Software Engineer (Developer Platform)

Job description

CSIT develops products to advance the national security interests of Singapore. We use our products in a wide range of use-cases, including but not limited to Counter-terrorism and Computer Network Defence. Software product development is an involved process. Our product teams need to be well supported with an integrated platform and infrastructure that enable them to deliver software quickly and efficiently. We are looking for talented platform engineers that are passionate about developer experience to join us in building and expanding this foundational platform that accelerates our developers’ productivity. ### Role - As a software engineer in our dynamic developer platform team, you will contribute to the development and maintenance of software toolchain, services, and automation on our cloud infrastructure to aid our engineers in software development. You will be an engineers’ engineer, collaborating closely with product teams to ensure an excellent software development experience. ### Responsibilities - Design, build, and maintain features and automation for our developer platform, which includes a range of cloud services and APIs used by our developers to build and deploy exciting applications - Work with engineers across our entire software development stack to improve software delivery performance - Collaborate with other platform and infra teams to ensure seamless integration between our developer platform and other services in our private cloud - Write clean codes, participate in code reviews, and provide feedback to other engineers - Proactively improve availability, performance, efficiency, monitoring and emergency response for our platform and infrastructure ### Requirements (Minimum Qualifications) - Background in computer science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience - At least 2 years of experience in software development using one or more general purpose programming languages (e.g. Python, Java) ### Nice to Haves - Experience working with containerization technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes - Familiarity with API design principles, and experience building and maintaining APIs - Experience working on developer facing systems, cloud services, infrastructure automation, or in a DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) role - Experience in the design and operation of large-scale distributed systems