Sr. Software Development Engineer, Platform Engineering
Job Overview
We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Platform Engineering Team, responsible for building and maintaining the foundational infrastructure, tools, and workflows that enable seamless software development and delivery at PitchBook. This role is ideal for an experienced engineer who is passionate about developer enablement, automation, and scalable cloud platforms.
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will design, build, and enhance our internal platforms, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes infrastructure, and developer tooling. You will work closely with developers, SREs, and security teams to create self-service solutions that empower product teams to deploy, manage, and scale their services efficiently.
This is a high-impact role where you will contribute to the vision, architecture, and strategy of our platform while ensuring reliability, security, and cost-efficiency. If you thrive in solving complex engineering challenges, automating infrastructure, and improving developer workflows, we want to hear from you!
Team Overview
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.
Working Conditions
The job conditions for this position are in a standard office setting. Employees in this position use PC and phone on an on-going basis throughout the day. Limited corporate travel may be required to remote offices or other business meetings and events.
Morningstar’s hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week. We’ve found that we’re at our best when we’re purposely together on a regular basis, at least three days each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you’ll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.
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At PitchBook, we’re on the lookout for a Senior Software Development Engineer in Platform Engineering to join our vibrant team in Mumbai. If you have a passion for developing tools and workflows that make software development seamless, this could be the perfect opportunity for you! In this role, you’ll be a key player in building and maintaining our foundational infrastructure, driving developer enablement, and automating processes across our cloud platforms. Your expertise will help enhance our internal systems, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes infrastructure, resulting in innovative self-service solutions for our product teams. You'll work alongside talented developers, Site Reliability Engineers, and security experts to create robust, efficient services that prioritize reliability and security. As a senior member of our team, you will not only be responsible for the technical aspects but also contribute to our overall strategy and architecture. Here at PitchBook, we believe in fostering an environment where collaboration and continuous learning are paramount. If you thrive on solving complex engineering challenges and can articulate technical concepts to various audiences, we want to hear from you. Join us at PitchBook and help us build a platform that enhances the developer experience, making software delivery fast, efficient, and enjoyable.
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