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# Senior C++ Platform Automation Engineer

- **Company:** Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $71,100.0 - $112,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), C++ (Programming Language), Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Memory Management, Linux System Administration, Performance Tuning, Software Deployment, Data Logging, Multithreading, Concurrency, Software Application Programming, Backend, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, C++14, Microservices
- **Published:** October 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=3a586a9ead02d145

## About the Role

* Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
 * Strong hands-on experience developing applications using modern C++, including C++11, C++14, C++17, or later versions.
 * Experience designing and supporting large-scale distributed systems, backend platforms, and Linux-based environments.
 * Strong knowledge of multithreading, concurrency, synchronization, memory management, debugging, and performance optimization.
 * Experience with CI/CD pipelines, release engineering, infrastructure automation, production troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.

This will help you stand out

 * Experience designing microservices and service-oriented systems.
 * Knowledge of monitoring, observability, logging, telemetry, alerting, and production support frameworks.
 * Experience establishing service-level objectives, operational dashboards, and reliability metrics.
 * Experience supporting infrastructure provisioning, platform migrations, and complex production deployments.
 * Experience working in highly regulated or compliance-driven engineering environments.

## Description

* Develop and maintain high-performance C++ applications, backend platforms, distributed services, and microservices.
 * Design reusable automation frameworks for deployment, onboarding, configuration, infrastructure provisioning, migrations, and operational workflows.
 * Build APIs, integrations, and orchestration capabilities that improve productivity and reduce manual effort.
 * Implement CI/CD, validation, monitoring, deployment, and rollback automation while optimizing system performance, scalability, reliability, and resource utilization.
 * Troubleshoot complex production issues, drive root cause resolution, define service-level objectives and operational health metrics, and create technical documentation, deployment guides, and support runbooks.

Work model:

At Cognizant, we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible, and we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs. Based on this role's business requirements, this is an onsite position requiring 5 days a week in a client or Cognizant office in San Jose, CA.

The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. These may change based on the project you are engaged in, as well as evolving business and client requirements. We will always be transparent about role expectations.