Staff Engineer

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Engineer, Platform & Infrastructure based in United Kingdom.

• Own and scale the cloud infrastructure supporting the platform, including compute, networking, and core data-layer services.
• Lead the development and productization of Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) and private-cloud deployments, including provisioning, upgrades, and observability.
• Build and improve Infrastructure as Code and GitOps foundations that allow a small engineering team to deliver quickly and reliably.
• Establish reliability as a core platform capability through meaningful Service Level Objectives (SLOs), monitoring, and trusted incident-management practices.
• Lead the evolution of critical data infrastructure, including PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, and ClickHouse as usage scales.
• Drive infrastructure-related security and compliance initiatives, including SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, penetration testing, and enterprise security reviews.
• Make architectural decisions that balance scalability, reliability, security, performance, maintainability, and delivery speed.
• Work with customer-facing and engineering teams to understand infrastructure challenges and turn customer requirements into scalable platform capabilities.
• Contribute to technical roadmaps and broader company strategy through ownership of major infrastructure and platform decisions.
• Participate in incident response, help unblock complex technical problems, and raise the engineering standard across the team.

• 10+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or related disciplines, with demonstrated experience operating high-traffic production systems.
• Deep hands-on Kubernetes experience in production, together with strong judgment about when Kubernetes is and is not the appropriate solution.
• Experience operating software in environments outside your direct control, such as BYOC, single-tenant, on-premises, or air-gapped environments.
• Strong AWS expertise; experience with GCP and Azure is an advantage.
• Advanced proficiency with Terraform, including reusable modules, secure state management, and multi-account cloud architectures.
• Strong database expertise, particularly PostgreSQL, including performance optimization, migrations under load, replication, and operational reliability.
• Practical experience with compliance and security 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 requirements from a platform perspective.
• Strong product mindset and developer empathy, with the ability to translate customer problems into effective technical solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate across technical and business functions.
• Proactive, pragmatic, positive, and low-ego approach to teamwork, including a willingness to participate in incidents and help unblock colleagues.
• High degree of autonomy, ownership, and adaptability in a fast-moving startup environment.
• Comfortable working effectively within a remote-first, distributed organization.
• Based in Europe, with the role specifically listed for candidates in the Netherlands.

• 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 work environment across eligible locations in Europe, North America, and LATAM.
• Significant autonomy over infrastructure architecture, platform strategy, and technical priorities.
• Opportunity to build foundational infrastructure for a rapidly growing developer-focused platform.
• Direct influence on technical roadmaps, engineering standards, and broader company strategy.
• Opportunity to work on complex infrastructure challenges involving Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, BYOC, databases, security, reliability, and compliance.
• Collaboration with a small, highly autonomous engineering team in a fast-paced startup environment.