Senior Platform Engineer — Java + GCP

Senior Platform Engineer — Java + GCP

 

Join the platform team that owns the foundations the rest of engineering builds on.

 

Position Overview:

Anaqua is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to join our platform team. Together with the team you will build the shared microservices and Spring Boot libraries every product team consumes, help shape company-wide standards for hosting, application security, deployment and monitoring, and contribute to the multi-region high-availability story for the new Anaqua / RightHub stack on GCP. Hands-on Java. Hands-on infra. Senior individual contributor — not a lead or manager role.

You'll love this job if you like to:

 

• Build shared Spring Boot services and libraries with the team — auth, async tasks, replication, observability defaults — that every product team builds on top of.

• Help shape the company-wide playbook for how services get deployed, secured, monitored and rolled back.

• Work alongside the team on multi-region GCP — GKE, global load balancing, autoscaling, zero-downtime deploys with Helm and GitLab CI.

• Contribute to edge and application security — gateway policies, API key and JWT issuance, dependency hygiene, GCP IAM least-privilege.

• Take part in architectural decisions on event sourcing, Pub/Sub topology, schema design and service boundaries — and document them so the rest of engineering can follow.

• Show up for design reviews and platform RFCs alongside the rest of the team.

 

What you will need to be successful

 

• Deep production Java with Spring Boot — comfortable with transactional boundaries, connection pools, JVM behaviour under load and how things actually break in production.

• Hands-on experience building shared platform libraries or Spring Boot starters that other teams consume — this is the headline ask.

• Strong infrastructure and DevOps chops on a major public cloud (GCP preferred) — Kubernetes in production (GKE), Helm, multi-region deploys, autoscaling, rollbacks.

• Terraform as a daily tool — modules per service, IAM, networking, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL.

• Hosting and application security ownership — gateway and edge policies, secret management, dependency scanning, IAM hygiene.

• PostgreSQL depth — schema design, indexing, query plans, migrations under load, JSONB-heavy data modelling.

• Event sourcing and asynchronous messaging — designing aggregates and events, integrating services via GCP Pub/Sub, idempotency and ordering.

• Contract-first APIs with OpenAPI — the schema is the source of truth.

• Production observability and incident response on GCP — structured logging, alerting, debugging distributed flows.

• Strong testing discipline — unit and integration tests against real Postgres and Pub/Sub as part of normal development.

• Excellent written and spoken English.

 

AI-first mindset

 

• Treats AI tooling as a daily collaborator, not a gimmick — Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot in the dev loop.

• Designs platform contracts (OpenAPI, typed events, structured logs) so AI agents and humans can both work against them.

• Has a view on AI in the SDLC — agent-assisted code review, AI-generated runbooks, codegen scaffolding.

• Sensible about secrets, audit trails and data boundaries when AI integrations touch internal systems.

 

Professional skills and mindset

 

• End-to-end on your work — designs, ships, monitors and debugs.

• Writes — design docs, RFCs, runbooks. Decisions get documented, not just made.

• Pragmatic — ships value before perfect abstractions.

• Raises the bar with peers, not by gate-keeping; happy to share knowledge across the team.

• Comfortable making calls under ambiguity and changing them when the data says so.

• Strong customer and business empathy — connects platform work back to product impact.

• Plays well in a small senior team — opinions held lightly, decisions made together.

 

A plus, not required

 

• GCP Professional Cloud Architect (or equivalent) certification.

• gRPC, Envoy or GKE Gateway API experience.

• Experience working on an internal developer platform or “golden path” for service teams.

• React or Next.js working knowledge for occasional cross-stack work.

• Background in IP management, legal-tech or regulated B2B SaaS.