Senior Platform Engineer

NinjaTrader

Sr. Platform Engineer I at NinjaTrader designing and building developer experience tools.

Posted 4/28/2026full-timeChicago • California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $165,000 - $180,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

Benefits

Comp & perks

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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Hard Skills & Tools

CI/CD pipelinesKubernetesDockerPythonGoBashInfrastructure as CodeTerraformHelmcloud platforms

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationdocumentationdeveloper experience