[Hiring] Platform Engineer @TrustedHousesitters

Role Description

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.
• Champion infrastructure-as-code principles, CI/CD best practices, and robust observability.
• Help complete the migration of our infrastructure to IaC and assist teams in shipping features easily, faster, and with confidence.
• Ensure our services are scalable, reliable, secure, and highly performant.

Key responsibilities include:

• Infrastructure as Code: Design, deploy, and manage our AWS cloud infrastructure using Pulumi (Python).
• CI/CD Pipeline Ownership: Build and optimise our continuous integration and delivery pipelines using CircleCI.
• Observability & Monitoring: Implement and manage comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions using Datadog and Sentry.
• Automation & Tooling: Develop and maintain internal tooling and automation, primarily using Python.
• Scalability & Reliability: Collaborate with product and development teams to architect scalable services and troubleshoot production issues.
• Security & Compliance: Embed security best practices into our infrastructure and deployment processes.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• Salary range: £75,000 - £90,000 a year.