Platform Engineer

Role Overview & Responsibilities

Platform Engineer

Type: Full-time

Location: Remote (Berlin/London/Remote)

Salary: $70k - $120k, Equity: Competitive

We are seeking a talented and enthusiastic Platform Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate should possess a deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud architecture, and DevOps practices. As a Platform Engineer, you will work closely with product development teams to design, build, and maintain highly scalable and reliable systems.

Responsibilities:

We value rapid iteration cycles and provide our engineers with the autonomy to make technical decisions. You will be involved in various exciting projects, including:

• Developing a scalable GPU computing infrastructure
• Creating a real-time orchestration engine for multi-tenant cloud infrastructure
• Implementing solutions to synchronize local and remote environments on a user's laptop by hacking containers
• Setting up ephemeral and persistent computing environments on multiple cloud providers
• Building secure, bidirectional, and auth-less data streams between remote and local environments in real-time

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain a highly scalable and reliable platform.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement new features and functionalities.
• Monitor and optimize system performance to ensure high availability and scalability.
• Identify and resolve issues related to system performance and reliability.
• Develop and maintain system documentation and runbooks.
• Continuously improve platform infrastructure and processes.

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of relevant professional experience
• 2+ years of experience building orchestration infrastructure (Terraform, Kubernetes).
• 2+ years of experience with at least one of the major cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• 2+ years of experience working with Golang and Typescript (Rust is a plus).
• 2+ years of experience building distributed and scalable systems ( Temporal, Kafka)
• 2+ years of experience in securing data streaming and remote execution (e.g. WebSockets, gRPC)
• Strong background in writing modular/functional code (e.g. Onion architecture).
• 2+ years of experience "hacking the cloud." You must know your way around cloud services and architecture or be an expert at figuring it out.
• Background/interest in ML is a big plus

Benefits:

• Flexible Work Policy: You can choose to work on-site or remotely, and we are happy to support your relocation to Berlin or London if needed.
• Stock Options: We offer above-market stock options to every employee.
• Home Office Setup: You will be provided with an M1 MacBook or your preferred workstation to help set up your home office. Alternatively, you can receive $1500 in cash.
• WFH Allowance: We provide a monthly allowance of $150 to cover the expenses of maintaining your battle station while working from home.
• Company Retreat: Once every quarter, we rent a Big House in an exciting location and work from there as a team. All expenses are covered, of course!

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £55,000.00-£95,000.00 per year

Experience:

• Platform Engineer: 4 years (preferred)
• Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure): 2 years (preferred)
• Golang and Typescript (Rust is a plus): 2 years (preferred)
• Scalable systems ( Temporal, Kafka): 2 years (preferred)
• Streaming and remote execution (e.g. WebSockets, gRPC: 2 years (preferred)
• Writing functional code (e.g. Onion architecture): 2 years (preferred)
• Cloud Platforms: 2 years (preferred)
• Machine learning: 1 year (preferred)
• Orchestration infrastructure: 2 years (preferred)

Work Location: Remote