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.

Youll 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 working knowledge for occasional cross-stack work.
• Background in IP management legal-tech or regulated B2B SaaS.

Required Experience:

Senior IC