Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer || New Jersey || Contract Required Qualifications Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience) 8+ years of industry experience in platform, infrastructure, or backend engineering 5+ years of hands-on experience with: Envoy Proxy (xDS/ADS, ext_authz, HTTP/2, gRPC, WebSocket) and/or Kong API Gateway (plugin development, DB-less mode, Admin API) Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) , including concurrency patterns and distributed systems design Deep experience with Kubernetes (EKS and/or on-prem): Helm, HPA, PodDisruptionBudgets, NetworkPolicy, namespace isolation GitOps workflows (ArgoCD) Strong understanding of authentication & security protocols : OAuth 2.0, OIDC, PKCE mTLS, DPoP, session management patterns Experience with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego policy development Hands-on experience with observability tooling : OpenTelemetry (traces, metrics, logs) Dynatrace and Splunk SIEM Experience with data and messaging systems : PostgreSQL (HA, pooling, PITR) Kafka (MSK, Schema Registry, DLQ patterns) Familiarity with: CDN/WAF platforms (Akamai, Cloudflare) DNS routing (GeoDNS, GTM, health checks) TLS lifecycle management (cert-manager, KMS/HSM) Strong foundation in networking (L3 L7) , distributed systems, and algorithms Proven experience building high-throughput, low-latency, resilient systems Thanks, OpenKyber