Sr. Software Development Engineer

Platform Engineering is a critical function of Engineering Operations and consists of all facets of building a platform of shared & managed services that are used by our Product Teams to deliver software, fast, repeatably, autonomously, and without friction or hand-offs.

Outline of Duties and Responsibilities

• Own engineering operations strategies, practices, and standards across the organization, working closely with engineering leadership.
• Evangelize operational excellence within Pitchbook engineering teams, integrating product and engineering with operations seamlessly through structure, collaboration, enablement, and automation.
• Devise solutions that optimize and accelerate the SDLC while maintaining exceptional quality and security, repeatedly applied through automation.
• Help development teams to manage infrastructure, including cloud managed services, base images, containerization strategy and execution, infrastructure automation (+ GitOps ), cloud procurement, and governance.
• Manage developer experience ( DevEx ), including developer productivity, SDLC and operational metrics, automated CI/CD pipelines, value stream management and tracking, tool selection and integration.
• Describe technical context in intuitive ways for different audiences, adapting communication from highly technical deep dives with engineers to non-technical dialogue with executive stakeholders.
• Learn constantly, including in available managed services (PaaS/SaaS/IaaS), libraries, frameworks, and platforms (commercial and open source), pros/cons and cost/benefit tradeoffs.
• Follows the company s application of Agile, Lean, and principles of fast flow to engineering department efficiency and productivity and owns operations role in process automation to achieve fluidity.

Experience, Skills and Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, network, CDN, protocols.
• Solid experience in DevOps, Infrastructure-as-Code ( IaC ), and GitOps configuration & CI/CD pipelines, including Flux, Terraform, Gitlab CI/GitHub Actions, or similar tools.
• Solid understanding of programming best practices and principles, common software architectures and methods.
• Extensive experience designing and managing cloud-based solutions, infrastructure management , including web services, messaging solutions (Kafka, Pub/Sub), databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server), and caching solutions.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. You can effectively read the situation and adjust your communication style to the audience.
• Experience with cloud providers: GCP, AWS.