Staff Software Engineer (Platform Infrastructure)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (Platform Infrastructure): Define the technical direction for a platform that enables enterprise customers to deploy Lovable securely and reliably with an accent on cloud-agnostic architecture, sandboxing, networking, encryption, and identity. Focus on building distributed infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud while setting technical direction, mentoring engineers, and solving customer problems without established playbooks.

Location: London

Company

Lovable builds a platform that helps enterprise customers deploy Lovable securely and at scale.

What you will do

• Define the technical direction for the enterprise platform, including cloud architecture and runtime sandboxing.
• Design and build cloud-agnostic systems that work across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
• Set the technical bar for networking, encryption, and identity for enterprise infrastructure.
• Build internal platform capabilities that help engineering teams ship faster.
• Mentor engineers and raise the engineering bar across the organization.
• Partner directly with enterprise customers and cloud providers on complex infrastructure challenges.

Requirements

• Experience architecting platform or infrastructure systems that have scaled in production.
• Deep expertise across AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience designing distributed systems used across multiple teams.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Rust, Java, C++, or similar.
• Experience building secure, reliable systems under demanding production workloads.
• Staff/Principal/founding engineer/CTO-level scope and a track record of setting technical direction.

Culture & Benefits

• Small, talent-dense team with extreme ownership, high velocity, and low-ego collaboration.
• On-site role in London.
• Opportunity to shape a platform rather than inherit one, with many hard architectural decisions still open.
• Direct collaboration with enterprise customers and cloud providers on real infrastructure problems.

Hiring process

• Application submission in English (company language).
• Evaluation focused on scope owned and impact delivered, not only current title.