Senior Software Engineer - Platform Engineering

What is SeekOut?   

SeekOut is a leader in AI-driven talent optimization, helping organizations recruit, reskill, and redeploy talent with AI-driven solutions. SeekOut transforms how companies build winning teams by empowering organizations to align talent strategy with business strategy via breakthrough agentic AI solutions. Our software and services help companies ensure that they hire the right people and match their talent to the highest-impact roles to drive business success. 

What are we looking to add to our team?     

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will design and evolve core platform capabilities that power multiple product teams. Your work will focus on building scalable, secure, and reliable systems that abstract complexity, improve developer productivity, and support rapid business growth. 

You will own critical shared infrastructure used by multiple engineering teams, ensuring systems handle hundreds of millions of data points with sub‑second latency and high fault tolerance. 

Your work will involve creating data pipelines, core search infrastructure, and API development 

We are looking for candidates who share a passion for tackling large scale challenges and building platforms that can scale through multiple orders of magnitude.   

What you will be doing:  

• Design and own core platform services, data pipelines and shared frameworks, and APIs used across multiple product teams 

• Build scalable, low-latency infrastructure with strong reliability and observability guarantees 

• Enable product teams through self-service tooling, abstractions, and clear documentation 

• Lead platform architecture decisions with long-term system health in mind (build vs buy, abstraction layers) 

• Owning SLIs/SLOs, observability, and incident response 

• Participate directly in on-call, incident reviews, and resilience planning 

• Providing technical leadership, coaching and mentoring  

• Taking ownership of a feature area and delivering consistent improvements  

• Driving features end-to-end from ideation to delivery, working closely with other Engineers and Product Managers 

 You will be a great match if you have:  

• Belief in Kindness, Gratitude, and Curiosity!     

• At least 6-8 years of software engineering experience focused on building robust services in cloud environments  

• Experience in designing and implementing robust frameworks that empower diverse product features and functionalities 

• Experience working in object-oriented programming languages, such as C# or Java  

• Software Engineering experience across multiple complete software development lifecycles  

• Experience building cloud base production infrastructure with Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) 

• Experience leading large scale, technically complex projects with numerous stakeholders 

Our Dedication to a Diverse Workforce: 

SeekOut condemns discrimination, racism, and racial injustice in all forms. Committed to attracting and retaining a diverse staff, SeekOut will honor your experiences, perspectives, and unique identity. Together, we strive to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable and welcoming. We are accelerating our efforts through our products and policies to take action and advance definitive, measurable policies and practices that eliminate racism and discrimination.   

We celebrate the cultural values of being:  

• An inclusive and diverse place where employees can bring their whole selves to work.   
• A collaborative team where people come together to brainstorm and communicate ideas.   
• Focused on customer success and delight.  
• Committed to continual learning and growth. 

SeekOut is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  We are committed to inclusion of all individuals and will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application process.  If you require assistance or accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact HR@seekout.com.