Platform Engineer (Infrastructure)
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Job description
Fresha is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer, with a background or hands on experience in software development, to join our Platform and Infrastructure Engineering Team. You will help push our platform and engineering department to the next phase, ensuring engineers have the best internal tools, local developer experience and necessary resources to work more efficiently and continue to deliver industry leading features to our growing platform.
Platform Team Mission
Improve software development lifecycle to be: Reliable, Secure, Fast & Cost effective, ensuring we always take the proper steps to prioritise our engineers' needs and ability to reach their optimal velocity while optimising our budgets and keeping our costs flexible to meet business objectives. We achieve this by:
- Build simple, composable components-Inspired by the Unix philosophy of simplicity and modularity.
- Each service does one thing well.
- Clear interfaces over complex implementations.
- Push complexity to the edges where it belongs.
- We make adoption optional, value mandatory. Engineers choose their tools and approaches; Platform features win by being better, not by force. Only security and compliance are non negotiable.
- We invest in knowledge and automation equally: Build with future AI assistance in mind, document context and decisions, not just steps, and automate repetitive tasks.
All Fresha employees work from our dog friendly office in London 4 days per week, with the flexibility to work remotely on Wednesday each week. London office address: The Bower, The Tower, 207 Old St, London EC1V 9NR.
Tech Stack
- Docker in production and local development
- AWS EKS
- Kafka for our asynchronous message queues
- Elixir / Ruby for main services
- NextJS/Typescript for our frontend services
- RDS PostgreSQL for persistent data storage
- GitHub Action as CI tool of choice-Jenkins & Argo Workflow for legacy pipelines
- Redis for key/value store
- Terraform for resource management
Requirements
- Automation-Seek out processes that can be improved with automation and have internal Developer Experience as the main driver.
- Leadership-Effectively scope and lead projects autonomously.
- Developer Experience-Extend our local development experience offerings for engineers.
- Knowledge Sharing-Enrich knowledge across the department by creating Documentation, SOPs, Runbooks and fascinating knowledge sharing sessions.
- Observability-Extend Monitoring & Observability capabilities.
- Accessibility-Simplifying the process for engineers to access this data.
- Collaboration-Collaborate and enable engineers to do their jobs more efficiently.
- Efficiency-Developing tools to maximise engineering efficiency, such as automating the rollback of deployed applications.
We'd love to hear from you if you
- Have experience in software development.
- Demonstrate strong opinions and actively contribute ideas, driving discussions and solutions.
- Are deeply passionate about their work and proactively challenge existing processes to foster continuous improvement.
- Have experience working with microservices and distributed systems at scale.
- Have experience with working on cross team projects.
- Have AWS experience; we use EKS, RDS, S3, Cloudfront and MSK extensively.
- Have an understanding of SLIs, SLOs & SLAs.
- Knowledge of platform and ops concepts such as networking and Linux administration.
- Experience with monitoring tools: we use Datadog, Grafana, ELK, Sentry and OpsGenie.
Benefits & conditions
£90,000 - £120,000 a year
Inclusive Workforce
At Fresha, we are creating a culture where individuals of all backgrounds feel comfortable. We want all Fresha people to feel included and truly empowered to contribute fully to our vision and goals. Everyone who applies will receive fair consideration for employment.
