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# Platform Engineer (Remote, Europe)

- **Company:** Spacelift
- **Location:** Málaga, Spain
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, DevOps, Ansible, Datadog, Backend, Cloudformation, Terraform
- **Published:** August 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.buscojobs.com.es/platform-engineer-remote-europe-en-malaga-ID-365449260

## About the Role

Passion for building products, love for tech, and interest in the problem space (DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Developer Experience)
4+ years of experience in backend or platform engineering, with hands-on experience owning production systems
Experience working with Go
You have built or maintained CI/CD pipelines, observability stacks, or developer-facing tooling
You have been on-call and improved it - not just responded to pages, but fixed root causes and leveled up the process
Experience working with an IaC tool - OpenTofu/Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation
You have excellent communication skills
Eager to learn new tools and technologies
Strong product mindset and big-picture thinking
Focused on solving problems, not just completing tasks
Nice to have
Experience with Claude Code, Datadog
How we work

## Description

The roleBuild and own the platform that powers all of Spacelift - from CI/CD to observability to incident responseStrengthen our SLOs and observability posture - give every team better signalsSharpen our on-call experience by improving alert quality, response speed, and postmortem hygieneOptimise platform cost and scaling behaviour across workloads and regionsOwn developer experience internally: from local dev to debugging productionKeep learning about our problem spaceYou build it, you run it - you will also be part of the on-call rotationAbout YouPassion for building products, love for tech, and interest in the problem space (DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Developer Experience)4+ years of experience in backend or platform engineering, with hands-on experience owning production systemsExperience working with GoYou have built or maintained CI/CD pipelines, observability stacks, or developer-facing toolingYou have been on-call and improved it - not just responded to pages, but fixed root causes and leveled up the processExperience working with an IaC tool - OpenTofu/Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormationYou have excellent communication skillsEager to learn new tools and technologiesStrong product mindset and big-picture thinkingFocused on solving problems, not just completing tasksNice to haveExperience with Claude Code, DatadogHow we workWe move fast. Continuous deployments at least 2 times a day, we make heavy use of feature flags (LaunchDarkly)Ownership over our work and driving key product decisionsWorking closely as a team, transparent communication, caring about our system, ourselves, and customersEverything is an iteration and everything is an experimentCultivate space for small and big innovation from all-engineering hackathons to smaller, ad-hoc experimentsWe use the best dev tools that we can get our hands onWhy Spacelift?Innovative Culture: Join a team shaping cloud infrastructure management's futureGrowth Opportunities: Be a key player in driving Spacelift's business and AWS partnership to new heightsWork-Life Balance: Flexible work environment, with remote-first options and competitive compensation packagesCollaborative Team: Work with passionate, talented people committed to driving success for our customers and partnersCompetitive salaryandequity package: B2B contractHiring Process90' Technical interview with live coding45' Final Leadership call with our Director of EngineeringOur valuesWe build for CUSTOMERSWe RESPECT each otherWe take OWNERSHIP seriouslyWe succeed through COLLABORATIONMore here:Join Us! At Spacelift, you won't just be working on a technical product - you'll be part of a team shaping the future of DevOps. Apply to contribute to a platform loved by its users and take your career to the next level!#J-*****-Ljbffr


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