
Senior Pessoa Platform Engineer
Starian
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Brazil
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About the role
- Strong experience with API architecture and design: REST, OpenAPI Spec, versioning and contract design; integration patterns such as webhooks and event-driven architectures; and tools for governance, documentation and contract validation (e.g., Swagger/Redocly/Postman/Spectral).
- Hands-on experience with API Gateways in an enterprise context (e.g., KrakenD, Kong), evaluating trade-offs in performance, security and cost.
- Knowledge of IAM and integration security: OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, mTLS, access policies and zero-trust principles.
- Experience with messaging/event streaming (Kafka) in event-driven architectures and to support integrations (including webhooks).
- Understanding of scalability and resilience patterns: stateless services, caching, rate limiting, circuit breakers.
- Advanced troubleshooting ability in distributed environments, making decisions under pressure and responding to critical incidents.
- Experience with end-to-end observability for distributed services and APIs (OpenTelemetry and metrics/traces/logs stack such as Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger).
- Technologies in our stack include: Java, Kotlin, Node.js, Go, JUnit, Mockito, Git, Hibernate and others.
- Digital mindset, curiosity about new technologies and interest in understanding how Artificial Intelligence can transform processes, experiences and outcomes.
Requirements
- Experience with CI/CD and automation (GitLab CI or similar): pipelines with automated validations (lint, schema validation), deployment strategies and continuous quality.
- Experience with APIOps/GitOps and self-service models for product teams (API lifecycle governance via repository and automations).
- Practical experience using AI-based tools (LLMs, copilots, intelligent automations) to increase productivity, generate and review code, produce documentation and assist troubleshooting.
- Ability to apply AI to API governance and evolution (e.g., automatic contract analysis, breaking-change detection, pattern suggestion).
Benefits
- Meal allowance / Food voucher;
- Health and dental insurance;
- Home office allowance;
- Profit-sharing (Participation in Profits and Results);
- Voucher for a setup kit;
- Life insurance;
- Birthday day off;
- GoGood | Nav;
- Health and wellness promotion program;
- Partnerships and discounts.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
API architectureRESTOpenAPI SpecAPI GatewaysOAuth2OIDCJWTKafkaJavaKotlin
Soft Skills
troubleshootingdecision makingresponding to critical incidentscuriositydigital mindset