Staff Backend Engineer - Platform Engineering

Job Description Summary

GE Vernova's Electrification Software's largest Grid Software Global Delivery Center is based in Bucharest. It allows us to bring a significant contribution to the Worldwide Electrical Energy context. We deliver mission-critical solutions that drive the energy transition, focusing on Energy Transmission, Distribution, Asset Management, and Market Management to shape the current and future energy environment.

What You Would Work On:
Our teams support software solutions for R&D, services, and support for Electrification Software's products while liaising with stakeholders and customers all around the globe.
At GE Vernova's Electrification Software business, you will join a high-performing team delivering global projects that support decarbonization and drive the energy transition. You'll receive guidance from colleagues and leaders as you develop your skills and understanding of the business.

As a Staff Software Engineer in our Platform Engineering team, you'll contribute to a suite of backend services and developer-facing tools that support everything from CI/CD orchestration and artifact promotion to developer experience APIs and delivery metrics. This platform integrates with key systems such as GitHub, Backstage, Artifactory, and Kubernetes, and underpins our standardized CI/CD blueprint.

This is an opportunity to influence the shape of internal platform capabilities that enable thousands of developers to ship secure, reliable software with confidence.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable backend services and APIs (primarily in Python and/or Go) that power the development platform
• Build event-driven integrations and workflows across systems such as GitHub, Artifactory, Kubernetes, and internal tooling
• Contribute to features such as artifact promotion APIs, SDLC metrics pipelines, and CI/CD standardization tooling
• Collaborate with infrastructure and DevOps teams to ensure smooth integration with GitHub Actions, Helm, ArgoCD, and cloud-native platforms
• Help integrate the development platform with Backstage, supporting unified service metadata, software catalog integration, and lifecycle automation
• Develop automation and tooling that enhances developer productivity and observability across the SDLC
• Write technical documentation, contribute to internal standards, and participate in design and architecture reviews
• Work closely with platform users, product teams, and engineering leadership to gather feedback and iterate on platform capabilities

• Deep experience in backend engineering with Python and/or Go
• Strong knowledge of software design principles, architecture patterns, and secure development practices
• Hands-on experience building and consuming RESTful APIs
• Experience with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle
• Familiarity with cloud-native technologies, including:
  
  
  • Kubernetes
  • Helm
  • Istio service mesh
  • ArgoCD or similar GitOps tools
• Experience working with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
• Understanding of software lifecycle management, including artifact promotion, dependency management, and release traceability
• Desirable: familiarity with AWS services (EC2, EKS, RDS, Lambda etc.)
• Desirable: experience with Backstage, software catalogs, or internal developer portals (IDPs)
• Desirable: exposure to metrics, dashboards, or observability tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus, or PowerBI

• Strong problem solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments
• Experience in building scalable and highly available distributed systems
• Expert in breaking down problems and estimate time for development tasks
• Evangelizes how our technology solves customer problems from a technology and business perspective

• Demonstrates clarity of thinking to work through limited information and vague problem definitions
• Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas
• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team
• Shares knowledge, power, and credit, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill

• Able to work under minimal supervision
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity
• Able to work well with global teams, including time-zone flexibility
• Skilled in providing oversight and mentoring team members. Shows ability to effectively delegate work

• Want to shape platform architecture and how engineering teams deliver software
• Think holistically about developer experience, delivery workflows, and system integration
• Enjoy solving cross-cutting problems and collaborating across engineering functions
• Are passionate about driving technical excellence and engineering culture

• Strong induction process (a dedicated 1-month ramp-up period).
• Flexible working hours and a well-defined hybrid working policy.
• Private Medical Insurance for you (can also be extended for family members).
• Attractive financial compensations for roles involving external travels and on-site missions.
• Fully customized development and training programs all throughout the year.
• Increased number of vacation days, according to your work-experience, encompassed by an annual bonus payout.
• Annual, performance-based, salary review.
• Multiple subscriptions, discounts and vouchers available (such as Bookster subscription, corporate discount to fitness services, gift vouchers for Christmas and Easter holiday, daily meal vouchers, additional days off such as 8th of March and 3rd Easter Day and children's benefits, including gifts for special occasions, vouchers, and events) etc.