Staff Platform Engineer - UK
Core
Build and scale a future-proof platform infrastructure for a high-growth hiring software company, ensuring reliability, security, and developer productivity for engineering teams.
Role type
Staff Platform Engineer (SRE)
Builds
Scalable cloud infrastructure, automated guardrails, event-driven architectures, and developer tooling for a SaaS product.
Domain
SaaS / Hiring Technology / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Kubernetes, SQL, TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, Datadog, Sentry, circuit-breakers, canary deployments, SLO/SLI definition, event-driven architecture, database optimization, security enforcement, async communication
Preferred skills
Infrastructure-as-code, debugging complex distributed systems, TypeScript traces analysis, feature flags, data warehouse implementation
Technologies
Kubernetes, AWS, Datadog, Sentry, Postgres, Redis, TypeScript, Node.js, React, Apollo GraphQL
Responsibilities
Optimize homegrown DSL-to-SQL compiler, create automated security guardrails, implement canary deploys and feature flags, define and implement SLOs/SLIs, ensure external service resilience with retries/circuit-breakers, build event-driven architecture and data warehouse infrastructure.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic impact
