Platform Engineer

We are Cargill, a family company with more than 160 years of experience delivering food and agricultural solutions that help nourish the world safely, responsibly, and sustainably. Our 155,000 team members work across the supply chain to source, make, and deliver products that support people, businesses, and communities. In this Platform Engineer role, we are building the foundation for our modern business applications by applying cloud and infrastructure engineering practices to secure and maintain the core capabilities used by our teams. This is a hybrid onsite position based at our Midtown Atlanta Technology Hub, and we are an equal opportunity employer, including Disability/Vet.

- We require at least 2 years of relevant professional experience, with 3 or more years preferred.
- We need experience building and operating cloud-agnostic or hybrid infrastructure platforms, including compute, networking, storage, and identity services.
- We require strong hands-on expertise with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi to provision and manage scalable environments.
- We need proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language, such as Go, Python, or Bash, for automation and platform development.
- We prefer experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation frameworks that enable self-service for application teams.
- We prefer familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, along with platform patterns for modern application delivery.
- We prefer experience building and operating APIs that simplify infrastructure, enforce standards, and support developer-friendly automation and governance.
- We prefer exposure to hyperscaler technologies such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- We value knowledge of platform engineering concepts, including internal developer platforms, self-service capabilities, and developer experience optimization.
- We prefer experience implementing security, compliance, and governance controls within platform tooling, including identity, secrets management, and policy enforcement.
- We value familiarity with observability practices such as logging, monitoring, and alerting, including tools like Elastic or DataDog.
- We need the ability to collaborate across teams to define standards and improve software delivery, operational maturity, and platform adoption.
- We do not sponsor work visas for this position.
- We require onsite hybrid presence at our Midtown Atlanta Technology Hub.

- We partner with teams to design and build high-quality software solutions using clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
- We apply our internal software deployment platform, CI/CD pipelines, and twelve-factor development practices to automate deployments and support reliable releases.
- We work with product managers, designers, and engineers to gather moderately complex requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs.
- We write, maintain, and troubleshoot moderately complex unit and integration tests, using test-driven development when appropriate.
- We identify opportunities to improve development and deployment workflows, then implement approved standards that strengthen efficiency and reliability.
- We create and maintain detailed documentation for applications, deployment procedures, and system configurations.
- We provide technical support and investigate moderately complex production issues to reduce downtime and speed up resolution.
- We help build the foundation for our modern business applications by strengthening core platform capabilities used by data and application teams.