Senior Software Engineer- Platform Services

Caterpillar is seeking a highly skilled Platform & Services Senior Software Engineer to design and deliver data-as-a-service capabilities for our Digital Manufacturing & Supply Chain Platform. This role focuses on building secure, scalable, and high-performance service layers that expose curated data from enterprise systems and IoT sources to downstream consumers, including applications, analytics, and simulation platforms.

• Design and implement service-oriented architectures to expose data from data platforms as APIs and reusable services.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering teams to understand data models, pipelines, and governance requirements.
• Develop REST/gRPC APIs, GraphQL endpoints, and event-driven services for real-time and batch data consumption.
• Ensure data security, compliance, and role-based access control across all exposed services.
• Optimize service performance for low-latency use cases such as dynamic scheduling and predictive maintenance.
• Implement API lifecycle management, including versioning, monitoring, and documentation.
• Drive adoption of CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and observability tools for service deployments.
• Mentor engineers on best practices for API design, microservices architecture, and DevOps automation.
• Collaborate with architects and product teams to align service design with platform strategy and business goals.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 12–15 years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5 years in platform or integration-focused roles.
• Proven expertise in API development (REST/gRPC, GraphQL) and microservices architecture.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure) and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong knowledge of data integration patterns, messaging systems (Kafka/Event Hubs), and orchestration frameworks.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, or Node.js.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code for service deployments.