[Remote] Sr. Platform Engineer I

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NinjaTrader is an industry-leading trading platform and futures broker dedicated to empowering traders. They are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer I to enhance developer experience by designing and building tools and workflows that improve productivity across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain golden paths for service creation, including service templates, starter kits, and scaffolding tools that let teams go from zero to production-ready with minimal friction
• Own developer onboarding workflows and maintain high-quality platform documentation
• Establish and evolve CI/CD pipeline standards across the organization
• Design release automation patterns, including rollout safety mechanisms such as canary deployments, progressive delivery, and automated rollbacks
• Build and maintain internal platform portals, reusable infrastructure modules, and paved-road workflows
• Enable product engineering teams to provision resources, configure environments, and ship features independently without reliance on other teams
• Champion platform adoption through clear documentation, enablement sessions, and a consultative approach
• Measure developer satisfaction and platform adoption metrics to continuously improve the experience
• Partner with product engineering, infrastructure, and operations teams to ensure platform tooling meets cross-platform needs
• Translate engineering pain points into scalable platform capabilities
• Embed security and compliance requirements such as SOC2 and PCI-DSS into platform tooling and CI/CD pipelines

Skills

• 8+ years in platform engineering, DevOps, or developer tooling roles with a strong focus on developer experience
• Deep experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions, including release automation and deployment safety patterns
• Strong expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration in the context of self-service abstractions
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash with experience building internal tools and automation
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and Helm
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, including designing developer-facing abstractions
• Strong collaboration, communication, and documentation skills with a focus on internal developer experience
• Experience building or contributing to internal developer portals such as Backstage
• Familiarity with platform engineering frameworks and a platform-as-a-product mindset
• Trading or financial services industry experience
• Contributions to open-source projects

Benefits

• Annual target bonus of 12%. Bonus pay at NinjaTrader is based on individual performance (50%) as well as company/team performance (50%)
• 401K plan through ADP under which the company will match up to 3.5% of employee contributions
• Annual paid time off allowance accrues at a rate of 18 days per year (some positions may qualify for more) plus seven paid holidays
• Remote flexibility for exceptional candidates in the following states: California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington DC, Wisconsin
• Hybrid work schedule: In-office Tuesday through Thursday, with remote work on Mondays and Fridays
• 20 additional flex remote days annually
• 5 Company Wide Office-Optional weeks tied to major holidays
• Generous PTO
• 7 Paid Holidays Annually + 5 Conditional Holidays Annually
• 1 Service Day Annually
• 401k with 3.5% Company Match
• Paid Parental Bonding Leave
• Health, Vision, Dental Coverage
• Life and Disability Insurance Covered 100% by NinjaTrader

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