Platform Engineer
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Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design, build, and maintenance of backend services and APIs using Node.js and TypeScript
- Support development of modular, service-oriented architecture for data ingestion, transformation, and access
- Help ensure platform services integrate with: data contracts and schema validation
- metadata, lineage, and governance systems
- Write clean, testable code with emphasis on unit and integration testing
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
- Participate in design and code reviews, learning and applying engineering best practices
- Debug and troubleshoot issues in development and production environments
- Collaborate with engineers across platform, data, and governance teams
Requirements
- 3+ years of software engineering experience
- Proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript (or similar backend technologies)
- Understanding of: object-oriented design
- basic design patterns
- API and service development
- Experience building or contributing to backend services or distributed systems
- Familiarity with testing practices (unit, integration, mocking)
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and development workflows
- Strong willingness to learn, ask questions, and take ownership of work
- Comfortable working in a collaborative, fast-moving environment
- Exposure to data systems (pipelines, warehouses, or lakehouse architectures)
- Familiarity with observability concepts (logs, metrics, tracing)
- Experience working in cloud environments
Benefits
Additional Information
Versant Media's Data Platforms team is the central data store across the enterprise. We unify disparate systems into a secure, well-governed, real-time data environment that powers downstream products, analytics, and content delivery experiences. We are seeking a Platform Engineer to contribute to the development of backend services and core platform components that power our data platform. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building scalable systems, improving developer workflows, and growing into broader platform ownership over time. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone early in their career who is building a strong foundation in software engineering while developing expertise in platform systems, infrastructure, and operational tooling.
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