Senior Software Engineer - Platform as a Service
Bloomberg is hiring a Senior Software Engineer - Platform as a Service in New York, United States. It pays $160k-$240k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Bloomberg.
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- The posting mentions Kubernetes, distributed systems and platform engineering among its tools and skills.
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Design and operate large-scale Kubernetes integration services and control-plane components for an internal deployment platform.
The Team
BPaaS (Bloomberg Platform-as-a-Service) is Bloomberg’s Kubernetes-based internal deployment platform and the default environment for running a growing portion of our production workloads. It underpins service deployment and lifecycle management across the organization and plays a central role in engineering productivity and production stability.
The BPaaS Integrations team builds and operates the services that connect the platform to critical Bloomberg infrastructure systems, including proprietary middleware, deployment approval workflows, certificate lifecycle automation, and other control-plane dependencies. These components run within and alongside our Kubernetes-based platform and sit on the production deployment path relied upon by engineering teams across the company.
As BPaaS continues to scale, we are evolving and refining integration components to improve reliability, scalability, and operational maturity while delivering new capabilities across a growing platform roadmap.
If you are motivated by building and operating high-impact distributed systems within a production Kubernetes environment, this role offers meaningful responsibility and technical depth.
We'll Trust You To:
Design, build, and operate integration services running on and interacting with a large-scale Kubernetes platform
Share ownership of production reliability for integration components, including participation in an on-call rotation
Diagnose and resolve cross-system issues spanning multiple services, infrastructure dependencies, and Kubernetes environments
Improve resilience, observability, and failure isolation across integration workflows
Contribute to architectural decisions shaping how BPaaS integrates with other infrastructure domains
Help evolve existing components to address scaling needs, Kubernetes operational complexity, and long-term maintainability
Deliver new integration capabilities from an expanding platform roadmap
Collaborate closely with sister teams extending Kubernetes APIs and shared control-plane components
You'll Need To Have:
Strong experience building and operating services in Kubernetes-based production environments
Solid understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals (workloads, networking, RBAC, configuration management, and operational troubleshooting)
Experience building and operating distributed systems in production
Experience participating in on-call rotations and contributing to incident resolution
Strong debugging skills across service boundaries and Kubernetes-based environments
Experience designing reliable integration patterns between independent systems (e.g., API-driven or event-driven architectures)
Solid understanding of reliability principles, including observability, scalability, and fault isolation
Experience developing services in a strongly typed language
A degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
We’d Love to See:
Experience working on internal developer platforms or infrastructure systems
Experience operating or contributing to multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms
Experience with Go and/or JavaScript/TypeScript
Familiarity with authentication systems, certificate management, or secure service-to-service communication
The referenced salary range is based on the Company's good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.
We offer one of the most comprehensive and generous benefits plans available and offer a range of total rewards that may include merit increases, incentive compensation (exempt roles only), paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, life insurance, and various wellness programs, among others. The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.
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