
Staff Platform Infrastructure Engineer
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead the technical design and architecture of platform services, with a focus on networking, service mesh (Istio), and service-to-service communication.
- Design, develop, and manage Kubernetes Operators in Golang, custom tooling, and our Istio service mesh to automate and enhance platform capabilities.
- Partner with product teams to co-design infrastructure solutions that improve velocity and reliability while efficiently serving our developers.
- Engineer the platform's use of our observability stack (metrics, logs, traces), define SLOs, and implement DevSecOps best practices, including WAF configuration and management.
- Mentor other engineers, champion technical excellence, and drive cloud cost optimization through automation.
- Production experience managing infrastructure on a major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes and service mesh technologies (preferably Istio).
- Strong understanding of cloud networking concepts (VPCs, routing, load balancing, WAFs, network policies).
- Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and operational tooling in Golang.
- Experience supporting stateful applications like GraphDB and / or Kafka.
- Familiarity with cloud security principles (IAM, security groups).
- A bachelor's degree or equivalent working experience.
- Critical thinker who skillfully analyzes complex distributed systems, including intricate network flows.
- A proactive learner, curious about evolving technologies in cloud, container orchestration, and service mesh.
- Open-minded and approach problems from an assumption of positive intent and demonstrate emotional intelligence.
- Able to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences and identify opportunities for simplification and automation.
- Able to work with a high degree of care and independence.
- Within your first month: you will Integrate with the team, understand our architecture, and make your first platform contribution.
- Within your third month: you will be actively shipping platform tooling that delivers measurable value to the engineering organization.
- Within your sixth month: you will become a go-to expert and steward for a key platform component, such as our service mesh, guiding its design and implementation.