What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Platform Engineer position at Lorven Technologies Inc.?
Senior Platform Engineer
Position: Contract
Location: Jersey City, NJ
Duration: 12 month
Job description:
• 8 years of industry experience in platform, infrastructure, or backend engineering
• 5 years of hands-on experience with:
o Envoy Proxy (xDS/ADS, ext_authz, HTTP/2, gRPC, WebSocket) and/or
o Kong API Gateway (plugin development, DB-less mode, Admin API)
• Strong proficiency in Go (Golang), including concurrency patterns and distributed systems design
• Deep experience with Kubernetes (EKS and/or on-prem):
o Helm, HPA, Pod Disruption Budgets, NetworkPolicy, namespace isolation
o GitOps workflows (Argo CD)
• Strong understanding of authentication & security protocols:
o OAuth 2.0, OIDC, PKCE
o mTLS, DPoP, session management patterns
• Experience with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego policy development
• Hands-on experience with observability tooling:
o Open Telemetry (traces, metrics, logs)
o Dynatrace and Splunk SIEM
• Experience with data and messaging systems:
o PostgreSQL (HA, pooling, PITR)
o Kafka (MSK, Schema Registry, DLQ patterns)
• Familiarity with:
o CDN/WAF platforms (Akamai, Cloudflare)
o DNS routing (GeoDNS, GTM, health checks)
o TLS lifecycle management (cert-manager, KMS/HSM)
• Strong foundation in networking (L3–L7), distributed systems, and algorithms
• Proven experience building high-throughput, low-latency, resilient systems
Preferred Qualification:
• Experience with TypeScript/React for internal tooling or dashboards
• Strong background in AWS services (EKS, MSK, Lambda, Direct Connect, Network Firewall)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket Pipelines, GitOps workflows)
• Experience with Continuous Access Evaluation Protocol (CAEP) or similar session revocation systems
• Background in identity platforms (ForgeRock, SAML, token exchange patterns)