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Truist · 3 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer – Platform & Microservices Architecture

Charlotte, NC

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

6+ years exp

Truist is seeking a seasoned and hands-on Senior Software Engineer to lead the design and implementation of enterprise-grade microservices and platform capabilities that operate at global scale. The role involves building resilient software systems while ensuring compliance with security and risk management standards, and requires strong technical leadership to deliver scalable code. Responsibilities include designing and developing microservices, implementing event-driven architectures, and collaborating with security and compliance teams.

BankingFinanceFinancial Services

No H1B

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain high-scale, low-latency microservices in Java and Python that support enterprise platforms with stringent uptime, compliance, and observability requirements

Engineer event-driven architectures using Kafka or equivalent messaging platforms to enable asynchronous workflows, decoupled service communication, and scalable event sourcing

Develop and maintain Helm charts, Kubernetes manifests, and YAML-based configurations to deploy and manage cloud-native applications in production environments

Design and implement enterprise-scale reusable service patterns, including service discovery, distributed configuration, fault tolerance, and global failover strategies

Embed policy-as-code in CI/CD workflows using tools like OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno, or custom controls, enforcing security, compliance, and infrastructure governance at deploy time

Partner with security, compliance, and risk teams to codify controls into automated pipelines, ensuring software systems are audit-ready by default

Implement compliance-aware telemetry and alerting tied to controls such as data residency, encryption, access boundaries, and runtime immutability

Drive the adoption of platform-wide architectural standards for service-to-service communication, identity propagation, rate-limiting, and secret injection

Provide hands-on leadership in technical design reviews, deep dive troubleshooting, and performance tuning of distributed, containerized systems

Author and maintain technical documentation, platform onboarding guides, and reusable code templates to enable faster and safer developer onboarding

Develop customized coding, software integration, perform analysis, configure solutions, using tools specific to the project or the area

Lead and participate in the development, testing, implementation, maintenance, and support of highly complex solutions in adherence to company standards, including robust unit testing and support for subsequent release testing

Build non-functional monitoring capabilities and provide escalated support for highly complex applications in production

Build in and maintain security controls and monitoring in support of company standards

Typically lead moderately complex projects and participate in larger, more complex initiatives

Solve complex technical and operational problems. Act as a resource for teammates with less experience

May oversee the work of a small team

In an Agile environment: Responsible for delivering high quality working software and automating manual/reusable tasks working directly, and engage with, the business from the beginning of the design work. Leverage continuous engineering practices to deliver business value regarding effectiveness of the design. Actively participate in refining user stories. Responsible for design, developing, and maintaining automated unit testing, and supporting integration and functional testing. Responsible for providing automated monitoring capabilities, providing warranty support, and providing knowledge transfer to production support. Develop code in accordance with the acceptance criteria established by the Product Owner

Qualification

JavaPythonKubernetesHelmEvent-driven architectureOpen Policy AgentCI/CD pipelinesGitOpsInfrastructure as CodeSoft skills

Required

Bachelor's Degree and six to ten years of experience or equivalent education and software engineering training or experience

In-depth knowledge in information systems and ability to identify, apply, and implement best practices

Understanding of key business processes and competitive strategies related to the IT function

Ability to plan and manage projects and solve complex problems by applying best practices

Ability to provide direction and mentor less experienced teammates

Ability to interpret and convey complex, difficult, or sensitive information

Preferred

Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline

Experience in high-regulation industries (e.g., financial services, healthcare, automotive) with firsthand knowledge of compliance enforcement at code level

Experience with Open Policy Agent (OPA), Kyverno, or HashiCorp Sentinel for governance and control enforcement

Deep familiarity with enterprise system constraints including governance, scalability, compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, PCI, NIST), and regulated workloads

Familiarity with zero-trust security patterns, mutual TLS (mTLS), service mesh (e.g., Istio or Linkerd), and container vulnerability scanning tools

6+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong track record of enterprise-scale service delivery in production environments

Expert-level proficiency in Java and Python, with demonstrable experience building services deployed on Kubernetes using Helm and declarative configurations

Experience with event-driven patterns, including pub/sub, message queues, and streaming architectures

Contributions to internal frameworks or open-source tools that enable secure, scalable microservice development

Advanced understanding of platform resiliency, chaos engineering, and graceful degradation strategies under fault scenarios

Strong leadership presence in technical forums and the ability to drive architectural alignment across multiple teams

Strong understanding of platform architecture principles, multi-region deployments, and high-availability (HA) designs

Experience implementing policy-as-code in CI/CD pipelines and enforcing guardrails and operational risk controls via automated code and deployment policies

Proficient with GitOps, CI/CD pipelines (e.g., ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions), and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Kustomize, etc.)

Working knowledge of container runtime security, runtime controls (e.g., SELinux, seccomp, AppArmor), and least privilege access models

Familiarity with SRE principles, including SLO/SLA/SI metrics and production incident response practices