Job Description
Role Mission:
The Scaffolding Engineer will design, implement, and maintain reusable templates and automation pipelines stored in Bitbucket to accelerate service onboarding, standardize infrastructure and code patterns, and support the paved-road developer experience. This role ensures engineering teams can quickly spin up new services with integrated observability, security, and feature-flag capabilities while following enterprise best practices.
Accountabilities:
- Develop and maintain reusable code, infrastructure, and service scaffolds stored in Bitbucket for microservices and serverless workloads.
- Integrate scaffolds with the internal developer portal (Backstage) to enable automated service creation and onboarding workflows.
- Embed platform standards, security controls, observability, CI/CD pipelines as code and feature-flag integrations (GrowthBook) into all scaffolds.
- Collaborate with Platform Architect, Senior Platform Engineer, and application teams to refine scaffolding workflows and improve developer experience.
- Ensure scaffolds and automation are maintainable, version-controlled, and extensible for future platform enhancements.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain scaffolding templates including infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation), code boilerplate, configuration-as-code (CaC), and CI/CD pipelines as code stored and managed in Bitbucket repositories.
- Integrate scaffolds into Backstage templates to support self-service onboarding for engineering teams.
- Include default Splunk observability, logging, monitoring, security, compliance, CI/CD pipelines as code , and feature-flag (GrowthBook) integrations into all scaffolds.
- Review, maintain, and iterate scaffolds based on developer feedback and adoption metrics.
- Collaborate with security, compliance, and DevOps teams to enforce platform standards and ensure secure and compliant scaffolds.
- Maintain proper version control, branching strategies, and code review practices in Bitbucket to ensure quality and traceability.
