Senior Platform Engineer
EQT Ventures is the early-stage venture capital strategy of EQT Group, partnering with founders building 'Generation-Defining Companies.' With 1.1 billion euro invested behind the strategy, EQT Ventures acts as an early-stage lead investor, operational advisor, and high-conviction capital provider for ambitious European founders, typically investing between 2-50M EUR.
About EQT Ventures
EQT Ventures partners with founders building Generation-Defining Companies, aiming to back ambitious visions that can become game-changing, resilient businesses. As early-stage lead investors, operational advisors, and high-conviction capital providers, the team—made up of ex-founders and operators—provides hands-on support to help portfolio companies scale fast, break through barriers with access to the global EQT platform, and build long-term resilience. EQT Ventures is domiciled in Luxembourg, with investment advisors located in Stockholm, Paris, London, New York, Berlin and Amsterdam, and is focused on European companies, having backed over 140 founding teams to date across sectors such as AI, fintech, edtech, robotics, and aerospace. The firm operates through multiple funds, including EQT Ventures I, II, and III, with clients/portfolio companies ranging from early-stage startups like Sana Labs, 1X, Payrails, Parloa, and The Exploration Company.
Skills
About the Role
You will lead the design, architecture, and rollout of platform projects across EQT's engineering platform. You will collaborate with engineers across the organization to align on standards and best practices, operate and continuously improve the platform, participate in on-call rotations, support incident response, and enhance reliability, security, and developer experience.
Requirements
- Experience as a senior Platform, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineer
- Proven experience leading platform projects from concept through to production
- Hands-on experience running Kubernetes production environments
- Experience working with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Experience with infrastructure as code, preferably Terraform
- Familiarity with GitOps and CI/CD workflows
- Experience with platform security
- Knowledge of authentication and identity systems
- Strong networking knowledge across cloud and Kubernetes environments
- Interest in the Agentic AI ecosystem
- Experience improving platform and production environment resilience
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, architecture, and rollout of platform projects
- Collaborate with engineers across the organization to align on platform standards and best practices
- Operate and continuously improve the engineering platform
- Contribute to on-call rotations and support platform reliability
- Improve platform reliability, security, and developer experience
- Support incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis
