Lead Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

🔥 14 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $145k - $160k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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ITHAKA

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1995

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📚 Education

Consulting • Logistics • Education

ITHAKA is a nonprofit organization that improves access to knowledge and education worldwide by operating digital libraries and preservation services, conducting research and advising colleges, and developing tools and programs to support teaching, learning, and scholarly communication. Its suite of services includes JSTOR, Portico, and other platforms that deliver scholarly journals, books, images, and primary sources to students, researchers, libraries, and publishers, while also advancing initiatives in open access, college affordability, credit mobility, and preservation of digital collections.

📋 Description

• Architect, develop, and maintain internal platforms, services, and tooling supporting CI/CD, automation, and software delivery • Drive the development platform product life cycle, including CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, platform automation, and productivity tooling • Apply DevOps and enablement methodologies to improve development velocity, reliability, quality, and operational efficiency • Partner with product, platform, and application engineering teams to improve developer workflows and platform usability • Champion intuitive, accessible, well-documented developer enablement tools aligned with user needs • Mentor and coach engineers on architecture, coding standards, DevOps practices, and UI/UX considerations • Facilitate technical deep dives, design reviews, and training sessions • Assess, prototype, trial, implement, and sunset technologies as fit for purpose • Collaborate on internal platform roadmaps and translate organizational goals into technical initiatives • Take shared responsibility for production code reliability, maintainability, security, and evolution • Participate in incident response, production support, troubleshooting, and remediation • Improve availability, alerting, performance, capacity, cost, recovery, and technical debt practices • Turn operational learning into platform and usage improvements

🎯 Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years as a full-stack software engineer delivering large-scale, distributed web applications • Ability to act as a strategic product thinker and community builder • Ability to design and develop scalable backend services and RESTful APIs • Hands-on development of user-facing or internal web applications using modern frontend frameworks such as React or Vue • UI/UX and accessibility best practices • Working knowledge of CI/CD concepts, automation, and software delivery pipelines • Experience with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar • Practical expertise contributing to or operating internal developer platforms, enablement tooling, or shared services • Strong experience with AWS, including EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, or EKS • Experience deploying applications using Docker and Kubernetes • Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform • Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems • Ability to troubleshoot, debug, and optimize performance across the stack • Comfort collaborating in Agile, cross-functional, distributed, or self-directed teams • Strong communication skills for articulating technical concepts, designs, and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans • Employer-paid 10% retirement contribution • Paid parental and caregiver leave • 22 days of paid time off • 11 paid holidays • Up to 12 sick days • Wellness benefits • Onboarding, mentorship, and continuous learning support