[Hiring] Senior Platform Services Software Engineer @Alkira

Role Description

Alkira is transforming networking through its Network Infrastructure as a Service (NIaaS) platform, enabling enterprises to build and operate global cloud networks with simplicity, scale, and agility. We are seeking a Senior Platform Services Software Engineer to design and build the core constructs that Alkira's engineering teams build on.

This role is for a software engineer first. Platform Services does not own customer-facing features. 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. Your users are engineers, and your leverage comes from that: a well-designed construct is adopted across many teams, and a poorly designed one is worked around by all of them.

You will own complex projects, contribute to architectural decisions to turn what teams need into production-quality platform capability. This is not an infrastructure management, DevOps, or SRE role.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, and platform capabilities using Golang.
• Build cloud-native microservices and distributed primitives consumed by other engineering teams, over gRPC and Protobuf.
• Build and maintain the platform tooling other teams are using and treat their ergonomics as part of the product.
• Own complex features from design through implementation, deployment, and production support.
• Contribute to architectural decisions that improve scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability across every team depending on the platform.
• Diagnose and resolve complex software issues across Linux-based development and production environments.
• Turn recurring patterns across teams into shared capability rather than repeated one-off support.
• Mentor engineers through code review and technical guidance, and contribute to development standards, automated testing, and security review of Platform-owned services.
• Participate in the on-call rotation for the services you own.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building production-scale applications and services.
• Strong proficiency in Golang with experience developing production-quality backend systems.
• Experience designing and building APIs, microservices, and distributed 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 developing software for cloud environments, including GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Strong technical judgment, problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills.

Preferred

• Temporal, or comparable durable workflow engines (Cadence, Step Functions).
• Experience on an internal platform, developer platform, or shared services team where the users were other engineers.
• Building developer tooling: SDKs, code generation, CLIs.
• Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native application architectures.
• Carrying production on-call for services you built.
• Strong understanding of software design patterns, performance optimization, automated testing, and system reliability.
• Background in networking, cloud infrastructure, telecommunications, or enterprise SaaS platforms.

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. The interview process will include a coding challenge, screening with the hiring manager, and technical interviews.

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.