Platform Engineer

This role is crucial for ensuring our services are scalable, reliable, secure, and highly performant.

• Infrastructure as Code: Design, deploy, and manage our AWS cloud infrastructure using Pulumi (Python) to ensure a consistent, repeatable, and version-controlled environment.
• CI/CD Pipeline Ownership: Build and optimise our continuous integration and delivery pipelines using CircleCI to facilitate rapid and reliable deployment of our Next.js (Web), Django (Backend), and React Native/Expo (Mobile) services.
• Observability & Monitoring: Implement and manage comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions using Datadog and Sentry to provide deep visibility into application performance, system health, and user experience.
• Automation & Tooling: Develop and maintain internal tooling and automation, primarily using Python, to improve engineering efficiency and streamline operational tasks.
• Scalability & Reliability: Collaborate with product and development teams to architect scalable services, troubleshoot production issues, and ensure high availability across the platform.
• Security & Compliance: Embed security best practices into our infrastructure and deployment processes, ensuring adherence to internal standards and industry compliance requirements.

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Senior Platform Engineer to join our growing Platform & Enablement team. In this role, you will design, build, and maintain the cloud infrastructure and tooling that powers our Web, Backend, and Mobile applications. You will champion infrastructure-as-code principles, CI/CD best practices, and robust observability. Your goal is to help complete the migration of our infrastructure to IaC and help teams ship features easily, faster, and with confidence., * 7+ years of proven experience in a Platform Engineering, DevOps, or SRE role.

• Deep expertise with a broad range of AWS services, including solid MySQL RDS
• Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, specifically Pulumi with Python.
• Expertise in Python as a general-purpose programming language for tooling and automation.
• Experience with containerisation technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes or ECS.
• Hands-on experience configuring and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using CircleCI.
• Demonstrated experience with monitoring and observability tools, particularly Datadog.
• A product-minded engineering approach able to abstract complex operational problems into elegant, reusable platform solutions.
• Excellent communication skills and confidence collaborating cross-functionally with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable driving initiatives in ambiguous problem spaces, aligning business and technical perspectives.

Nice to haves

• Proven experience mentoring engineers on best practices for infrastructure and reliability.
• Familiarity with the operational concerns of deploying and running diverse technology stacks, including Next.js/TypeScript, Django/Python and React Native/Expo.
• Experience with data store infrastructure such as OpenSearch, Redis, and ElastiCache.
• Experience delivering infrastructure projects, driving consensus, and providing guidance to peers.
• Experience integrating AI/ML-powered tools or APIs to enhance platform capabilities.
• Experience working in a fast-paced, product-led growth environment.
• A mindset geared toward continuous improvement and operational excellence.

If you're ready to join us on our mission to become the most loved pet travel solution, we'd love to hear from you! In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example- she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc).

TrustedHousesitters is a fast growing, direct-to-consumer marketplace that is redefining pet care and travel. Here at TrustedHousesitters, we're on a mission to make travel work better for pets, for their people, and for the global community of animal lovers who look after them. We've got big plans on becoming the world's most-loved travel solution for pet people. We've built something pretty special: a trusted place where pet owners and sitters connect to keep pets happy at home while their humans explore the world. We've already grown into a global community with members in over 140 countries, a product people genuinely love, and a team of more than 100 brilliant humans powering it all. But we're only just getting started. Our goal? To grow to 1 million members and make TrustedHousesitters the world's most-loved travel solution for pet people. At the moment, a sit starts every two minutes somewhere on the planet. We want that to be every single minute and we know the only way we'll get there is with the right people in the right roles. The right people in the right roles will shape our future. So, here's the big question: Could that be you? Now is an exciting time to join TrustedHousesitters-where innovation, advocacy and community-driven growth are at the heart of our success. If you're looking to make a real impact in a mission-led, fast-scaling tech business, this is the right place for you.