Senior Platform Engineer (remote from Spain)

About Bark

Bark is revolutionising the way people find professionals in over 1,000 unique categories. As the UK's largest and fastest-growing services marketplace, we're on a mission to make finding the right professional quick and easy. With a presence in eleven countries and plans for further expansion, joining us at this genuinely exciting time will be a journey like no other.

Our cutting-edge technology ensures that you can always find the best professional for any job. With a talented team of over 200 dedicated individuals, we're committed to providing exceptional service and ensuring that our customers are satisfied every step of the way.

This is an exciting time to join our scaling business, we recently placed in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024, and previously were 64th in the Sunday Times 100 fastest growing private tech companies in 2023.

As a profitable scale-up, Bark is in a unique position to offer the best of both worlds; the excitement and agility of a start up combined with the financial security and backing of a renowned private equity firm, EMK Capital. You'll have ownership, agility, responsibility and stimulation without any of the worry.

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer with a product-oriented mindset, You will play a pivotal role in maintaining development velocity while ensuring end-to-end platform reliability, excellent security, and fantastic internal tooling. You will have the opportunity to strongly influence and contribute to the team's future.

In Platform Engineering, we focus on creating core AWS components to support millions of daily requests from our applications. We prioritise creating an easy path to production with the right level of abstraction, advocating best practices to our teams, and ensuring environment stability and security. This role includes participation in the paid on-call rota. This is a fast-paced learning role, and you will be supported to stay abreast of the latest advances in platform tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead in technological innovation and architectural design, with outstanding technical capabilities and deep industry experience.

• Design, implement and improve scalable, highly available infrastructure and internal tooling that fits business needs

• Take ownership of ensuring continuous operation of critical systems, including custom applications, databases and ETL pipelines

• Work with Engineering to identify and implement processes and tools to streamline feature deployment in our growing product.

• Enable fast iteration through implementation and improvement of automation
  

Tech Stack:

AWS, GCP, Datadog, Terraform, Kubernetes, Crossplane, Backstage, Contour, Helm, ArgoCD, EC2, MySQL (RDS), PagerDuty, ElasticSearch

Required Skills and Experience

• A minimum of 5 years professional experience DevOps, DevSecOps or Platform Engineering roles.

• You have experience contributing to and driving successful digital transformation programs, working across diverse organisational structures and challenges.

• Proven ability to drive complex technical solutions independently

• Hands on experience with linux and AWS

• Ability to work effectively in a team, communicate well, and consider different viewpoints.

• Experience with modern programming languages and an interest in creating tooling to support internal customers.

• Familiarity with Helm, Terraform, Kubernetes and other parts of our tech stack.

Nice to have

• Capable of articulating, designing, and implementing self-service internal developer platforms, focusing on usability, scalability, and maintainability.

• Specialisation in Security, Databases or Machine Learning

• Track-record of effective collaboration with other teams and departments to drive holistic outcomes

• A proactive, innovative mindset with the ability to drive continuous improvement

• Experience mentoring colleagues

Perks and Benefits

• Fully remote working
• Personal annual L&D Budgets with 600€ to spend on your development
• Being at the forefront of an industry with new and exciting problems to solve

Interview Process

• Screening Call with Talent Partner (30 mins)

• 1st Stage - Hiring Manager Stage (30/45 mins)

• 2nd Stage - Technical Task (60 mins)

• 3rd Stage - Values interview (45 mins)

Diversity Statement

At Bark, we are a platform for people, revolutionising the way professionals and individuals connect since 2014. Our culture is defined by excitement, ambition, and a commitment to raising the bar. We value diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) and are dedicated to embedding these principles into everything we do. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, and our focus is on hiring, retaining and developing a globally diverse workforce that is passionate about excelling our platform and supporting our customers succeed. Be part of our dynamic team, where bold ideas thrive, and create a future worth shouting about.