Platform Software Engineer - APIs & Developer Tools

We are seeking a Platform Software Engineer with expertise in APIs, developer tools, and cloud-native platforms. This role focuses on building high-quality APIs, automation, and internal developer tooling while applying modern software engineering, DevOps, and reliability practices., * Design and build secure, reliable, and well-documented internal and customer-facing APIs and services.

• Create developer tools and platform services that improve developer experience, including templates, CLIs, libraries, service scaffolding, and automation.
• Apply engineering best practices including test-driven development, code reviews, continuous integration, and safe deployment patterns.
• Engineer for operability through structured logging, metrics, tracing, health endpoints, and actionable alerts.
• Collaborate with platform and product teams to standardize authentication, authorization, secrets management, configuration, resilience, and versioning patterns.
• Participate in incident response and reliability improvement efforts.
• Help reduce defects and operational risk through automation and engineering excellence.
• Support production systems, documentation, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• 6+ years of IT experience.
• 4+ years of software development experience.
• Strong software engineering experience delivering production services and APIs, including design, implementation, testing, and operations.
• Proficiency in at least one backend programming language such as Python, Go, Java, C#, or TypeScript.
• Experience with API design and lifecycle management, including versioning, backward compatibility, pagination, and error modeling.
• Strong testing discipline with unit, component, and integration testing experience.
• Working knowledge of cloud-native delivery, including containers, CI/CD, and operating services in cloud environments.
• Ability to troubleshoot across application, runtime, and platform layers using logs, metrics, and traces.
• Experience developing production-grade Python applications for platform automation and internal tooling.
• Experience building platform services, CLIs, API handlers, operators, or automation tooling using Go.
• Experience authoring and managing production-quality Docker container images.
• Experience deploying, troubleshooting, and operating workloads in Kubernetes environments.
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining production REST APIs.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills, including networking, process management, permissions, and performance analysis.
• Experience provisioning, operating, and troubleshooting Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services., * Experience building and maintaining platform APIs with a strong focus on usability, documentation, support, and adoption.
• Experience with event-driven and asynchronous architectures, including queues and publish/subscribe patterns.
• Understanding of reliability concepts, including idempotency and operational resilience.
• Knowledge of security concepts such as OAuth, OpenID Connect (OIDC), least privilege access, threat modeling, and input validation.
• Experience improving reliability through service level objectives (SLOs) and automation.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code in partnership with platform or site reliability engineering teams.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Tekton.
• Experience building internal developer-facing user interfaces, dashboards, tooling interfaces, or self-service portals using React. What Makes HTC A Great Place To Build Your Future

HTC Global Services wants you to join our team. Come build new things with us and advance your career. At HTC Global, you’ll collaborate with experts, work alongside clients, and be part of high-performing teams driving success together. You’ll have long-term opportunities to grow your career and develop skills in the latest emerging technologies.

At HTC Global Services, our employees have access to a comprehensive benefits package. Benefits can include Group Health (Medical, Dental, and Vision), Paid Time Off, Paid Holidays, 401(k) matching, Group Life and Disability insurance, Professional Development opportunities, Wellness programs, and a variety of other perks.

Our success as a company is built on inclusion and diversity. HTC Global Services is committed to providing a workplace free from discrimination and harassment, where every employee is treated with dignity and respect. We celebrate differences and believe that diverse cultures, perspectives, and skills drive innovation and success. HTC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a proud National Minority Supplier. We seek to empower each individual, fostering an environment where everyone feels valued, included, and respected.