Platform Engineer

Most “platform” roles are either infra-heavy or backend-heavy.

This one sits in the middle.

This company is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to work across the systems that keep their platform fast, reliable, and scalable at global scale

It’s broad, technical, and not confined to one layer of the stack.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll move between infrastructure and software depending on what’s needed.

• Troubleshooting issues across AWS
• Writing Python to support platform systems
• Working on integrations and some identity-related systems (SAML/SCIM)
• Handling upgrades (Python, Django) and dealing with breaking changes
• Improving database performance, rewriting queries, reducing latency
• Getting pulled into cross-system problems that don’t belong to one team

This isn’t a “you own one service” role. You’ll work across the platform where the problems are.

Tech environment

Cloud-native, AWS-first setup with a modern stack including Python/Django, ECS, Postgres, Kinesis, Lambda, and Terraform

They ship frequently and operate at real scale, so changes have impact.

So the work is a mix of:

• scaling and strengthening existing systems
• solving performance issues that only show up at volume
• improving reliability before customers feel problems

What they’re looking for

• Senior engineer (5+ years building production systems )
• Comfortable writing real code (Python helpful, not essential)
• Experience working on distributed systems at scale
• Someone who can operate without a playbook and make good calls in grey areas

They’re leaning toward infra engineers who can code, rather than backend engineers with light infra exposure.

Team & setup

You’ll be working in a small, senior team that operates across the platform rather than in silos

• Remote-first (Northern Ireland/Ireland)
• Regular meetups and offsites
• High collaboration across engineering

If you like variety, real systems problems, and work that actually impacts how a platform runs day-to-day, this is worth a conversation.

#J-18808-Ljbffr