Core Platform Engineer, Singpass

Location: Singapore

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

[What the role is]

GovTech is the lead agency driving Singapore's Smart Nation initiatives and public sector digital transformation. As the Centre of Excellence for Infocomm Technology and Smart Systems (ICT & SS), GovTech develops the Singapore Government's capabilities in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, Application Development, Smart City Technology, Digital Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity.

At GovTech, we offer you a purposeful career to make lives better where we empower our people to master their craft through robust learning and development opportunities all year round. Play a part in Singapore's vision to build a Smart Nation and embark on your meaningful journey to build tech for public good. Join us to advance our mission and shape your future with us today!

Learn more about GovTech at http://tech.gov.sg .

[What you will be working on]

Who we are:

Singpass is a division under GovTech. The Singpass team builds and maintains Singapore's digital identity system. This includes various personal authentication protocols, data sharing tools, and corporate identity systems through Corppass. The team's mission is to provide reliable digital identity infrastructure that streamlines transactions, enables businesses, and protects against fraud.

As a Core Platform Engineer, you will:

• Consult with the Singpass Leadership, Product and Security team on strategic priorities.

• Build cloud-agnostic, scalable platform solutions for aforementioned priorities.

• Develop shared service platforms while handling BAU and on-call pager duties.

• Help Singpass secure its infrastructure and accelerate developer velocity.

• Adhere to compliance guidelines.

• Handle operations with a strong SRE-SWE mindset.

Your day to day role will involve:

• Designing and implementing robust, scalable infrastructure solutions.

• Developing and maintaining multi-tenant shared service platforms with a focus on developer experience.

• Running platform BAU operations and participating in on-call rotations.

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to gather specifications and user feedback.

• Optimising manpower and infrastructure costs across teams.

• Unshackling product engineering developers to focus on full-stack development by providing a world-class platform.

[What we are looking for]

We are looking for candidates that meet the following criteria:

• At least senior-level experience in software or systems engineering.

• Still heavily involved in software development in the capacity of an Individual Contributor.

• Possess deep, specialist expertise in at least one of the following domains, complemented by a broad understanding of the others:

  • Platform Engineering: Proven experience building true multi-tenant platforms focused on developer experience (DevEx), billing, observability, and service lifecycle management. This is beyond traditional system administration.

  • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): A strong background in defining and managing SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, and automating operations for large-scale, mission-critical services.

  • Infrastructure Engineering: Expertise in designing and building low-level systems, including kernel-level programming (e.g., eBPF), advanced networking (packet filtering, custom network fabrics), and distributed consensus algorithms (e.g., Paxos/Raft).

• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain complex platform systems from the ground up.

• Ability to work with legacy and open-source code bases to fork, patch, and contribute fixes.

• Can effectively communicate complex technical concepts and collaborate across diverse teams.

• Methodical in change management and diligent in creating clear, comprehensive documentation.

• A strong desire to relentlessly optimise and improve infrastructure, processes, and system reliability.

• Willing to take on BAU operations and on-call duties to ensure service stability.

Technical skills we're looking for include:

• Infrastructure as Code: Proficiency with IaC tools, with a strong preference for OpenTofu and extensive experience in the Terraform ecosystem. Experience with Pulumi or Crossplane is also valued.

• Programming Languages: Deep expertise in Golang for systems and platform development. Proficiency in Python for scripting and automation.

• Container Orchestration: Expertise in Kubernetes and its ecosystem.

• Cloud Platforms: Hands-on experience with major cloud providers.

• Architecture: Experience with building cloud-native and cloud-agnostic implementation.

​Qualifications:

• Experience is valued over certifications.

• Candidates will be assessed on the breadth and depth of their implementation experience.

GovTech is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that values diverse voices and perspectives, as we believe that diversity is the foundation to innovation. 

Our employee benefits are based on a total rewards approach, offering a holistic and market-competitive suite of perks. These include leave benefits to meet your work-life needs and employee wellness programmes. 

  

We champion flexible work arrangements (subject to your job role) and trust that you will manage your own time to deliver your best, wherever you are, and whatever works best for you. 

Learn more about life inside GovTech at go.gov.sg/GovTechCareers.

Stay connected with us on social media at go.gov.sg/ConnectWithGovTech.