Senior Digital Platform Engineer

Caterpillar

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Work type
On-site
Location
Broomfield, COChicago, ILPeoria, ILIrving, TXDenver, CODallas, TX
Salary
$112,710–$183,140 / yr
Posted
3 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Nov 11, 2026

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Below market

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This role pays less than 85% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$213,200 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $148k versus about $182k for comparable roles.

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About Caterpillar

Caterpillar Inc. is the world''s largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives. Industry: Heavy Equipment & Manufacturing

Caterpillar currently has 111 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $128,470–$192,710 across 106 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Digital Platform Engineer

The Senior Digital Platform Engineer joins the Digital Marketing Enablement – Platform Engineering team within Cat Digital to build, operate, and improve enterprise digital experience platform capabilities. This role involves designing, developing, and supporting scalable solutions across Adobe Edge Delivery Services, Vercel, Uniform, AEM Assets, Cloud Manager, CI/CD pipelines, and CDN technologies. The engineer will improve platform reliability, security, and performance while leading incident resolution and root cause analysis for business-critical applications. Key technical requirements include experience with Next.js, AWS, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and Web Components. The position focuses on modernization, automation, and software integration to support digital marketing infrastructure. The engineer must collaborate with architecture, security, and infrastructure teams to maintain high-quality software products and ensure seamless cloud deployment practices.

What you'll do

  • Design, develop, and support scalable digital experience platform capabilities across EDS, Vercel, Uniform, and AEM Assets.
  • Improve platform reliability, security, performance, and observability through automation and sound engineering practices.
  • Lead incident resolution, root cause analysis, and service restoration for business-critical digital applications.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver platform enhancements, cloud migrations, and modernization work.
  • Contribute to code quality, technical documentation, governance, and change management processes.
  • Maintain and optimize CI/CD pipelines and cloud deployment practices.
  • Support the integration of various software packages and interfaces with alternative platforms.

What we're looking for

  • Must be located in Chicago, IL, Peoria, IL, Denver, CO, or Dallas, TX.
  • Must be able to work onsite five days a week.
  • Extensive experience with software development tools, activities, and producing software products in line with requirements.
  • Extensive experience in software product design and converting market requirements into software product designs.
  • Working knowledge of software integration processes, functions, and maintaining interfaces to alternative platforms.
  • Working knowledge of technical aspects of software products, including design, configuration, and integration.
  • Working knowledge of decision-making processes and effective communication concepts.
  • Demonstrated software development and platform engineering experience in enterprise digital environments (preferred).
  • Strong hands-on experience with AEM, EDS, Vercel, Next.js, Uniform, Akamai, edge computing, or AWS (preferred).
  • Experience operating and supporting cloud-based digital experience platforms, including monitoring, automation, and incident response (preferred).
  • Working knowledge of modern web development using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and Web Components (preferred).
  • Relevant education or equivalent practical experience, with an advanced degree considered a plus (preferred).

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