Junior Platform Engineer

Junior Platform Engineer Location: India

Introduction to TM Forum :

TM Forum is a global alliance of more than 800 telco and tech companies, leading the industry in defining the building blocks for new operating models, impactful new partnerships, and advanced software platforms. The Forum helps its members unlock the value of data to create nearly endless opportunities for players across the communications ecosystem. At global events including DTW Ignite, TM Forum provides a platform for industry change-makers to share ground-breaking innovation, market developments, product launches and business transformation journeys. We are the only industry body to count the world’s top 10 CSPs and all the key hyperscalers as active, strategic members. We are on a mission to reinvent the telco industry as a vibrant part of the digital landscape – and a driving force in shaping its future. To find out more, visit: tmforum.org .

Role Overview:

TheJunior Platform Engineeris a key technical and community-facing role responsible for owning, maintaining, governing, and evolving the TM Forum API tooling ecosystem. This includes the tools used to design, generate, validate, publish, and certify TM Forum Open APIs. The role is designed in the “open source maintainer” sense — providing leadership, moderation, code review, roadmap shaping, and operational stewardship for tools that underpin the global TM Forum API program.

The Maintainer is essential to stabilizing and scaling the API Factory, eliminating single points of failure, unlocking throughput, and improving automation of our build process.

Key Responsibilities

1. Ownership & Governance of API Tooling

Serve as the single accountable owner for day to day health and performance of TM Forum ’s API tooling ecosystem.

Act as the gatekeeper(responsible person for) and design authority for tool quality, standards compliance, and architectural alignment (OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, JSON Schema, OAuth/OIDC, ODA compatibility).

Ensure all tooling aligns with TM Forum ’s contract-first, standards-first architectural principles.

2. Community & Contribution Management

Moderate and support member contributions — reviewing, mentoring, and merging community tooling updates.

Facilitate technical contributions across vendors, CSPs, integrators and hyperscalers, ensuring fairness and neutrality.

Drive open collaboration and maintain contributor engagement.

3. Delivery Pipeline & CI/CD Support

Maintain the tooling that underpins our API build release, and publication process.

Work closely with DevOps to remove bottlenecks in CI/CD for APIs and associated code assets.

Support CTK (Conformance Test Kit) automation, generation, bug triage, and certification tooling evolution.

4. Roadmap, Innovation & Future proofing