Senior Software Engineer – Platform Engineering

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

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and manage CI/CD pipelines utilized by all engineering teams.

• Create and sustain observability and monitoring tools for debugging in production.

• Develop local development environment tools that simulate production-like scenarios on engineers’ laptops.

• Identify and resolve infrastructure friction at its source for engineering teams.

• Troubleshoot intricate issues involving CI/CD, observability tools, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure.

• Contribute to the platform's roadmap and backlog.

• Engage in the hiring process, including conducting technical interviews and live coding sessions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong foundation in software engineering, encompassing clean abstractions, maintainable code, and well-reasoned architectural decisions.

• Production experience with Go is highly preferred; candidates lacking Go experience should exhibit strong systems programming capabilities in a similar language.

• Experience in platform engineering, building, and managing CI/CD and GitOps systems, infrastructure as code, container orchestration, observability and monitoring tools, and cloud platforms.

• Familiarity with GitLab CI, Argo CD, Kargo, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, AWS, GCP, or Azure.

• Experience with AI coding agents and agentic development workflows.

• Successfully led a complex project from start to finish.

• Proficient debugging, optimization, and performance tuning skills.

• Strong command of English, both verbal and written.

• Adaptive, proactive, and comfortable with uncertainty.

• Participate in an on-call rotation for teams that require it.

• Nice to have: Experience with Kubernetes operators, Helm chart creation, and admission webhooks.

• Nice to have: Design of internal developer platforms, golden paths, self-service tools, and service catalogs.

• Nice to have: Local development tools such as devcontainers, Tilt, or Skaffold.

• Nice to have: Contributions to Kubernetes or cloud-native open-source software.

• Must reside in Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, or Ukraine.

• No visa sponsorship or work permits available.

🏝️ Benefits

• Separate compensation for on-call participation (covering both passive monitoring and active interventions).

• Flexible, remote-first global work environment.

• Equity options available.

• 10% of work time allocated for personal projects or self-improvement.

• Learning budget for professional and personal development, including attendance at international conferences and courses.

• Annual hackathon event.

• Budget for team-building activities and company events.

• Equipment budget provided.

• Additional days off.

• Company-covered travel expenses for onboarding in Vilnius.