Platform Engineer

Tech: Go, TypeScript, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS CDK/Pulumi, Azure/AWS, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI The Role

A product-led SaaS company is investing in their internal platform function to support multiple engineering teams. You'll join a small, high-impact group responsible for the tooling, infrastructure, developer experience and reliability that underpins their global product.

This isn't a ticket-based ops role - it's platform engineering with autonomy, ownership and influence. What You'll Be Doing

• Building and evolving internal platform services used by multiple product teams
• Designing and improving developer workflows and environments
• Improving CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation and release practices
• Working on cloud infrastructure architecture (AWS or Azure)
• Maintaining and growing Kubernetes clusters + container platforms
• Owning IaC patterns and best practice across the engineering organisation
• Supporting engineering teams with tooling, observability and performance

Tech Environment

Languages / Tooling:

• Go, TypeScript, Python (nice-to-have), Bash scripting

Infrastructure & Platform:

• Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE or self-managed)
• Docker
• Terraform (core), Pulumi or AWS CDK
• AWS or Azure cloud services
• VPC/networking, load balancing, service mesh (Istio/Linkerd a bonus)

Automation / CI/CD:

• GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins
• Automated testing + security scanning in pipelines
• Artifact management, container registries

Observability & Operability:

• Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
• Logging pipelines (ELK/Loki/Cloud-native tools)
• Feature flagging, rollout strategies, blue/green, canary

• Strong background in platform engineering, DevOps or SRE
• Experience building internal tools/platforms for software teams
• Familiar with modern cloud-native approaches (containers, IaC, CI/CD)
• Able to improve reliability, developer experience and speed of delivery
• Comfortable working with autonomy in a small team