Senior Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: United Kingdom remote or London hybrid

Salary: £105,000–£125,000 annually, plus equity

Company

CRM software for ambitious go-to-market teams, featuring customer intelligence, large-scale automation, and AI-native architecture.

What you will do

• Build and evolve infrastructure as code with Terraform, Kubernetes, and GCP.
• Own CI/CD pipelines to make builds, tests, and deployments fast, reliable, and secure.
• Operate observability systems covering metrics, logging, and distributed tracing.
• Define SLOs for latency, availability, and error rates and manage platform capacity.
• Lead incident response, resolve complex production issues, and run blameless post-mortems.
• Partner with product engineering teams to reduce manual toil and improve the path to production.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience operating production systems with an SRE mindset, including SLOs, error budgets, toil reduction, and blameless post-mortems.
• Strong knowledge of modern cloud architectures with GCP or AWS, including networking, IAM, and managed services.
• Deep expertise with Docker and Kubernetes at scale, including cluster design, networking, storage, and security.
• Proficiency in TypeScript, Go, Python, or Rust, with experience writing well-tested automation.
• Experience owning mission-critical operational tooling such as centralized logging or APM.
• Ability to communicate technical ideas and influence how engineers build and operate services.

Culture & Benefits

• Equity in an early-stage technology company.
• 25 days of holiday plus local public holidays.
• Apple hardware.
• Private medical insurance through AXA.
• Pension contributions through Hargreaves Lansdown.
• Enhanced family leave and team off-sites.

Hiring process

• Application includes resume, contact information, current location, right-to-work status, preferred working location, and technical background.
• Application questions cover primary development language and experience in SaaS or product-based companies.