Senior Platform Engineer -AI / Platform Lead

Description We are looking for a highly hands-on Senior Platform Engineer to lead and shape our platform engineering and developer experience capabilities. This role is responsible for building the engineering foundations that enable teams to develop, ship, and operate software faster, safer, and with greater confidence. You will drive improvements across platform engineering, developer workflows, CI/CD, observability, release management, and engineering productivity.

This is an individual contributor role with significant influence across engineering teams and the opportunity to grow into platform leadership as the function evolves.

What You'll Do

Define and execute a practical platform roadmap spanning CI/CD, release automation, environments, observability, developer workflows, and engineering productivity. Build internal tools, automation, templates, paved roads, and reusable patterns that simplify software delivery across engineering teams. Improve local development experiences, deployment processes, environment stability, and production visibility.

Increase delivery confidence through automated validation, quality controls, release guardrails, and rapid production feedback loops. Partner closely with product engineering teams to identify delivery bottlenecks and convert them into platform improvements. Operate with a platform-as-a-product mindset, treating engineering teams as internal customers and focusing on adoption, usability, and measurable impact.

Leverage DORA, developer experience (DX), and engineering productivity metrics to prioritize investments and track outcomes. Establish AI-first engineering workflows for coding, debugging, documentation, reviews, and automation using modern AI development tools and agent-based workflows. Raise engineering standards through technical leadership, architecture discussions, code reviews, design reviews, mentoring, and practical examples.

Lead through influence, collaboration, and technical expertise.

What You'll Bring

7+ years of experience in platform engineering, developer experience, engineering productivity, internal tooling, DevOps, software infrastructure, or related disciplines. Proven experience building or significantly improving platform engineering, developer experience, or shared services functions. Strong hands-on engineering capabilities with a track record of building the systems and tools you advocate for.

Experience creating scalable developer platforms, internal tooling, automation frameworks, paved roads, and reusable engineering patterns. Deep understanding of CI/CD, release automation, observability, cloud infrastructure, environments, and production operations. Ability to drive cross-functional initiatives and influence technical direction across multiple engineering teams.

Strong communication skills and the ability to build trust through technical expertise and sound judgment. A practical approach to AI-enabled software development focused on measurable engineering outcomes rather than experimentation alone. Technology & Tools Required Strong hands-on experience with AWS and modern cloud-native architectures.

Experience building and operating solutions leveraging AWS services such as: ECS EC2 Lambda S3 IAM VPC Cloud. Watch Preferred Experience Go, Python, C#, .NET, or other platform-focused programming languages. Kubernetes and container orchestration technologies. Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform. CI/CD platforms including GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, ArgoCD, or similar.

Observability platforms such as Datadog, Grafana, Cloud. Watch, or comparable solutions. Engineering productivity and developer experience measurement tools. AI-powered development tools, coding assistants, agent-based workflows, and automation platforms.

Nice to Have

Production-grade Go development experience. Experience supporting or modernizing large-scale C#/.NET environments. TypeScript, React, or frontend platform engineering experience. Internal developer portals, service scaffolding, golden-path frameworks, and platform-as-a-product practices. Legacy modernization initiatives within mature SaaS environments.

Experience in transactional or workflow-intensive industries such as payments, financial technology, accounting, eCommerce, real estate technology, or similar domains. Security-focused engineering, compliance-aware development, policy-as-code, and access control frameworks. What Success Looks Like Engineering teams have clear, reliable, and well-documented paths for building, testing, deploying, and operating services.

CI/CD pipelines, environments, and release processes become more reliable, scalable, and developer-friendly. Observability and production feedback loops support faster troubleshooting and improved operational confidence. AI-assisted development workflows become practical, trusted, repeatable, and integrated into day-to-day engineering practices.

Platform initiatives are prioritized based on measurable engineering friction and demonstrable business impact. Developer productivity, delivery speed, quality, and engineering satisfaction improve over time . WHY JOIN US Matrix is a global, dynamic, and fast‑growing technology services and consulting company with over 17,000 employees worldwide .

Founded in 2001, Matrix has grown through significant organic expansion and strategic acquisitions, executing some of the largest and most impactful technology projects in the market. We specialize in the design, development, and implementation of advanced technologies, software solutions, and digital products. Our services include infrastructure and consulting, IT outsourcing and offshore delivery, training and assimilation programs, and acting as a trusted implementation and delivery partner for the world’s leading software vendors.

With deep expertise across both the private and public sectors—spanning Finance, Telecom, Healthcare, Hi‑Tech, Education, Defense, and Security —Matrix serves a strong customer base in Israel alongside a continuously expanding global client portfolio. At Matrix, our people are at the heart of our success. We are a community of talented, creative, and dedicated professionals who are passionate about innovation and excellence.

We actively attract, develop, and retain top talent, recognizing that every employee’s contribution is critical to our continued growth and future success. Matrix’s success is built on a challenging and engaging work environment , competitive compensation and benefits, and meaningful career development opportunities. We foster a diverse, inclusive culture that encourages collaboration, continuous learning, and growth—together.

Join the winning team. Be challenged, grow your career, and enjoy the journey in a highly respected global organization. To learn more, visit: www.matrix-ifs.com EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER: Matrix is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind. Matrix is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees, providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.

All employment decisions at Matrix are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in our locations. Matrix will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

Matrix encourages applicants of all ages .

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