Platforms Engineer I

Swiss Re

Bangalore, Karnataka

Full-time · Hybrid

As a Platform Engineer within the Data Platforms SRE unit, you will play a key role in shaping and strengthening the engineering foundations behind Swiss Re’s structured and unstructured data platforms, including Palantir Foundry and DocuSign. This is a highly impactful role at the intersection of platform engineering, DevOps, software development, and data architecture. You will help design and build scalable, resilient solutions that enable teams across Swiss Re to develop, deploy, and operate data-driven applications with confidence. You will combine hands-on engineering with architectural thinking, driving automation, reliability, security, and engineering excellence across our platforms. In your day-to-day work, you will design and implement automated, reliable, and maintainable software and data-transformation delivery processes, while continuously improving how these solutions are operated in production.

Spearhead the design and development of complex data and software engineering solutions, establishing best practices while simplifying implementation choices. Drive the continuous and incremental evolution of existing solutions, improving their scalability, reliability, maintainability, and developer & customer experience. Advance the prescriptive capabilities of our platforms in line with industry developments in data analytics, access modelling, security, and engineering standards. Collaborate with senior stakeholders across the business to identify and prioritise high-value opportunities, translating business needs into scalable and resilient data solutions, integrations, and analytics applications Review solution designs and implementations, ensuring alignment with architectural principles, engineering standards, security requirements, and internal guidelines Design, implement, and continuously enhance CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices, enabling automated, dependable, and repeatable build, deployment, and operational processes.

Skills: Java 8+, SQL, OpenAPI, RESTful API, Palantir Foundry, Python, Apache Spark, Terraform, Kubernetes, CloudInit, deployment automation, AWS, Azure, GCP.

Application deadline: Not specified