Senior Platform Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Establish team-level standards for AI-enhanced development via prompt engineering and validation frameworks.

• Detect and address security vulnerabilities and excessive abstraction in AI-generated code, while monitoring team productivity metrics.

• Design, construct, and sustain highly available cloud-native infrastructures.

• Develop and refine CI/CD pipelines and tools for developers.

• Implement and uphold platform security measures and compliance standards.

• Contribute to the roadmap for monitoring, tracing, alerting, and system observability.

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to convert technical requirements into scalable platform solutions.

• Provide mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers.

• Lead incident response efforts for services owned by the team.

• Advocate for modern engineering best practices.

• Manage complex features from initial concept through to production, partnering with engineering leads on platform abstractions and enhancing developer experience.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or backend engineering.

• Proven history of developing scalable, cloud-native environments utilizing AWS and Kubernetes.

• Strong expertise in using AI tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot for deploying production code.

• Capability to assess AI-generated code for security vulnerabilities or architectural inaccuracies.

• Implementation of rigorous testing strategies.

• Practical experience with infrastructure-as-code frameworks such as Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation.

• High proficiency in Java and Python; knowledge of Golang is a bonus.

• Experience in building robust CI/CD pipelines.

• Familiarity with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.

• Ability to take charge of complex projects while balancing rapid execution with architectural integrity.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with distributed engineering and product teams.

• Visa sponsorship is not provided; candidates must have the right to work in the United Kingdom.

• Preferred: experience in fast-paced startup environments, financial systems or real-money transactions, regulatory compliance, internal developer tools or CLI applications, and leading small project teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote employees may be eligible for a stipend for home office setup.

• Opportunity for in-person cultural engagement through Launching into Better: LIVE, depending on the role and location.