Senior Platform Engineer

About the role

This is a role that will enable you to contribute some of your finest work. You will be responsible for evolving and scaling our cloud infrastructure, deployment platform and engineering tooling, enabling product teams to deliver software quickly, safely and reliably.

You will work closely with our engineering teams to build and maintain a modern cloud-native platform, improving developer experience through automation and self-service capabilities. You will be a key player in our technology organization, ensuring our infrastructure remains secure, scalable and observable while mentoring other engineers in DevOps best practices.

Our developer platform is in good shape today — it does what it should, and our teams are productive. This is a senior, broad role for someone who will take ownership of it, drive change where change is needed, and make decisions quickly.

You'll help shape the future of our platform as we continue expanding into new markets and scaling our products globally.

Team: you will join a product and development organisation of 12–14 people.

Location: Gothenburg, Stockholm or Malmö — for the first nine months we need you on site with the team. After that, hybrid or remote work is possible.

Start: as soon as possible.

Responsibilities — what you'll do

• Design, build and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS

• Manage and improve our Kubernetes platform and containerized workloads

• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Pulumi

• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Argo CD

• Improve deployment reliability through GitOps practices

• Monitor system health, application performance and reliability using Sentry and other observability tools

• Drive automation across infrastructure provisioning, deployments and operational processes

• Collaborate closely with software engineers to improve developer productivity and release confidence

• Identify operational bottlenecks and eliminate repetitive manual work through automation

• Help define platform architecture and engineering best practices

• Participate in incident management, root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives

• Share knowledge and mentor colleagues in cloud, DevOps and infrastructure engineering

Requirements — key skills

Core

• Extensive experience managing cloud infrastructure on AWS

• Strong experience with Kubernetes in production environments

• Solid experience working with Docker and containerized applications

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Pulumi (or similar tools such as Terraform)

• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins

• Experience implementing GitOps workflows using Argo CD

• Experience designing secure, scalable and highly available cloud architectures

Platform and operations

• Experience with observability platforms, including the ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) and Sentry for logging, monitoring and incident investigation

• Experience managing and operating production databases, including PostgreSQL, MariaDB/MySQL, Elasticsearch and Sphinx, with a focus on performance, reliability and scalability

• Experience supporting development teams through platform engineering and DevOps best practices

Foundations

• Good understanding of Linux, networking and cloud security concepts

• Experience working in Agile teams using Kanban and/or Scrum

• Strong scripting skills (Bash, PowerShell or Python) are considered a plus

Requirements — nice to have skills

• Experience with multi-environment Kubernetes clusters

• Experience with cost optimization in AWS

• Familiarity with security scanning and policy enforcement

• Experience building internal developer platforms

• Experience with disaster recovery and backup strategies

Requirements — who you are

• A senior engineer with broad coverage across the platform, rather than a single specialism

• Able to drive work forward independently and make decisions quickly

• Passionate about building reliable platforms that empower development teams

• Enjoy automating everything that can be automated

• Curious about new cloud technologies and continuously improving engineering practices

• Comfortable working across infrastructure, networking and software development

• Love solving difficult operational and scalability challenges

• Comfortable working with a global engineering team

• A collaborative team player who values knowledge sharing and continuous learning

Our offer to you

• By joining the fast-growing team you will be rewarded with exciting days and a high degree of freedom and space for growth, both professionally and personally

• You will be supported by a close team of high achieving individuals aiming to push the limits in new directions

• You will have the opportunity and expectation to be a key player in the technology story for a rapidly growing and highly-regarded global start-up

• Ability to work from a centrally located office in Gothenburg, Stockholm or Malmö

• Possibility for a hybrid or remote work after the initial period on site

About this recruitment

Datarista is handling this recruitment on behalf of our client. You will be employed directly by the client company, not by Datarista. We'll tell you who the employer is in our first conversation.