Staff Collaboration Platform Engineer

About the role

As a Staff Collaboration Platform Engineer, you will design, evolve and maintain the core collaboration systems that let thousands of employees connect, co-create and deliver results. You will also architect, innovate and influence the platform's direction, mentor engineers, drive proof-of-concepts, lead integrations and own strategic collaboration domains across the enterprise.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of enterprise collaboration platforms covering chat, conferencing, file sharing and email, driving technical roadmaps and domain-level responsibilities.
• Drive platform resilience, performance and reliability through advanced automation, proactive issue detection and remediation.
• Implement AI-powered solutions and integrate communication tools and core business workflows to streamline collaboration.
• Mentor and coach junior and mid-level engineers, giving technical reviews, architectural guidance and oversight.
• Evaluate and optimize collaboration systems, weighing custom versus off-the-shelf options, and drive performance tuning and tech debt reduction.

Required profile

• Degree or professional qualification in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience, with 4+ years in platform, systems or infrastructure roles.
• Deep expertise in at least one collaboration or communication domain (e.g. conferencing, chat/messaging, bots/integration frameworks).
• Proven leadership qualities, strong problem-solving skills and the ability to give technical guidance with system-level thinking.
• Nice to have: experience integrating AI/automation agents or building real-time collaboration stacks; performance engineering or high-throughput systems work; COTS or open-source experience; regulated or high-security environment experience.

Required skills

• Proficiency in programming or scripting languages such as Python or PowerShell.
• Automation, Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform), CI/CD pipelines and system observability/monitoring.
• Scalable architectures, containerization and identity/access management (SSO, RBAC).

What we offer

• Autonomy to experiment with new frameworks, AI and next-generation collaboration tools.
• Path toward Principal Engineer, Domain Lead or Architect roles.
• Training, certification support and access to conferences.
• Cross-functional exposure (cybersecurity, UX, cloud infrastructure).

The employer is an agency under the Ministry of Defence (Singapore); only Singapore citizens will be considered. The company may use AI tools to support parts of the hiring process.