Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Portugal, +3 more countries.

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of the department's CI/CD and QA platforms, overseeing everything from hardware and infrastructure to CI runners, build and test environments, and enhancing developer experience.

• Ensure the reliability, quality, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of the platform.

• Conduct analysis on CI fleet and service usage to inform data-driven decisions regarding capacity, sizing, and performance.

• Enhance and automate the tools utilized for building, testing, and deployment, eliminating repetitive manual tasks such as flaky tests.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to contribute to platform architecture.

• Monitor service health and maintain documentation through runbooks.

• Integrate alerts into the existing company observability system.

• Implement new services according to industry best practices.

• Assist developers with their requests and transform recurring requests into self-service solutions.

• Oversee incidents from start to finish, including diagnosis, mitigation, and conducting post-mortems.

• Provide infrastructure as code by reviewing merge requests.

• Create technical documentation tailored for engineers across various teams.

• Assign tasks to AI agents and evaluate their outputs.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience at a senior level in infrastructure or SRE, with responsibility for production services.

• Proficiency in Linux systems administration on both bare metal and virtual machines.

• Experience with Kubernetes in production environments, including the management of workloads and clusters, upgrades, and GitOps delivery.

• Familiarity with infrastructure as code using Ansible and Terraform/Terragrunt.

• Hands-on production experience with GitLab CI and CI runners.

• Knowledge of Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics and Grafana, including PromQL.

• Ability to produce technical writing suitable for engineering audiences.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.

• Advanced experience using AI engineering assistants such as Claude and Codex.

• Proficient in both written and spoken English.

• Experience in designing SLO and burn-rate alerts.

• Knowledge of MicroVM isolation techniques using Kata Containers, Firecracker, or gVisor.

• Familiarity with public cloud services and cost optimization strategies.

• Experience with self-hosted monitoring systems under load.

• Proficiency in Python or Go for tool development.

• Experience in GitLab administration.

🏝️ Benefits

• Engage in hands-on technical work while tackling complex, high-impact engineering challenges.

• Address challenging issues in Linux, automation, and cybersecurity across both established and emerging products.

• Enjoy fully remote work with flexible hours.

• Receive 24 paid vacation days.

• Benefit from 10 national holidays.

• Access unlimited sick leave.

• Receive compensation for private medical insurance.

• Get reimbursement for co-working spaces.

• Enjoy gym and sports reimbursement.

• Benefit from an education budget.

• Have the opportunity to earn rewards for innovative ideas that the company can patent.