Design and maintain digital technology infrastructure, develop software solutions, automate deployment, collaborate with teams, and provide technical support.
Cargill's size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way. We are a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials - from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Senior Platform Engineer job designs, develops and maintains digital technology infrastructure to support information technology applications and services. With minimal supervision, this job collaborates with cross functional teams to define, design and implement new features to meet user needs and business goals, and upgrade existing platforms to improve performance and functionality through writing clean, efficient and scalable code and troubleshooting and debugging complex issues. This job also participates in code reviews to maintain high code quality and share knowledge with platform engineering team members.
Essential Functions
Qualifications
Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
This role's internal title is Senior Platform Engineer. This is a hybrid role located in our Atlanta, Georgia office.
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Job Purpose and Impact
The Senior Platform Engineer job designs, develops and maintains digital technology infrastructure to support information technology applications and services. With minimal supervision, this job collaborates with cross functional teams to define, design and implement new features to meet user needs and business goals, and upgrade existing platforms to improve performance and functionality through writing clean, efficient and scalable code and troubleshooting and debugging complex issues. This job also participates in code reviews to maintain high code quality and share knowledge with platform engineering team members.
Essential Functions
- SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: Designs and develops high quality software solutions by writing clean, maintainable and efficient codes.
- AUTOMATION: Leads the application of internal software deployment platform, continuous integration or continuous delivery pipeline and twelve factor development methodology to automate the deployment process, ensuring smooth and reliable releases.
- COLLABORATION: Partners with cross functional team of product managers, designers and other engineers to gather complex requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs.
- TESTING & DEBUGGING: Writes and maintains complex unit tests and integration tests, and performs debugging to maintain the quality and performance of the software, applying test driven development as needed.
- CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Recommends options for improving the software development and deployment processes, and implements the approved standards to improve efficiency and reliability.
- DOCUMENTATION: Creates and maintains comprehensive documentation for complex software applications, deployment processes and system configurations.
- TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Provides technical support and troubleshooting for complex issues with deployed applications to ensure minimal downtime and fast resolution.
Qualifications
Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Proven experience in B2B platform engineering, including EDI mapping standards such as X12 and EDIFACT.
- Familiarity with integration platforms like Boomi EDI, Tibco, SAP BTP, and SAP PI/PO.
- Strong foundation in core engineering principles, with the ability to apply them to solution design, scalability, and performance optimization in B2B environments.
- Proficiency with modern engineering toolsets (e.g., GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, cloud scripting, backlog management) to support agile delivery and operational transparency.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with product teams across diverse B2B domains, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and platform strategy.
This role's internal title is Senior Platform Engineer. This is a hybrid role located in our Atlanta, Georgia office.
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Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.
Top Skills
Boomi Edi
Ci/Cd Pipelines
Cloud Scripting
Edi Mapping Standards
Edifact
Git
Sap Btp
Sap Pi/Po
Tibco
X12
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