Senior Developer Experience Platform Engineer

Overview

In this role you will help build and evolve a new Developer Experience team, focusing on reliable, scalable, self-service platform tooling on AWS. You’ll shape the container platform and observability stack to reduce toil and speed up product delivery. You work with cross-functional teams to improve reliability across environments and mentor others. This is a growth-focused position in a fast-moving company that values pragmatic, secure platform design and continuous learning.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve AWS environments and shared platform infrastructure for reliability and ease of use
• Design and build self-service tooling for engineering to deploy and operate services
• Automate common workflows and standardize infrastructure using IaC and platform abstractions
• Define platform-level monitoring and alerting standards with meaningful signals
• Enable product teams to use shared metrics to improve service reliability
• Own and evolve continuous delivery and release capabilities for safe, rapid deployments
• Stay current with best practices in hosting, CD, and developer experience
• Upskill and mentor other engineers in the team
• Operate independently after onboarding and share lessons from real-world experience
• Contribute to and evolve secure, standardised platform capabilities

Key requirements

• Proven track record of owning and operating web platforms in production at scale
• Strong experience with AWS in a production environment
• Experience defining metrics, monitoring, and alerting for web platforms
• Experience with platform-level security controls and observability
• Experience designing and operating CD systems with zero-downtime deployments
• Experience incident response in on-call environments and post-incident improvements
• Comfort with command-line tools
• Proficient in at least one programming language used for automation/tools
• Enjoy solving cross-cutting problems with cross-functional teams
• Comfortable in a fast-moving environment with evolving priorities
• Enjoy mentoring within the team and wider engineering org
• On-call rotation after onboarding

• collaboration
• mentoring
• problem solving
• AWS in production
• observability and monitoring
• infrastructure-as-code

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