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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Software Engineer - **Company:** Super Technologies - **Location:** Netherlands - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Data Stores, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Prometheus, Software Engineering, Data Logging, Grafana, Kubernetes, Dynatrace - **Published:** August 11, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.nl/details/5835754052 ## About the Role * Extensive experience in SRE, software, and platform engineering, including operating, debugging, and reasoning about large-scale distributed systems in production * Proven track record in incident leadership and reliability work, including running complex incidents, writing postmortems, and delivering systemic changes that stick * Hands-on experience with observability stacks (metrics, logs, traces), including tools such as Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics, Loki, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry, alongside distributed tracing * Sound judgement to identify when an architecture is unsuitable for a given workload and to define what should replace it * Strong software engineering skills, ideally in Go, with deep experience in AWS and Kubernetes * A mindset that treats repeated manual work as a problem to solve, with automation as second nature * Ability to act as a technical reference for senior engineers and drive change across teams without formal authority, through design rigour and credibility * Comfortable operating in ambiguous, high-impact environments, with the ability to plan a year or two ahead for platform needs Nice to have * Experience building or operating a large-scale time-series, logging, or continuous-profiling platform (e.g. VictoriaMetrics, Loki, Pyroscope, or similar) * Strong understanding of the cost and performance trade-offs of data stores, and how these shape architectural decisions ## Description Netherlands Voltijd NIEUW We are on a mission to pioneer the world's next era of play. As we grow across Europe and Latin America, we're building The Playstack - the technology powering the next generation of sports, gaming, and fan experiences. Join us, and help make it the most widely used platform in the world! From operations, to marketing, to product, we are looking for talented people who will shape how millions of customers play, watch, and connect every day. As a Staff Software Engineer / Staff Platform Engineer, you'll join our platform area, where we build the foundations every product team relies on to ship quickly and run safely in production. You'll work alongside a team of strong senior engineers, setting technical direction, raising the reliability bar, and helping the whole team sharpen its skills - when they hit a wall, they'll escalate to you. What the role involves Reliability & Operational Excellence * Make operational processes - deployments, upgrades, migrations - routine, safe, and reversible * Lead incident response end-to-end, owning postmortems and turning findings into lasting systemic improvements * Automate repeated manual work, treating recurring tasks as issues to be resolved rather than accepted Observability Depth * Build monitoring and alerting that reflects customer impact, so any engineer can move from "something broke" to "here's why" in minutes * Own the reliability and efficiency roadmap, identifying the biggest gaps and coordinating fixes across teams Technical Leadership & Culture * Set technical direction through design reviews, RFCs, and pairing, raising the bar for strong senior engineers * Champion rigour and consistency across the platform, ensuring teams understand trade-offs, not just rules * Run blameless postmortems that surface causes rather than blame, helping the team learn and improve each cycle ## Related Videos - [Handling incidents collaboratively is like solving a rubix cube](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/680-handling-incidents-collaboratively-is-like-solving-a-rubix-cube) - [5 steps for running a Kubernetes environment at scale](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/88-5-steps-for-running-a-kubernetes-environment-at-scale) - [Data binning and understanding histograms](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2086-data-binning-and-understanding-histograms) - [The Power of Purpose: Unlocking Potential and Innovation](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1110-the-power-of-purpose-unlocking-potential-and-innovation) - [All your telemetry data from any source in one place](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/57-all-your-telemetry-data-from-any-source-in-one-place) - [Keycloak case study: Making users happy with service level indicators and observability](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1599-keycloak-case-study-making-users-happy-with-service-level-indicators-and-observability) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [The Best Software Developer Blogs to Read](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/156-the-best-software-developer-blogs-to-read) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers)