Senior Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Enhance developer productivity and enablement throughout the engineering organization.

• Create and refine self-service tools and best practices, including project templates, CI/CD pipelines, and scaffolding utilities.

• Streamline onboarding processes and minimize the time to achieve meaningful contributions to production.

• Facilitate developer experience initiatives such as office hours, internal workshops, and lunch-and-learn events.

• Develop and sustain documentation and runbooks.

• Collect developer experience feedback and utilize it to prioritize the development roadmap.

• Collaborate with engineering teams through shadowing, pairing, and dogfooding practices.

• Contribute to the Platform roadmap and establish clear success criteria.

• Participate in observability as code initiatives.

• Ensure the availability and performance of AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), and MongoDB Cloud infrastructure.

• Strengthen production systems to enhance uptime, graceful degradation, and automated recovery.

• Modernize CI/CD pipelines by implementing GitOps methodologies such as ArgoCD.

• Advance Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code practices.

• Establish or enhance SLAs and SLOs for essential platform infrastructure.

• Collaborate with the Security team to bolster compliance and security measures.

• Identify and implement opportunities for infrastructure cost savings.

• Make architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and advocate for Platform priorities in cross-functional discussions.

⛳️ Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience in software engineering.

• Significant experience as a product/application engineer prior to transitioning into platform-related roles.

• Experience in building or contributing to internal developer platforms, portals, or self-service tools.

• Proficiency in designing paved roads or golden paths.

• Experience enhancing CI/CD pipelines for increased reliability, speed, and developer feedback mechanisms.

• Involvement in developer enablement initiatives, including documentation, training, pairing, or internal advocacy.

• Familiarity with developer experience metrics or frameworks such as DORA, SPACE, or internal DevEx surveys.

• Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Datadog.

• Proficient in at least one programming language, such as Go, Python, or TypeScript, or possess strong shell scripting skills.

• Excellent communication abilities and capacity to influence technical direction across teams.

• Comprehensive understanding of AWS services, including IAM, S3, EC2, EKS, RDS, and Lambda.

• Experience in running, maintaining, and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters (EKS) in a production, multi-tenant environment.

• Proven expertise in Infrastructure as Code, particularly with Terraform.

• Familiarity with configuration/deployment tools such as Helm.

• Hands-on experience with GitOps CI/CD tools like Argo CD or Flux.

• Experience with MongoDB or similar managed database platforms.

• Experience in monitoring and operating production systems using tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, or Grafana.

• Experience working within a standards-compliant environment, such as ISO 27001.

• Position is open to candidates located in the UK or France.

🏝️ Benefits

• 36 days of leave: 25 holidays + bank holidays + 3 additional days (birthday and ‘feel good’ days).

• Private Health Insurance covering physical and mental health, dental care, and optical services.

• Hybrid and flexible work environment.

• Flexibility to work across Europe.

• Latest MacBook provided, unless a Windows device is preferred.

• Option to select equipment for an ergonomic home office setup.

• Autonomy and ownership in your work.

• Support for professional development and continued learning opportunities.

• Office amenities including barista coffee, tea, fruit, happy hours, and various activities.