Platform Engineer
Versant Medias Data Platforms team is the central data store across the enterprise. We unify disparate systems into a secure, well-governed, real-time data environment that powers downstream products, analytics, and content delivery experiences.
We are seeking a Platform Engineer to contribute to the development of backend services and core platform components that power our data platform. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building scalable systems, improving developer workflows, and growing into broader platform ownership over time.
This is a hands-on engineering role for someone early in their career who is building a strong foundation in software engineering while developing expertise in platform systems, infrastructure, and operational tooling.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design, build, and maintenance of backend services and APIs using Node.js and TypeScript
- Support development of modular, service-oriented architecture for data ingestion, transformation, and access
- Help ensure platform services integrate with:
- data contracts and schema validation
- metadata, lineage, and governance systems
- Write clean, testable code with emphasis on unit and integration testing
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
- Participate in design and code reviews, learning and applying engineering best practices
- Debug and troubleshoot issues in development and production environments
- Collaborate with engineers across platform, data, and governance teams
