Senior Platform Engineer — Java + GCP

Job description

Senior Platform Engineer — Java + GCP Join the platform team that owns the foundations the rest of engineering builds on. Position Overview: Anaqua is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to join our platform team. Together with the team you will build the shared microservices and Spring Boot libraries every product team consumes, help shape company-wide standards for hosting, application security, deployment and monitoring, and contribute to the multi-region high-availability story for the new Anaqua / RightHub stack on GCP. Hands-on Java. Hands-on infra. Senior individual contributor — not a lead or manager role. You'll love this job if you like to: Build shared Spring Boot services and libraries with the team — auth, async tasks, replication, observability defaults — that every product team builds on top of. Help shape the company-wide playbook for how services get deployed, secured, monitored and rolled back. Work alongside the team on multi-region GCP — GKE, global load balancing, autoscaling, zero-downtime deploys with Helm and GitLab CI. Contribute to edge and application security — gateway policies, API key and JWT issuance, dependency hygiene, GCP IAM least-privilege. Take part in architectural decisions on event sourcing, Pub/Sub topology, schema design and service boundaries — and document them so the rest of engineering can follow. Show up for design reviews and platform RFCs alongside the rest of the team. What you will need to be successful Deep production Java with Spring Boot — comfortable with transactional boundaries, connection pools, JVM behaviour under load and how things actually break in production. Hands-on experience building shared platform libraries or Spring Boot starters that other teams consume — this is the headline ask. Strong infrastructure and DevOps chops on a major public cloud (GCP preferred) — Kubernetes in production (GKE), Helm, multi-region deploys, autoscaling, rollbacks. Terraform as a daily tool — modules per service, IAM, networking, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL. Hosting and application security ownership — gateway and edge policies, secret management, dependency scanning, IAM hygiene. PostgreSQL depth — schema design, indexing, query plans, migrations under load, JSONB-heavy data modelling. Event sourcing and asynchronous messaging — designing aggregates and events, integrating services via GCP Pub/Sub, idempotency and ordering. Contract-first APIs with OpenAPI — the schema is the source of truth. Production observability and incident response on GCP — structured logging, alerting, debugging distributed flows. Strong testing discipline — unit and integration tests against real Postgres and Pub/Sub as part of normal development. Excellent written and spoken English. AI-first mindset Treats AI tooling as a daily collaborator, not a gimmick — Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot in the dev loop. Designs platform contracts (OpenAPI, typed events, structured logs) so AI agents and humans can both work against them. Has a view on AI in the SDLC — agent-assisted code review, AI-generated runbooks, codegen scaffolding. Sensible about secrets, audit trails and data boundaries when AI integrations touch internal systems. Professional skills and mindset End-to-end on your work — designs, ships, monitors and debugs. Writes — design docs, RFCs, runbooks. Decisions get documented, not just made. Pragmatic — ships value before perfect abstractions. Raises the bar with peers, not by gate-keeping; happy to share knowledge across the team. Comfortable making calls under ambiguity and changing them when the data says so. Strong customer and business empathy — connects platform work back to product impact. Plays well in a small senior team — opinions held lightly, decisions made together. A plus, not required GCP Professional Cloud Architect (or equivalent) certification. gRPC, Envoy or GKE Gateway API experience. Experience working on an internal developer platform or “golden path” for service teams. React or Next.js working knowledge for occasional cross-stack work. Background in IP management, legal-tech or regulated B2B SaaS.