Senior Platform Engineer

Technical Futures Ltd
Luton, United Kingdom
yesterday

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
£ 90K

Job location

Remote
Luton, United Kingdom

Tech stack

API
Systems Engineering
Cloud Computing
Software Quality
Linux
Python
OAuth
OpenID
Ansible
Software Engineering
Data Storage Technologies
Information Technology
Slurm
Machine Learning Operations
Docker

Job description

  • Work collaboratively with engineers and scientists to help design the platform layer.
  • Contribute to the design of systems and the APIs between them.
  • Build services that coordinate work, manage state, and handle failure.
  • Help optimize complex engineering systems as part of our deeptech platform.
  • Apply strong code quality practices across our platform engineering work.

Technologies:

  • Ansible
  • Cloud
  • Linux
  • Podman
  • Python
  • Rust

Requirements

  • Strong academic background in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or Scientific Software, or a related field.
  • Strong software engineering skills in modern languages, ideally including Python and Rust.
  • Experience designing systems and the APIs between them, including services that coordinate work, manage state, and handle failure.
  • Care for code quality.
  • Senior-level to Staff-level experience.
  • Experience with cloud computing or HPC job management such as Slurm.
  • Knowledge of identity and authorization flows such as OAuth2 and OIDC.
  • Experience deploying containerized services on Linux, such as Podman.
  • Experience with infrastructure as code, such as Ansible and OpenTofu.
  • Familiarity with modern Python tooling and packaging.
  • Experience with data storage and pipelines, including large simulation results and model serving.

Benefits & conditions

We are an exciting deeptech start-up focused on optimizing complex engineering systems. We offer hybrid working with 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home, a very generous base salary depending on skills and experience, and benefits including shares, 30 days holiday plus time off between Christmas and New Year, private healthcare, a pension plan, life assurance, and more. We are looking for a bright, forward-thinking Senior Platform Engineer to join our dedicated team and have a real say in how our platform layer is designed.

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