Platform Engineering - Software Engineer

Job Description

The platform engineering software engineer in the LF Education department is responsible for developing and maintaining the delivery platform(P3), which enables LF Education’s hands-on certifications and interactive training labs, and all supporting services. Your development and maintenance efforts will cover everything from learning content/certification exam procurement, delivery, scoring, and learner record management.

The P3 platform is built on cloud native technologies and delivers live interactive training and certification lab environments to thousands of learners every month. The LF Education’s goal is to increase entry-level technical talent for open source technologies while providing a revenue growth platform for the foundation and projects. The P3 platform plays a foundational role in achieving this goal.

Key responsibilities and expectations:

Collaboration - Collaborate closely with stakeholders to identify, understand, and document project requirements. Additionally, the ability to collaborate effectively with team members, provide and receive constructive feedback, and align with the team's goals is essential to success in this role.

Team Standards - Working within the existing team standards, ensuring consistency in solution delivery and processes, while actively contributing to the continuous improvement of standards based on personal experience, and project need.

Test-Driven Development - Utilize test-driven development methodologies to translate stakeholder needs into high-quality, maintainable solutions.

Personal Growth - Demonstrate a passion for improving expertise and applying new learnings to your work, while sharing learnings with the team that foster improvement and innovation.