Senior Platform Engineer (Java + GCP)

Overview

Anaqua is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer for its platform team, to build the shared microservices and Spring Boot libraries that every product team relies on. This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role focused on Java and infrastructure, not a lead or management position.

What you'll do

• Build shared Spring Boot services and libraries, including auth, async tasks, replication and observability defaults, that every product team builds on top of.
• Help shape the company-wide playbook for how services get deployed, secured, monitored and rolled back.
• Work on multi-region GCP infrastructure, including GKE, global load balancing, autoscaling, and zero-downtime deploys with Helm and GitLab CI.
• Contribute to edge and application security, including gateway policies, API key and JWT issuance, dependency hygiene, and GCP IAM least-privilege.
• Take part in architectural decisions on event sourcing, Pub/Sub topology, schema design and service boundaries, documenting them for the wider team.
• Use AI tooling as a daily collaborator, designing platform contracts that both humans and AI agents can work against.
• Write design docs, RFCs and runbooks, raising the engineering bar through knowledge-sharing.
• Participate in design reviews and platform RFCs, connecting platform work back to product impact.

What you'll need

• Deep production Java with Spring Boot, including transactional boundaries, connection pools, JVM behaviour under load, and how things break in production.
• Hands-on experience building shared platform libraries or Spring Boot starters consumed by other teams.
• Strong infrastructure and DevOps experience on a major public cloud (GCP preferred), including Kubernetes in production (GKE), Helm, multi-region deploys, autoscaling and rollbacks.
• Terraform as a daily tool.
• PostgreSQL depth, including schema design, indexing, query plans and migrations under load.
• Event sourcing and asynchronous messaging experience, with contract-first API design using OpenAPI.
• Production observability and incident response on GCP, backed by strong testing discipline across unit and integration tests.
• Excellent written and spoken English, with strong customer and business empathy.

Nice to have

• GCP certification.
• gRPC/Envoy experience.
• Internal developer platform experience.
• React/Next.js knowledge.
• A background in IP/legal-tech or regulated B2B SaaS.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India.