Platform Engineer

Team: Bloom & Wild

Location: Europe - Remote

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: hybrid

This includes:

Embedded Engagements: Partner with domain squads, shipping code and tools to directly enhance their capability and solve real problems.

Paved Roads: Build shared, adoption-driven infrastructure like feature flags, canary rollouts, fast builds, and CI/CD patterns—making the easiest path the best path.

AI Integration: Extend AI across the engineering lifecycle (ticket generation, config authoring, incident response, code review), operating with AI as your core working mode and creating reusable patterns.

Core Infrastructure: Maintain and evolve shared services: AWS, GitHub, Datadog, Cloudflare, distributing ownership across the Platform team.

Eliminate Toil: Aggressively automate manual processes and remove friction from the developer day-to-day.

Enable Ownership: Coach squads on SLOs, observability, and AI tooling, ensuring they are capable of owning their production behaviour without relying on Platform.

Strategic Impact: Proactively identify, scope, and deliver high-leverage problems from month six onwards.

✅ You’ll love this role if you…

• Have day-to-day experience with AWS and Terraform, and the judgement to make real calls on infrastructure shape, cost, and reliability. Our stack includes ECS Fargate, RDS, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, Lambda, and EventBridge — you'll be working on this from early on.

• Have good judgement across CI/CD and observability — comfortable with safe and reliable deployment practices (we use GitHub Actions and Terraform Cloud), and comfortable using metrics, logs, and traces to understand how applications and infrastructure behave.

• Use AI coding tools as part of your daily workflow today, or are visibly excited to work this way. You don't need to be an expert in any specific tool — the Platform team will meet you there — but you do need to want it.

• Are willing to pick up app-side stacks like Ruby and Python, and are comfortable operating inside long-lived monoliths without trying to rewrite them.

• Take end-to-end ownership of problems — you spot something, you scope it, you drive it through to done. The work here is not always handed to you as a ticket; you're comfortable operating in ambiguity and defining the problem before the solution.

• Innovation — A curious mindset — you love to learn and often take initiative to improve things.

• Delivering results — Proactive — you take responsibility and initiative to get things done, are willing to roll up your sleeves and get stuck in.

• Stakeholder management — You love to collaborate, and are at your best when working cross-functionally with other teams.

• Problem analysis — You're excited about problem-solving and love to take a logical and collaborative approach to finding solutions.

• Coachability — A growth mindset; you're open to feedback and coaching, and seek out opportunities for learning and development.

 

It would be great if you also have...

• Been part of rolling out production-ownership practices across a team or organisation.

• Experience working on an e-commerce site or in a fast-growing (preferably consumer-facing) environment.

• Experience setting patterns that other engineers adopted without being told to.

• Experience writing services or apps that fit into distributed architectures — working with APIs, event-driven patterns, and the contracts and practices that keep distributed systems stable.

Please note that this is a remote role. 
 
These are some of the skills and experience we think will enable success in this role, but please don’t worry if you are missing some of these. We’re committed to building a team made up of different strengths, skills and experiences, so if you’re excited about our values, passionate about what you do and would like to join us in doing things more thoughtfully, we’d love to hear from you.