Merck KGaA Posted September 6, 2026

Senior Platform Engineer/资深平台工程师

Shanghai, Shanghai, China FULL_TIME
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About this opportunity

Work Your Magic with us!

Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.

About the role: You will turn architecture into working production paths: implement integrations, automate quality and operations, harden day-2 operability, and help grow internal engineering capacity. You will be a key technical counterpart to architects, security, and external partners throughout design, delivery, and run.

Your role: 

• Design, implement, and maintain platform foundations (integration layers, identity hooks, environments, automation)

• Improve reliability through CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, alerting, and operational runbooks

• Build reusable engineering assets (templates, test harnesses, smoke/E2E checks, quality gates) that reduce manual effort and create repeatable evidence of readiness

• Partner with architects and vendors to harden production paths, clarify acceptance standards, and improve day-2 operability

• Troubleshoot complex cross-component issues spanning applications, APIs, data services, and cloud infrastructure

• Contribute to secure-by-default engineering practices (secrets management, access control, auditability).

• Support environment readiness and production handover for platforms delivered with external partners.

• Coach junior engineers/interns and help grow internal engineering capacity.

Who you are:

• Solid experience (typically 6+ years) in platform, backend, and cloud engineering

• Hands-on experience with China cloud providers is required

• Practical skills with cloud services, APIs, automation, and observability tooling

• Experience with identity/access integration and secure service-to-service communication

• A production mindset: quality gates, incident readiness, maintainability, and clear run documentation

• Strong debugging and collaboration skills with architects, security, and external partners

• Comfortable working in a global–local matrix; English and Mandarin required.

What we offer: We are curious minds that come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe that this variety drives excellence and innovation, strengthening our ability to lead in science and technology. We are committed to creating access and opportunities for all to develop and grow at your own pace. Join us in building a culture of inclusion and belonging that impacts millions and empowers everyone to work their magic and champion human progress!

Apply now and become a part of a team that is dedicated to Sparking Discovery and Elevating Humanity!

Job details

Seniority
Senior
Function
Information Technology
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Employment type
FULL_TIME

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Information Technology role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 592 comparable Senior Information Technology roles across 56 biopharma companies.

592Comparable roles tracked
549Currently active
56Companies hiring similar roles
31Countries represented

Salary context

75 of 592 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.

This roleSubject Not listed on this posting
Highest disclosed · Dir/Sr. Dir - Lab Automation Engineer, Discovery Oncology · Lilly $180,000/yr – $297,000/yr
Peer group range $98,050 – $238,500 (median $178,500)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 592 comparable roles

India236
United States190
Spain42
Poland20
Philippines12
United Kingdom12

+ 25 more countries

Seniority mix

592 of 592 peers have a known seniority level

Senior406
Principal95
Associate Director91

Therapeutic area mix

4 of 592 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology3
Vaccines & Infectious Disease1

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How we calculate "similar"

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Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.

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