Remote Senior Platform Engineer

Summary

Join our Platform team and help drive our growth by designing, maintaining, and improving our platform and processes.

Requirements

• Strong familiarity with Amazon Web Services, multi-account experience preferred
• Expertise using Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to automate application deployment and infrastructure provisioning
• Able to diagnose and troubleshoot problems in a distributed microservice environment
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP networking
• Expertise with Linux (prefer Ubuntu, Alpine, and/or Amazon Linux)
• Understanding of DevOps practices
• Demonstrated experience in managing or leading platform teams, with the ability to grow the team and develop talent within

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain monitoring, logging, and telemetry solutions for proactive performance and reliability management (experience with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Evaluate and integrate new technologies to enhance platform capabilities, especially around containers, databases, and cloud-native architectures
• Ensure security, compliance, and cost optimization in all platform solutions, utilizing tools like IAM, GuardDuty, and AWS Security Hub
• Design, implement, and manage scalable infrastructure solutions using AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront, etc.)
• Manage, scale, and optimize multiple databases (PostgresQL + Druid) to ensure performance, availability, and redundancy
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to streamline release processes and integrate best practices for infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Work closely with stakeholders to identify infrastructure needs and lead initiatives to scale the platform in alignment with business goals
• Drive continuous improvement in the platform’s architecture and processes, optimizing for performance, reliability, and operational efficiency
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align platform development with product goals and strategies
• Mentor and guide junior team members, providing technical leadership and driving best practices across the platform team

Preferred Qualifications

• Gitlab pipelines
• ArgoCD
• Linkerd, Istio or other service mesh
• ELK stack or similar logging platforms
• Ansible or other configuration management tools
• Cloudformation or other IaC tools
• JSON/YAML
• OpenVPN
• Apache Airflow
• Databases (postgres and Druid preferred)
• Cloudflare
• Atlassian tools such as Jira, Confluence, StatusPage

Benefits

• Indefinite contract
• Salary range: 100,000€ - 120,000€
• Eligible for annual bonus
• 36 holidays per year
• Continuing education stipend
• Individual growth plan to progress in the role