Senior Platform Engineer

Monroe Consulting Group, an Executive Recruitment firm, is partnering with a leading organisation in the Information Technology sector to hire a Senior Platform Engineer. This opportunity is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Position Overview

Design, build, and evolve core platform infrastructure that powers enterprise-grade digital products and intelligent software solutions.
Drive scalability, reliability, and engineering excellence by developing foundational systems that enable high-impact customer and business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Core Platform Architecture & Development

• Design, build, and evolve critical platform components such as API services, workflow engines, orchestration systems, data processing infrastructure, and intelligent platform services.
• Own major platform subsystems, including architecture, implementation, testing, and long-term maintainability.
• Ensure platform components are robust, extensible, and production-ready.

Platform Enablement

• Identify operational and technical challenges impacting delivery teams and customer deployments.
• Build abstractions, APIs, and tooling that improve implementation efficiency and deployment reliability.
• Translate real-world deployment learnings into scalable platform capabilities.

Technical Excellence & Engineering Standards

• Establish and uphold standards for code quality, testing, observability, performance, and reliability.
• Review solution designs and code while providing mentorship and technical guidance.
• Drive engineering best practices for building and operating complex production systems.

Infrastructure & Platform Evolution

• Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies, frameworks, databases, and platform tooling.
• Make strategic decisions on platform capabilities, technical investments, and architectural direction.
• Contribute to long-term platform and infrastructure strategy.

Scalability, Reliability & Cost Optimisation

• Design systems capable of supporting large-scale data processing and operational workloads.
• Address challenges related to performance, fault tolerance, observability, security, and cost optimisation.
• Ensure platforms meet enterprise expectations for uptime, resilience, and operational stability.

Key Requirements

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 4-8 years of professional experience building backend, infrastructure, platform, or distributed systems.
• Proven experience designing and operating production-grade distributed systems.
• Experience working within cloud-native and enterprise technology environments.
• Ability to operate independently and make sound technical decisions in complex environments.

Technical / Functional Expertise

• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including system design, testing, scalability, and maintainability.
• Proven experience building cloud-native solutions on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and containerisation technologies such as Terraform and Docker.
• Strong proficiency in at least one backend or systems programming language, including Go, Python, Java, or TypeScript.
• Experience building platforms, frameworks, or shared services used across multiple teams.
• Strong understanding of APIs, workflow orchestration, and distributed architecture principles.
• Experience with data ingestion, transformation, and large-scale data processing.
• Familiarity with modern AI infrastructure, Large Language Models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector databases, or intelligent automation platforms.
• Experience with enterprise data platforms and modern cloud ecosystems is advantageous.

Soft Skills & Leadership Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to mentor and guide technical teams.
• Strong ownership mindset with a focus on quality and continuous improvement.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
• Collaborative approach to working across engineering and business functions.
• Adaptability and sound judgement in fast-paced and evolving environments.