Software Engineer II, Platform at Crane… · Houston

Essential Job Functions

• Own the day-to-day design, delivery, and operation of the platforms above, balancing delivery speed against long-term maintainability and reliability.
• Define and evolve the "paved path" for other engineering teams: reusable Terraform modules, Dev Container templates, CI/CD workflows, and golden-path patterns that reduce toil and enforce good defaults.
• Set and uphold engineering standards for testing, reliability, security, observability, secrets handling, and feature-flag hygiene across the organization.
• Build and improve observability in Grafana and incident workflows in Incident.io so issues are caught early and resolved with durable fixes.
• Curate and grow the internal AI skill marketplace – setting quality and safety standards, reviewing submissions, and helping teams find and build the right skills for their work.
• Mentor Engineer I and II teammates and provide high-signal code and design reviews, with particular attention to platform and cross-team impact.
• Partner with product and design to shape scope, surface risks, and plan realistic roadmaps.
• Lead incident response for platform-level and cross-service issues, and drive durable fixes and prevention rather than one-off patches.
• Champion developer experience – reducing friction, onboarding time, build/deploy times, and cognitive load for engineers building on the platform.

Physical Requirements

• Job may require extended sitting or standing, use of standard office equipment.
• Job requires the ability to use vision, adjust focus and work on a standard computer screen.
• Use of audio-visual equipment is required.
• Job may require punctual attendance and regular presence on-site at the assigned work location.

Education & Experience

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent on platform, infrastructure, or systems-level engineering.

Other Skills and Abilities

Deep backend expertise and full-stack fluency; mastery of C#/F# on .NET Core, minimal APIs, background hosted services, and serverless (AWS Lambda, Azure Functions). Hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code, including designing reusable modules/templates for other teams to consume; strong GitHub fluency including repo/branch governance and GitHub Actions CI/CD. Strong command of relational data (SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL) and event-driven messaging (Kafka, Azure Service Bus). Practical experience with secrets management (Doppler or equivalent), feature flagging/progressive delivery (LaunchDarkly or equivalent), Dev Containers or comparable local environment tooling, and dashboards/alerting in Grafana or comparable tools. Proven ability to design and operate systems other engineers build on, and to align a team behind technical decisions; familiarity with incident management tooling and process (Incident.io or equivalent) and interest or hands-on experience with internal AI tooling ecosystems, such as building, curating, or governing a marketplace of reusable AI skills/agents.

• Designs reliable systems others build on and raises the engineering bar for the team.
• Thinks Analytically: weighs the costs, benefits, risks and chances for success when making a decision.
• Is Proactive: takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm.
• Focuses on Performance: holds self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Collaborates: builds partnerships internally and externally to meet shared objectives.
• Influences: gains support for ideas and proposals through clear, audience-aware communication.

CERTIFICATIONS AND LICENSES

• Professional certification may be required in some cases

WHY SHOULD YOU WORK FOR CRANE?

At Crane, we believe in providing our employees with excellent benefits at a Great Place to Work.

We offer:

• Quarterly Incentive Plan
• 136 hours of Paid Time Off which equals 17 days for the year, that can be used for Sick Time or for Personal Use
• Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision benefits
• Tuition Reimbursement for education related to your job
• Employee Referral Bonuses
• Employee Recognition and Rewards Program
• Paid Volunteer Time to support a cause that is close to your heart and contributes to our communities
• Employee Discounts
• Wellness Incentives that can go up to $100 per year for completing challenges, in addition to a discount on contribution rates

Come join the leader in logistics and take your career in the right direction.

Disclaimer:

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

This position requires the final candidate to successfully pass an E-Verify Check.

More Information: http://www.dhs.gov/e-verify

Company benefits are contingent upon meeting eligibility requirements and plan conditions.