Backend Software Engineer - Platforms

About DataCamp DataCamp's mission is to empower everyone with the data and AI skills essential for 21st-century success. By providing practical, engaging learning experiences, DataCamp equips learners and organizations of all sizes to harness the power of data and AI. As a trusted partner to over 17 million learners and 6,000+ companies, including 80% of the Fortune 1000 , DataCamp is leading the charge in addressing the critical data and AI skills shortage. About the role At DataCamp, we are on a mission to make Data and AI training available to everybody. As a Dev Platform Backend Engineer , within our Developer Platforms team, you'll serve as a deep-dive specialist at the intersection of backend platform initiatives, security, and next-generation AI agent infrastructure. You’ll contribute and shape the entire backend developer experience at DataCamp. This means developing agent-invocable service templates and golden paths, evolving infrastructure abstractions, and establishing robust observability standards, authentication patterns, and CI/CD guardrails, ensuring product teams can build, maintain, and release secure software with speed and autonomy. You are a deep-dive specialist who loves the craft of building scalable and secure services but understands that great features are only possible if the underlying platform is reliable and easy to use. About you At DataCamp, we seek individuals who embody our core values of data-driven decision-making, action, transparency, ownership, and customer focus. You thrive in a fast-paced, high-performing environment and are driven by a passion for making a meaningful impact. You're adaptable, embracing change and ambiguity with enthusiasm. Your pro-activeness and entrepreneurial spirit push you beyond just meeting targets, you aim to understand the "why" behind our goals and take ownership to drive the business forward. You’re a collaborative team player who values transparency and always seeks to improve and innovate. If this sounds like you, we encourage you to apply! Responsibilities As an engineer in the Developer Platforms team your main responsibility is to “Pave the Path” for product teams to maximize their developer experience (DX) and efficiency when building the DataCamp platform. This responsibility stretches across the full SDLC of both frontend and backend development. This is a non exhaustive list of responsibilities as part of this role: Developer Platforms Tooling: Design, build, and maintain internal tooling such as service boilerplates, shared config modules, and reusable packages that standardize how engineers scaffold, code, build and test applications at DataCamp. Self-Service Workflows: Design and implement standardized systems that enable engineers to easily set up new serverless, backend or frontend services and provision third-party tools. CI Build Infrastructure: Contribute to improving our continuous integration workflows and build infrastructure (e.g. Build scripts, CircleCI pipelines orbs, …) to ensure fast, reliable, and consistent CI and builds across services. Release Engineering: Define and streamline release practices for libraries, backend services and frontend applications (e.g. semantic versioning, changelogs, quality gates, publishing, …) contributing to a repeatable process that gives predictable results and scales well. Frontend Platform Support: Contribute to the frontend platform by improving our architecture, shared libraries, third-party tool integrations, and microfrontend platform. Testing Practices Tooling: Define and enable testing strategies with tooling across frontend and backend (end-to-end, integration, acceptance, visual regression testing and more). Ensure testability is built into boilerplates and tooling by default. Engineering Quality Standards: Help define and promote coding conventions, documentation conventions, and security/performance standards. Review contributions to platform tools and champion engi ... (truncated, view full listing at source)