Lead Platform Engineer
Position SummaryWe are looking for a Lead Platform Engineer to improve the engineering experience across Guardian by identifying opportunities, partnering with engineering teams, and delivering reusable platform capabilities, solutions, and tooling. This role combines hands-on software engineering, technical leadership, and cross-functional collaboration to improve developer productivity, accelerate platform adoption, and reduce friction across the software development lifecycle. Operating across multiple initiatives and domains, you will partner with Engineering Experience leadership to drive work from discovery through delivery and scale engineering enablement across the organization. Success requires strong software engineering fundamentals, familiarity with AI-assisted software development tools, excellent communication skills, and the ability to navigate ambiguity while driving technical work to completion.
You are- A software engineer who has personally designed, built, and shipped production software.
- Comfortable working across multiple teams, technologies, and business domains.
- Able to take a defined initiative and independently drive discovery, planning, implementation, and delivery.
- A strong communicator who can build partnerships and influence technical decisions without direct authority.
- Curious and proactive when faced with ambiguous problems or incomplete requirements.
- Effective working with globally distributed teams across multiple time zones.
- Passionate about improving the developer experience through practical, scalable solutions.
- An advocate for pragmatic engineering practices that balance speed, quality, maintainability, and adoption.
You haveRequired Qualifications
- 7–10 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Demonstrated experience designing, building, and operating production software systems.
- Strong software development skills using technologies such as C#, TypeScript, Java, Python, Go, Kotlin, or similar languages.
- Experience building and supporting production services, APIs, integrations, and automation solutions.
- Proven ability to drive technical initiatives from requirements gathering through implementation and deployment.
- Experience collaborating across multiple engineering teams and organizational boundaries.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience creating technical documentation, implementation plans, and architectural designs.
- Experience working with globally distributed engineering teams.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to operate effectively in environments with evolving requirements and incomplete information.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with developer experience, platform engineering, internal developer platforms, or engineering enablement initiatives.
- Experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or similar technologies.
- Experience with workflow orchestration platforms such as Temporal or similar technologies.
- Experience building integrations across enterprise platforms and services.
- Experience supporting adoption of engineering tools, frameworks, or organizational engineering practices.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted software development tools and engineering productivity solutions.
- Experience designing and implementing metrics, reporting, or engineering intelligence solutions.
You willEngineering Solution Delivery
- Design and build reusable platform capabilities, services, APIs, integrations, tooling, and automation.
- Apply appropriate architectural patterns and modern engineering practices to deliver scalable, maintainable solutions.
- Contribute production-quality code and support solutions through deployment, operational readiness, and adoption.
- Improve developer workflows and platform usability through targeted technical solutions and reusable components.
Engineering Initiative Ownership
- Lead assigned strategic engineering initiatives from approved scope through production delivery.
- Develop implementation plans, sequence work into achievable phases, and coordinate dependencies across teams.
- Partner with application, platform, architecture, and engineering teams to identify challenges and opportunities.
- Conduct discovery to clarify user needs, stakeholders, constraints, dependencies, and success criteria.
- Translate engineering and business needs into solution requirements and technical recommendations.
- Build alignment on priorities and gather feedback to shape solutions and future improvements.
Technical Communication & Enablement
- Present technical recommendations, designs, and implementation approaches to engineers and stakeholders.
- Create clear documentation, implementation guides, onboarding materials, and reusable engineering patterns.
- Facilitate technical discussions and help teams navigate adoption of new capabilities.
- Communicate project status, risks, decisions, and outcomes effectively in both synchronous and asynchronous environments.
- Share lessons learned, best practices, and reusable approaches across teams.
Technical Leadership
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical discussions.
- Promote engineering standards, best practices, and reusable patterns.
- Help establish scalable approaches for platform adoption and engineering enablement.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of engineering processes, tooling, and developer workflows.
- Support operational excellence through reliability, observability, documentation, and maintainability practices.
Reporting RelationshipsAs our Lead Platform Engineer, you will report to our Head of Engineering Experience and Platform, who reports to our Head of Engineering Enablement & Enterprise Architecture.
Location
This position requires working three days a week at a Guardian office in New York, NY; Holmdel, NJ; or Bethlehem, PA.
Travel
No regular travel is required for this position.
Salary Range:
The salary range reflected above is a good faith estimate of base pay for the primary location of the position. The salary for this position ultimately will be determined based on the education, experience, knowledge, and abilities of the successful candidate. In addition to salary, this role may also be eligible for annual, sales, or other incentive compensation.
