Platform Engineer

Ebates Performance Marketing, Inc. (Rakuten International) is hiring a Platform Engineer to help engineering squads adopt AI agent tools and build software more effectively. The role combines embedded support for AI-powered development workflows with platform engineering work across infrastructure, CI/CD, testing, and developer tooling.

Responsibilities:

• Acts as the embedded, forward-deployed engineer for AI tooling: finds slow or manual points in a squad's dev lifecycle, closes them with AI-powered solutions, and champions AI coding assistants and agents across the org
• Designs and integrates agentic and multi-agent AI systems (LangChain, Agent SDK, MCP) and external AI services (Anthropic, OpenAI, and others) into internal tools and squad workflows
• Strengthens quality through unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, using AI to generate and maintain coverage faster and resolve issues quickly
• Builds back-end services, APIs, and lightweight front-end components across the team's stack (Java, Python, Golang, React), ensuring proper integration within existing infrastructure
• Designs and manages data schemas and databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Kafka) for efficient storage and retrieval
• Builds and improves CI/CD pipelines, deployment tooling, and internal developer platform capabilities (templates, self-service infra) that squads depend on
• Acquires foundational knowledge of system engineering principles and practices relevant to assigned projects
• Analyzes basic system requirements and participates in the preparation of technical specifications
• Applies learned concepts to assist in system design and implementation for limited-scope projects
• Communicates progress and findings to team members and stakeholders during project reviews
• Coordinates with cross-functional teams to align tasks with project timelines and deliverables
• Develops basic documentation to support system architecture and implementation processes
• Escalates technical challenges or unresolved issues to senior engineers for guidance and resolution