Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Jobandtalent as a Platform Engineer and contribute to the future of work. Maintain, improve, and propose new technologies for the platform, collaborating with development and data science teams. Your responsibilities include managing the service lifecycle, ensuring system health, automating processes, and advocating for scalable system design. You will also contribute to internal tooling and participate in on-call rotations. The ideal candidate possesses experience in distributed environments, DevOps, AWS services, container technologies, and automation. Excellent communication skills are essential. Job benefits include competitive salaries, ESOP, flexible hours, remote work options, well-being support, a learning budget, language classes, and visa sponsorship.

Requirements

• Experience setting up and maintaining distributed environments know how to design, implement and operate services with functional, scalability or costs constraints
• Experience working in a DevOps focused culture environment, where the team you’ll join will be providing support to feature teams to accelerate time to market thru tools and baselines offered
• Experience in AWS services and container-related technologies, specially EKS
• Experience in automation and programming to keep Infrastructure as Code. Knowledge of Golang/Python, as most of the tools we provide to the teams, and we are owners of are coded in that language
• Commitment to provide well-tested, performing and high-quality services and strong skill capabilities to push it forward
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to communicate effectively with technical communities
• Able to participate in the remunerated on calls team once every 3-4 weeks
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximise development efficiency
• Experience working as a Sysadmin/Platform engineer in production on services with high traffic

Responsibilities

• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of Services—from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement
• Whiteboard a fix to a scaling problem -- and then make it happen
• Maintain Services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health
• Take Operational responsibility for the Services that we own, including taking part in an On-Call rotation, practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
• Automate as much as humanly possible and always configure as Code
• Advocate sensible, scalable, systems design and share responsibility within the organisation in diagnosing, resolving and preventing production issues through mechanisms like automation
• Evolve Services by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
• Contribute to our Internal Tooling set that helps us improve our Operations processes, manage our Infrastructure, and scale our Systems

Benefits

• Salary and Performance reviews every six months
• Highly competitive salaries
• ESOP (Employee Stock Plan) program and all technical staff are eligible for it after reaching a certain level of seniority
• Flexible working hours
• We are a remote-first company, so if your office is at home, we will provide for any equipment you need to do your job
• Free emotional and psychological well-being support with Therapy Chat
• Annual personal learning budget of €1,000 for conferences, courses, books, etc
• Free languages classes: English, Spanish, German, French
• European Visa Sponsorship