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Senior Platform Engineer

Cape Town💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-12 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, deploy, and operate the mission-critical infrastructure layer (Kubernetes, VPCs, compute, storage) powering a global commerce partnership platform for 5,000+ brands.

Role type

Senior IC Platform Engineer (Infrastructure)

Builds

Production-grade infrastructure abstractions, managed pub/sub systems, and shared services for the platform team.

Domain

Cloud-native infrastructure, Commerce/Marketing Technology

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Kubernetes, Java, Linux, Networking, Terraform, GitOps, Observability, Incident Response, Mentoring

Preferred skills

GCP, AWS/Azure, Shared Services at Scale, Kafka, Service Mesh

Technologies

Kubernetes, Kafka, Terraform, Argo CD, Flux, GCP, AWS, Azure

Responsibilities

Lead design and operation of platform-layer infrastructure (VPCs, compute, storage, networking); Own monitoring of managed pub/sub systems (Kafka); Design abstractions for service teams to express infrastructure requirements; Operate infrastructure at 99.9% uptime; Anchor technical standards for the Shared Services team; Mentor junior engineers.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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