Staff Platform Engineer

Accountabilities

• • Own and scale the cloud infrastructure supporting the platform, including compute, networking, and core data-layer services.
  • Lead the development of Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) capabilities, including provisioning, upgrades, observability, and scalable customer-cloud deployments.
  • Operationalize and productize Infrastructure as Code and GitOps foundations to enable a small engineering team to ship quickly and reliably.
  • Establish reliability as a core product capability by defining meaningful Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and building trusted incident management processes.
  • Own and scale critical data infrastructure, including PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, and ClickHouse.
  • Drive infrastructure-level security and compliance initiatives covering areas such as SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, penetration testing, and enterprise security reviews.
  • Make architectural and infrastructure decisions that balance scalability, reliability, security, performance, and development velocity.
  • Partner with engineering and customer-facing teams to understand operational challenges and turn customer needs into practical platform improvements.
  • Contribute to the technical roadmap and broader company strategy through strong ownership of key infrastructure decisions.
  • Support the engineering organization during incidents, help unblock complex technical issues, and promote pragmatic operational practices.

  Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or related roles, with a strong track record of operating high-traffic production systems.
  • Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production, combined with strong judgment around when Kubernetes is appropriate and when alternative approaches are better.
  • Proven experience operating software in environments outside your direct control, such as BYOC, single-tenant, on-premises, or air-gapped environments.
  • Strong AWS expertise, with familiarity with GCP and Azure considered an advantage.
  • Advanced experience with Terraform, including reusable modules, secure state management, and multi-account cloud architectures.
  • Strong database expertise, particularly with PostgreSQL, including performance optimization, migrations under load, replication, and operational reliability.
  • Practical experience with security and compliance programs such as SOC 2, ISO audits, penetration testing, and enterprise security reviews.
  • Strong understanding of infrastructure security, observability, incident response, deployment automation, and production operations.
  • Familiarity with TypeScript and Node.js and the ability to understand application-level concerns from a platform perspective.
  • Product mindset and developer empathy, with the ability to understand customer problems and build effective infrastructure solutions.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Proactive, pragmatic, and low-ego approach to collaboration, including willingness to step in during incidents and help teammates.
  • High degree of autonomy, ownership, and adaptability in a fast-moving startup environment.
  • Comfortable working effectively in a remote-first, distributed team.
  • Based in Europe, with the role specifically listed for candidates in the Netherlands.

  Benefits

  • Competitive Staff-level compensation of $140,000–$220,000, adjusted according to location.
  • Equity participation, providing an opportunity to share in the long-term value created by your work.
  • Remote-first working environment across eligible locations in Europe, North America, and LATAM.
  • Significant autonomy and ownership over infrastructure architecture, platform strategy, and technical priorities.
  • Opportunity to build foundational infrastructure for a rapidly growing developer-focused platform.
  • Direct influence on product roadmap, engineering standards, and company strategy.
  • Collaboration with a highly autonomous engineering team in a fast-paced startup environment.
  • Opportunity to work on challenging infrastructure problems involving Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, BYOC, databases, reliability, security, and compliance.