Senior Software Engineer, Platform

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Senior Software Engineer Platform (Poland)

In this role you will architect and implement backend capabilities that drive our global high-scale cloud infrastructure position transcends standard backend development and pure DevOps; you will operate at the intersection of software engineering distributed systems and production reliability maintaining full ownership of services from initial design through observability and technical support. Your work will focus on complex challenges in resiliency asynchronous workflows automation and system scalability. We value engineers with deep technical fundamentals who are eager to adapt to evolving architectures new languages and emerging cloud-native technologies.

Whats cool about this job

• Design build test and operate scalable backend services and platform capabilities.

• Develop APIs and service integrations used across distributed and cloud-based systems.

• Make technical design decisions around data flow asynchronous workflows scalability resiliency and performance.

• Own services throughout their lifecycle from design and implementation to deployment observability troubleshooting and production support.

• Design and operate services across different cloud and platform environments understanding how application infrastructure networking and runtime decisions affect production systems.

• Work across modern and established platform technologies making pragmatic decisions based on system requirements.

• Diagnose complex problems across application infrastructure networking and data layers.

• Improve CI/CD automation testing and engineering workflows to reduce manual work and increase delivery quality.

• Contribute to technical designs through ADRs RFCs and architecture discussions.

• Collaborate with engineers across teams and help raise engineering standards through technical feedback and knowledge sharing.

• Use AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate development investigate problems and improve engineering productivity.
  

Your expertise and passion

You have strong software engineering fundamentals and a passion for building scalable resilient production systems. You value engineering principles over specific languages and are comfortable operating across the entire software lifecycle.

• Backend & Cloud Architecture: Skilled in designing REST/gRPC APIs relational databases (SQL) and cloud-native architectures across GCP and AWS environments.

• Distributed Systems: Deep understanding of event-driven architecture asynchronous processing scalability fault tolerance and eventual consistency.

• DevOps & Security: Committed to Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) observability (monitoring/tracing) and integrating security (IAM OAuth) throughout the development process.

• Engineering Discipline: Practitioner of SOLID principles automated testing and collaborative development through code reviews and technical documentation.

• AI Integration: Proactive in leveraging modern AI tools to accelerate development and improve code quality while maintaining technical ownership.
  

Helpful experience to have

• Languages & Runtimes: Go PHP Ruby Python.

• Cloud Services: GCP (GKE Pub/Sub IAM BigQuery Cloud SQL) and AWS (EC2 S3).

• Orchestration & Infrastructure: Kubernetes Docker Terraform.

• Observability Tools: OpenTelemetry Google Cloud Operations Prometheus Datadog

Perks and Benefits

• Company Stock Options (Every employee is an owner in the company)

• Health Benefits (LuxMed Premium Rehab Dentistry III)

• Pension Scheme with a match

• Life Insurance 100% premium paid by WP Engine

• Free Multisport Card - Light and Classic

• Short-Term Disability & Sick Leave: 100% salary coverage for the first 33 days

• Employee Assistance Program

• Generous Vacation Time (Who doesnt like time off)

• 1 floating holiday

• 4 Company Wellness Days

• Home Office Stipend

• On-going education through LinkedIn Learning Workday Learning and our Career Growth Portal

We believe that compensation should be reflective of the impact you have within the organization relative to the market value of your role. The estimated base salary range for this position is as listed above. Some roles may also be eligible for overtime pay. Our salary ranges are determined by job role and responsibilities and level. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for salaries for the position nationwide. The actual base pay will vary based on various factors including job-related skills and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process. Your talent acquisition partner can share more about the total rewards package at WP Engine including any additional total rewards components such as equity variable pay plans (if applicable) and benefits during the hiring process.