Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SGS is a global testing, inspection, and certification company. It is seeking a founding product and platform engineer to architect and build customer-facing digital products, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and reusable engineering platform capabilities. The role also establishes engineering standards, improves delivery velocity, and mentors engineering, product, and design partners.
Responsibilities
- **Lead by Building:** Act as the technical lead on our most important initiatives, architecting through code and setting the standard for engineering excellence
- **Own the Full Stack:** Design and develop solutions across frontend, backend, cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines
- **Build the Paved Road:** Shape our platform (CI/CD, Kubernetes, IaC, observability) so other engineers ship faster and more safely
- **Turn Solutions into Reusable Capabilities:** Identify successful patterns and convert them into shared services, frameworks, libraries and architectural standards
- **Multiply Velocity:** Continuously remove friction from the development lifecycle through automation, standardisation and thoughtful platform design
- **Mentor and Influence:** Partner with engineers, product leads and designers to raise technical standards and encourage a culture of pragmatic, high-quality delivery
Skills
- **Full Stack Mastery:** Expert-level React/TypeScript on the frontend, and deep experience building distributed backends in Go, Python, or TypeScript
- **Cloud & IaC:** Hands-on, architectural-level experience with a major cloud (GCP, AWS) and Terraform. You don't just use it; you architect with it
- **Containers & CI/CD:** Strong knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD pipelines built from scratch (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
- **Systems Thinking:** Proven ability to design scalable, resilient and observable systems
- **Product Mindset:** Experience working closely with Product and Design teams to deliver solutions that users genuinely value
- **Observability & Quality:** Practical understanding of monitoring, tracing, testing and operational excellence, including tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and Jaeger
- * You have 10+ years of experience, with strong backgrounds in both product engineering and platform/SRE work
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
- Collaborative and inclusive work environment
- Opportunities for professional growth and development
- Opportunities to learn, grow your expertise, and fulfill your potential
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