Staff Platform Engineer
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JobgetherSoftware Platform
Based in Europe, with the role specifically listed for candidates in the Netherlands.Full-TimeStaff
Salary$140,000–$220,000
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or related roles
- Required Skills
- AWSNode.jsPostgreSQLElasticSearchKubernetesTypeScriptRedisTerraform
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or related roles.
- Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production.
- Proven experience operating software in environments outside your direct control, such as BYOC, single-tenant, on-premises, or air-gapped environments.
- Strong AWS expertise, with familiarity with GCP and Azure considered an advantage.
- Advanced experience with Terraform, including reusable modules, secure state management, and multi-account cloud architectures.
- Strong database expertise, particularly with PostgreSQL, including performance optimization, migrations under load, replication, and operational reliability.
- Practical experience with security and compliance programs such as SOC 2, ISO audits, penetration testing, and enterprise security reviews.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure security, observability, incident response, deployment automation, and production operations.
- Familiarity with TypeScript and Node.js.
- Product mindset and developer empathy, with the ability to understand customer problems and build effective infrastructure solutions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Based in Europe, with the role specifically listed for candidates in the Netherlands.
Responsibilities
- Own and scale the cloud infrastructure supporting the platform, including compute, networking, and core data-layer services.
- Lead the development of Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) capabilities, including provisioning, upgrades, observability, and scalable customer-cloud deployments.
- Operationalize and productize Infrastructure as Code and GitOps foundations to enable a small engineering team to ship quickly and reliably.
- Establish reliability as a core product capability by defining meaningful Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and building trusted incident management processes.
- Own and scale critical data infrastructure, including PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, and ClickHouse.
- Drive infrastructure-level security and compliance initiatives covering areas such as SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, penetration testing, and enterprise security reviews.
- Make architectural and infrastructure decisions that balance scalability, reliability, security, performance, and development velocity.
- Partner with engineering and customer-facing teams to understand operational challenges and turn customer needs into practical platform improvements.
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