Platform Engineer (Eastern Timezone Only) at CALERO – Rochester, New York

Overview

We’re looking for a bright and enthusiastic Platform Engineer to join one of our high-performing agile teams and help shape the foundations of our Calero cloud platform.

You will work across infrastructure, backend services, developer tooling, and automation, ensuring our systems are secure, scalable, observable, and easy for application teams to build on.

The successful candidate will get the opportunity to work on highly innovative, highly visible and business critical software that gets used every day within the world’s largest financial institutions and multi-national organizations.

What you’ll be doing

Designing, provisioning, and maintaining cloud environments in Microsoft Azure, including AKS, Virtual Machines, Azure SQL, Storage, Key Vault, and Front Door, etc.

Implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Terragrunt, and managing Kubernetes workloads through Helm and Azure DevOps.

Building platform tooling and libraries in C#/.NET, following software-engineering best-practices (SOLID, DRY and modern architectural patterns).

Supporting and evolving distributed micro-services using Autofac, EF/EF Core, Rebus, Topshelf, and modern CI/CD practices.

Enhancing observability using Open Search, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Prometheus, and Grafana.

Collaborating with engineers across backend and frontend teams to ensure reliability, performance, and smooth deployments.

Contributing to event-driven and message-based systems using Rebus, RabbitMQ, SignalR, and legacy MSMQ.

Maintaining platform security through Azure AD, OAuth/OIDC, JWT, and secure secrets management.

Working with modern AI technologies including Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, embedding models, RAG pipelines, and LibreChat to support intelligent platform capabilities.

What you’ll work with

Cloud & Infrastructure: Azure, AKS, Azure SQL Server, Azure Storage, Key Vault, Azure Monitor

IaC & Automation: Terraform, Terragrunt, Helm, PowerShell, Azure DevOps Pipelines

Backend Technologies: C#, .NET Framework/Core, Azure Functions, Autofac, EF/EF Core, Rebus, Topshelf

Containers & CI/CD: Docker, Kubernetes, Octopus Deploy, NuGet

Observability: Application Insights, Log Analytics, Prometheus, Grafana

Data & Search: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch

Messaging: RabbitMQ, SignalR, MSMQ

Testing & Quality: xUnit/NUnit/MSTest, SonarCloud

What we’re looking for

You’re someone who enjoys automation, understands how distributed systems behave, and is comfortable owning platform reliability. You work well across teams, embrace modern DevOps practices, and are driven by improving stability, developer experience, and delivery speed.

If you enjoy solving deep engineering challenges across cloud, infrastructure, and backend services, we would love to hear from you.

Calero is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, protected veteran status, or status as a qualified individual with a disability. 

 

The salary range for this position is $87,000-$100,000. It is important to Calero that potential candidates for this position understand that compensation depends on numerous factors including the geographic location where the role will be performed, skills required, experience, complexity, travel, and market rate. Calero aims to reward performance and attract top talent with competitive, fair pay and benefits. Please note that the top of the salary range represents exceptional, and/or senior-level positions, that meets all required qualifications. Actual offers take candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience into account. Base Pay is just one component of the total compensation package for employees. Other rewards vary by position and location.