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 recent Anaqua / RightHub stack on GCP. Hands-on Java. Hands-on infra. Senior individual contributor — not a lead or manager role.
You'll 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 — mod