Platform Engineer

Versant Media’s 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