Senior Platform Engineer – API Gateway & Cloud Growth in Columbus
Career & Market Insight
Career Level & Market Context: This is a Senior Platform Engineer role with a strong emphasis on API gateway architecture — a niche but high-demand skill set. Platform engineering is one of the fastest-growing disciplines in cloud-native engineering, and expertise in Kong, Envoy, or APISIX commands a premium in the market. In EMEA, senior platform engineers typically earn €70,000–€110,000 annually; in LATAM, equivalent roles range from $40,000–$65,000 USD. Zartis has not disclosed salary, which is worth raising early.
Skills You Will Build:
- End-to-end API gateway design across AWS, Azure, and GCP — a rare multi-cloud credential
- Internal Developer Platform (IDP) construction, highly valued in platform and DevOps engineering careers
- Cross-functional leadership and stakeholder communication in distributed teams
Culture Signals: The 360° feedback program, dedicated training time, and mentoring program suggest a structured, growth-oriented consultancy rather than a pure "delivery shop." Working in the fashion industry adds a diverse domain to your portfolio alongside Zartis's existing financial services and healthcare clients.
Green Flags: Ownership culture (end-to-end accountability), exploratory problem-solving, and multi-cloud exposure are career accelerators. Watch for: Consulting roles can mean context-switching between projects — confirm the expected duration of this engagement and career path options beyond the current client.
The Company and Our Mission
Zartis is a global AI transformation and technology consulting partner where talented engineers and technologists work on cutting-edge innovation. We partner with ambitious organizations to design, build, and scale technology solutions that deliver real impact.
Our teams bring deep expertise in AI-driven platforms, secure API architectures, and cloud-native engineering. You will work on meaningful projects that accelerate the adoption of advanced technologies — from strategy and discovery through to full product delivery — helping turn complex challenges into measurable outcomes.
With engineering hubs across EMEA and LATAM, and long-term partnerships in financial services, healthcare and life sciences, and energy and climate, we offer opportunities to work on projects that truly matter. Here, you will not just build technology — you will drive business impact and grow your career alongside industry leaders.
We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to work on a project in the fashion industry.
The Project
You will be part of a distributed team developing new technologies to solve real business problems, building and operating shared platform capabilities for application development teams. We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on trust and innovation.
We are looking for someone with good communication skills, ideally with experience making decisions, being proactive, used to building software from scratch, and with good attention to detail.
What You Will Do
- Lead the evaluation and implementation of an API gateway solution for the platform
- Consolidate existing pipelines and create a blueprint covering security standards and best practices
- Apply and transfer API gateway knowledge across cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Contribute to building and operating shared platform capabilities for application development teams
What You Will Bring
- Broad technical background across application development, cloud infrastructure, networking, security, and platform engineering
- Previous experience building or contributing to an Internal Developer Platform, developer portal, or shared cloud platform
- Hands-on experience with API gateway technologies such as Kong, Apache APISIX, Envoy, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management, or similar
- Good understanding of API security, authentication and authorization, traffic management, rate limiting, resilience, service discovery, and observability
- Strong software engineering skills in Java or Kotlin
- Practical experience with cloud platforms, containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and observability
- Able to work exploratively with incomplete requirements and translate business or technical objectives into implementable solutions
- Experience evaluating technical options, creating prototypes, documenting trade-offs, and presenting recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Used to taking end-to-end ownership in agile, cross-functional teams without fully specified tickets
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills; very good English (German is a plus)
Nice to Have
- Hands-on coding experience in Java or Kotlin
- Familiarity with cloud functions or serverless services (e.g. AWS Lambda)
- German language skills
What We Offer
- 100% Remote Work
- WFH Allowance: Monthly payment as financial support for remote working
- Career Growth: An established career development program accessible to all employees, with 360° feedback to guide your career progression
- Training: Dedicated time during the week for tech training, including online courses (Pluralsight, Educative.io), English classes, books, conferences, and events
- Mentoring Program: Become a mentor, receive mentorship, or both
- Zartis Wellbeing Hub (Kara Connect): A platform providing sessions with mental health professionals, nutritionists, physiotherapists, fitness coaches, and related webinars
- Multicultural Working Environment: Tech events, webinars, parties, and online team-building games and contests
Frequently Asked Questions
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