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Platform Engineer

Unique System Skills LLCUnited States🇺🇸United StatesPosted 30 Jul 2026

Quick Overview

Work Type
Remote
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

We have an opening for Platform Engineer with fully remote. Kindly apply with your updated resume if you are interested. Please find the job details below:

Position: Platform Engineer

Location: Remote

Duration: 12 Months Contract position

Requirements:

  • 6+ years of backend software engineering experience, with a strong record of shipping production services at scale.
  • Proven, hands-on proficiency in Go and/or Rust you write these languages regularly and can demonstrate production systems you have built with them.
  • Solid experience building and operating distributed data systems: event streaming (Kafka, Kinesis, or equivalent), time-series databases, and high-throughput ingestion pipelines.
  • Strong fundamentals in distributed systems: consistency models, failure modes, backpressure, idempotency, and exactly-once vs. at-least-once processing trade-offs.
  • Experience with cloud-native deployment: containerization (Docker), Kubernetes orchestration, and operating services across at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure).
  • Familiarity with observability tooling structured logging, metrics (PrometheGrafana or equivalent), and distributed tracing (Open Telemetry or equivalent).
  • Comfortable writing SQL and working with both relational and time-series data models; experience with schema design and query optimization.
  • Strong engineering practices: test-driven or test-informed development, code review, CI/CD, and operational ownership including on-call.

Skills

Docker
Rust
SQL
AWS
Azure
Google Cloud
Kafka
Kubernetes

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