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Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must be able to sit on Primary Talent Partners W2 without sponsorship.\n\nDescription:\nThe Torque Team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer operating at or near a Lead Engineer level to help deliver, support, and strategically evolve the enterprise platform that enables secure, governed, data access across company.\n\nWe are prioritizing Software Engineers with Platform Engineering experience over traditional Data Engineers. The ideal candidate builds and operates secure, scalable platform services (APIs, access management, infrastructure automation).\nThis role blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership.\nThe successful candidate will not only build and support platform capabilities but will also help determine the most effective and efficient way to deliver them — thinking beyond individual tickets or teams to the enterprise-wide scale, security, governance, and sustainability of these platforms.\nA technical coding assessment is part of the interview process, and candidates must be able to code hands-on — this is non-negotiable.\n\nKey Responsibilities:\nDelivery & Support\nDesign, build, test, and support — secure, governed, API-driven data access capabilities.\nBuild APIs, automation services, and self-service tooling for platform consumers.\nTroubleshoot production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and improve observability.\nTranslate ambiguous business needs into scalable, enterprise-ready solutions.\nContribute to reusable engineering patterns and platform standards.\nCommunication, Engagement & Availability\nThe Torque Team is primarily NOT co-located, and the majority of collaboration happens through virtual meetings and chat. As a result, strong communication and engagement habits are considered a core job requirement. These skills are as important as technical ability when screening candidates.\nMust be an active, engaged participant in virtual meetings — camera on, prepared, and contributing rather than passively attending.\nMust proactively participate/communicate rather than waiting to be asked, since there is no hallway conversation to catch issues informally.\nMust be comfortable driving and participating in technical discussions, design reviews, and troubleshooting sessions over Teams/virtual channels.\n\nStrategic & Leadership Expectations\nBeyond day-to-day delivery, this engineer is expected to act as a technical leader for the platform portfolio:\nEvaluate solution options for scalability, security, supportability, and enterprise-wide impact\nIdentify the most effective and efficient way to deliver, favoring standardization, automation, and self-service over one-off fixes.\nLead code reviews, design reviews, and pairing.\nPartner with Product Management, Architecture, Cybersecurity, and consuming product teams to balance speed with long-term platform health.\n\nRequirement:\nMinimum Bar\nEngineering Profile\nMust be a Software Engineer with Platform Engineering experience — not a traditional Data Engineer\nOverall Experience\n5+ years in Software, Cloud, or Platform Engineering\n\nRequired Technical Skills:\nAWS Services\nCategory\nServices\nAccess & Security\nIAM, Secrets Manager, API Gateway, Lake Formation (access policy enforcement), Entra AD\nCompute & Containers\nLambda, Kubernetes, EKS, Docker\nStorage & Data\nOpen Table Format S3 (Iceberg), RDS/PostgreSQL, Redshift, Glue (Catalog, ETL, Crawler), Athena\nPlatform & Software Engineering\n\nSkills:\nCoding\nStrong hands-on coding in Python\nInfrastructure\nTerraform Enterprise, Infrastructure as Code, Git\nDelivery\nCI/CD pipelines, API design, GitHub\n\nPreferred / Nice-to-Have:\nSkills:\nStreaming & Messaging\nKafka, Kafka Schema Registry\nAdditional AWS\nStep Functions, SNS, SQS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail\nTooling\nVault/Secrets Management platforms\n\nPrimary Talent Partners is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. 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