Platform Engineer

Skills

About the Role

You will design and operate cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code, run Kubernetes in production, and develop automation, CI/CD pipelines, and internal tooling to improve developer experience. You will build monitoring and observability, participate in on-call rotations, respond to incidents and post-mortems, and implement security and compliance as part of everyday engineering.

Requirements

• Experience designing, operating, and optimising cloud infrastructure in production (ideally AWS)
• Experience running Kubernetes in production and understanding its operational trade-offs
• Willingness to be on call and take responsibility for production systems
• Security-minded system design and experience implementing compliance constraints
• Experience building developer tooling, automation, and CI/CD pipelines
• Solid foundation in computer science fundamentals and system design
• Strong communication skills for remote collaboration and ability to work autonomously
• Bonus: experience operating streaming systems (e.g. Redpanda) or running infrastructure on bare metal

Responsibilities

• Design, operate, and continuously improve cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, and observability
• Identify bottlenecks and drive reliability and performance improvements for critical platform components
• Run Kubernetes in production and evolve how it is operated
• Develop and maintain automation, CI/CD pipelines, and internal developer tooling
• Build monitoring and observability that make system health and performance easy to understand
• Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to incident response and post-mortems
• Implement and operate security and compliance constraints as part of normal engineering work

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity package (top 25% in the space)
• Employee equity scheme with heavily discounted strike price (~90%) and 10-year exercise window
• 5 weeks PTO plus local public holidays (swappable)
• Fully remote-first approach with flexible working hours
• Private medical insurance, dental, and vision
• Paid parental leave: 16 weeks primary and 6 weeks secondary caregivers, plus 2-week part-time phased return at full pay
• Quarterly offsites and yearly travel allowance for co-working
• Allowance for at-home setup or local co-working desk
• Company swag