Platform Engineer

Role Summary

Senior backend/platform engineer responsible for scalable cloud services that orchestrate sessions, authentication/authorisation, and system integrations for real-time applications.

Key Responsibilities

· Design and implement backend services and APIs for session management, user/role models, and workflow orchestration

· Implement authentication and authorisation patterns appropriate for distributed applications

· Build reliable service-to-service integrations and event-driven components where applicable

· Design for scalability and resilience: retries, idempotency, rate-limits, graceful degradation

· Integrate with media systems (signalling, session lifecycle, metadata) in collaboration with WebRTC engineers

· Implement operational readiness: logging, metrics, alerts, and runbooks

· Support environment configuration and deployment practices with DevOps counterparts

Must-have Skills & Experience

· 6–10 years in backend engineering with one or more of: Node.js/Python

· Experience building production APIs and distributed services

· Strong understanding of scalability, reliability, and security fundamentals

· Hands-on experience with cloud services (AWS preferred) and production operations

· Proficiency with data stores and caching patterns appropriate to the use case

Good-to-have / Bonus

· Experience with real-time signalling and session orchestration

· Experience with event-driven architectures (queues/streams)

· Familiarity with container orchestration and service meshes

· Experience implementing audit trails and operational governance patterns