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Platform Engineer

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Job ID 324081 Date posted 04/22/2026 Location : Atlanta, Georgia Category  DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND DATA (DT&D) Job Status  Salaried Full Time

Cargill is committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. Sitting at the heart of the supply chain, we partner with farmers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. 
Our 155,000 team members innovate with purpose, providing customers with life’s essentials so businesses can grow, communities prosper, and consumers live well. With over 160 years of experience as a family company, we look ahead while remaining true to our values. We put people first. We reach higher. We do the right thing—today and for generations to come.

Job Summary

The Professional, Platform Engineering job maintains and partners to design and develop digital technology infrastructure to support information technology applications and services. With limited supervision, this job collaborates with cross functional teams to implement new software features to meet user needs and business goals and upgrade existing platforms to improve performance and functionality through writing clean, efficient and scalable code and troubleshooting and debugging moderately complex issues. This job also participates in code reviews to maintain high code quality and share knowledge with platform engineering team members.

Essential Functions

  • SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: Partners to design and develop high quality software solutions by writing clean, maintainable and efficient codes including Terraform,SQL and Python.
  • AUTOMATION: Applies internal software deployment platform, continuous integration or continuous delivery pipeline and twelve factor development methodology to automate the deployment process, ensuring smooth and reliable releases.
  • COLLABORATION: Partners with cross functional team of product managers, designers and other engineers to gather moderately complex requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs.
  • TESTING & DEBUGGING: Writes and maintains moderately complex unit tests and integration tests, and performs debugging to maintain the quality and performance of the software, applying test driven development as needed.
  • CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Identifies and suggests options for improving the software development and deployment processes, and implements the approved standards to improve efficiency and reliability.
  • DOCUMENTATION: Drafts and maintains comprehensive documentation for moderately complex software applications, deployment processes and system configurations.
  • TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Provides technical support and troubleshooting for moderately complex issues with deployed applications to ensure minimal downtime and fast resolution.

Qualifications

Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Quick learner and flexible to move across technology stacks to meet varying business needs of Digital Technology &Dataorganization.
  • Professional experience with AWS Cloud, AWS Lakehouse
  • Professional experience with IAM, RBAC, TBAC, Pub Sub experience.
  • Platform Security, Security Framework (Ex.NIST), Security Platform (Wiz) exposure in previous role.
  • Exposure and/or experience working in a Product Mindset within a Data Platform team.

The business will not sponsor work visas for this role. It is located in our Atlanta, GA office. Relocation will not be provided.

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