Senior Platform Engineer

We are seeking a Principal / Staff Platform Engineer to shape the architectural evolution of the company's cloud control plane and internal platform foundations.

This is a systems-level engineering role focused on:

• Evolving control-plane architecture and cluster abstractions
• Driving service-to-service modernisation, including gRPC adoption and service mesh patterns
• Establishing event-driven and pub/sub foundations for scalable platform communication
• Designing Kubernetes-native abstractions, including operator-level patterns
• Improving multi-tenant reliability, resilience and observability across distributed environments
• Building internal platform capabilities that reduce cognitive load and accelerate engineering velocity

Architectural Scope

You will contribute to and lead initiatives across:

• Control-plane and cluster-level system design
• Kubernetes-native platform abstractions
• Event-driven service communication models
• Observability and telemetry strategy (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
• Reliability engineering and resilience patterns
• Platform refactoring to support enterprise-scale SaaS deployments

Do you have experience in gRPC?, This position is suited to engineers with experience in database, SaaS or systems-level product environments where performance, scale and reliability are core product differentiators.

Open-source contribution experience is highly valued, reflecting the company's engineering culture.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years in platform, infrastructure or distributed systems engineering
• Deep expertise in Go (Python beneficial)
• Strong Kubernetes and cloud-native systems design experience
• Experience building systems consumed internally by multiple engineering teams
• Proven ability to drive architectural alignment and platform evolution
• Background in SaaS, database or infrastructure-first product organisations, * yrs architecting control-plane systems?: 2 years (required)

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £115,000.00-£140,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Work from home

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