, hiring, compensation, promotion, benefits, discipline, termination, job assignments or training.

Company info

  • Today, as part of Lumen, we are bringing that cloud-native operating model to a global network foundation trusted by the world's largest enterprises.
  • Our platform helps customers move faster without managing hardware, stitching together providers, or operating fragmented cloud networks.
  • Unfortunately, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position at this time.
  • We are seeking a Senior Platform Services Software Engineer to design and build the core constructs that Alkira's engineering teams build on.
  • We build the shared backend services, APIs, and primitives other engineering teams depend on, and we expose the platform tooling - SDKs, clients, CLIs, and self-service interfaces - they use to work with them.
  • Build and maintain the platform tooling other teams are using and treat their ergonomics as part of the product.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer-sponsored visa (e.g., H-1B) now or in the future.
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