Job Overview
Job description
- Location:
- Worldwide
- Work arrangement:
- Remote
Role Summary
We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to provide US-hours production support and platform engineering for the Product Catalog application. This role focuses on diagnosing and resolving connection, latency, and stability issues across the AWS-based Product Catalog stack, including Apigee, Rancher/Kubernetes, and the C# services.
The engineer will work closely with existing offshore resources and key stakeholders to ensure application reliability and performance during US business hours.
Responsibilities
- Provide US-hours production support for Product Catalog, focusing on connection, latency, and general performance issues.
- Triage and troubleshoot issues across the AWS, Apigee, Rancher/Kubernetes, C# services, and database layers.
- Investigate and resolve problems with API calls , including timeouts, missing logs, and routing/connection failures.
- Collaborate with offshore teams who implemented the AWS migration to stabilize and optimize the current environment.
- Work with Product Catalog stakeholders to identify root causes and drive sustainable fixes, not just workarounds.
- Support and optimize the C# codebase that powers Product Catalog and its API integrations.
- Develop proficiency in Product Catalog's rules engine and SQL-based rules storage , gradually taking on non‑production rules work to offload Sr Support Engineers.
- Participate in knowledge sharing and documentation to reduce single‑point‑of‑failure risk within the Product Catalog team.
Requirements
- AWS Cloud
- Hands-on experience troubleshooting production workloads in AWS
- Familiarity with core services backing an enterprise app (e.g., compute, database, networking, load balancing, monitoring)
- Apigee / API Gateway
- Experience with Apigee / Apigee X (or similar API gateway) in a production environment
- Ability to debug API failures, timeouts, policy issues, and routing problems
- Rancher / Kubernetes
- Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes concepts (pods, deployments, services, scaling)
- Experience using Rancher (or comparable tooling) for cluster and workload management
- Ability to diagnose pod instability, restarts, resource constraints, and related performance issues
- C# / Application Services
- Proficiency in C# and .NET, especially for API and service‑oriented architectures
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills in distributed systems
- Rules / SQL (Nice-to-Have but Important)
- Experience with rules engines or rule-based business logic
- Strong SQL skills for performance analysis and data troubleshooting
- Willingness and aptitude to learn Product Catalog's rules model and support rules work similar to our Senior Engineers over time
- General
- Proven track record providing production support for complex, multi‑tier applications
- Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills; comfortable owning issues end‑to‑end
- Good communication skills for working with both technical teams and business stakeholders during active incidents with the team.
- Cover US Business Hours: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM EST
About the Company
- Open communication and a focus on psychological safety;
- Recognition of achievements and contributions;
- Collaboration across multicultural teams;
Less bureaucracy, more focus on results.
Additional Information
- Intro call
- Technical Interview
- Manager Interview
- Client Interview
- Pre-offer stage + Reference Check (if requested)
- Official Offer
- Role:
- Senior Platform Engineer (Remote EU)
- Job Type:
- Contractor
Company profile
REW Technology
rewtechnology.comREW Technology provides custom software development, product design, QA, and consultancy services that help businesses elevate their value. It assists customers with their Microsoft technology stack, including implementations, migrations, and support, and offers digital transformation, artificial intelligence and AI-powered solutions. REW focuses on creating software solutions and infrastructure, and says it has partnered with businesses across every major industry for nearly 20 years.