Platform Engineer, Golang, IaC

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Europe.

📋 Description

• Design and manage the platform that powers all aspects of Spacelift, encompassing CI/CD, observability, and incident response.

• Enhance the code delivery process by minimizing friction, streamlining feedback loops, and eradicating inconsistencies.

• Reinforce SLOs and observability to deliver improved signals for every team.

• Elevate the on-call experience through higher alert quality, quicker response times, and better postmortem practices.

• Optimize platform expenses and scaling behavior across various workloads and regions.

• Take charge of the internal developer experience, from local development to debugging in production.

• Engage in the on-call rotation.

• Continuously expand knowledge in the problem domain.

• Work closely with the team through open communication and shared responsibilities.

• Influence product decisions, experiments, and engineering advancements.

⛳️ Requirements

• A strong enthusiasm for developing products, a passion for technology, and a keen interest in DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Developer Experience.

• Over 4 years of experience in backend or platform engineering, with practical experience managing production systems.

• Proficiency in Go programming.

• Experience in constructing or maintaining CI/CD pipelines, observability frameworks, or tools aimed at developers.

• Background in being on-call and enhancing on-call processes and their root causes.

• Familiarity with an IaC tool such as OpenTofu/Terraform, Ansible, or AWS CloudFormation.

• Strong communication abilities.

• Willingness to learn new tools and technologies.

• A robust product-oriented mindset and an ability to think big-picture.

• A focus on addressing problems rather than merely completing tasks.

• Nice to have: Experience with Claude Code and Datadog.

• Nice to have: Experience in optimizing PostgreSQL/Aurora.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment with options for remote-first arrangements.

• Competitive compensation packages.

• Attractive salary and equity offerings.

• B2B contract structure.

• Continuous deployment practices and the use of feature flags.

• Ownership of work and influence over significant product decisions.

• Access to the best developer tools available.