The Senior Platform Engineer will design and build shared services essential for various product and data squads at Bain & Company. This role is part of the PEG Innovation team, which focuses on creating analytical solutions for private equity clients. The engineer will work with technologies such as Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes, ensuring services are secure and operational. The position emphasizes collaboration, mentorship, and maintaining high engineering standards.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 6+ years of experience building and operating backend services, APIs, or platform components in production environments.
• Demonstrated experience owning production backend services end-to-end, including on-call operational responsibility.
• Production experience building and operating REST and event-driven microservices at scale in a Kubernetes environment.
• Experience designing and operating data stores in Postgres, including schema migration practices.

• Design, build, test, deploy, and operate core platform services to production quality standards.
• Own service APIs and contracts end-to-end, managing versioning and backwards compatibility.
• Implement and enforce authentication and authorization patterns in production environments.
• Build and operate event-driven capabilities using Kafka domain events.
• Mentor mid-level and junior platform engineers through pairing and design guidance.

• Employees at Bain are often offered comprehensive health coverage for employees and families, including mental, emotional, and behavioral health resources, with access to counseling, coaching, fitness, and fertility support (varies by location), plus strong financial protection (life, accident, disability; some offices add critical illness), tax-efficient programs, retirement savings, and extras like travel insurance, transportation, and mobile phones. Flexible time off and accommodations include paid holidays, vacation, personal/sick time, part-time/reskilling options, multiple leave paths, and (U.S.) 21 weeks of family leave for all parents; a mentorship-driven culture provides lifecycle career support, training, tuition assistance, and connection to a 19k-member alumni network.