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Senior Platform Engineer (AWS)

GotPhoto · Berlin, Germany

Quick applyfull-timeabout 1 month ago

About The Role

Join our team as a Senior Platform Engineer (AWS) and work at the intersection of Platform Engineering, SRE, Developer Experience, and AI Enablement. You will design, build, and operate a cloud-native platform that supports our engineering organization, improve developer experience, drive reliability and observability, enable AI-native engineering, champion security and platform excellence, and lead through influence. Enjoy unlimited paid holiday and sick leave, remote work flexibility, and a range of other benefits.

  • Design, build, and operate the cloud-native platform that supports the engineering organization, creating reusable platform services and infrastructure standards.
  • Reduce friction across the software development lifecycle by building and improving CI/CD pipelines, internal tooling, automation, and developer workflows.
  • Improve the reliability and performance of systems by defining and maintaining SLAs, SLOs, and observability standards, and supporting incident response and root-cause analysis.
  • Experience building and operating production systems in AWS
  • Strong Infrastructure-as-Code and automation background
  • 5+ years in Platform Engineering, SRE, Developer Experience, or a similar field
  • Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol)
  • Collaborative Partner: You enjoy working across teams, building alignment, and enabling others to succeed
  • Experience building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs)
  • Cloud & Platform Technologies: You are experienced with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, and modern cloud-native infrastructure patterns
  • Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds may refrain from applying for positions if they feel they don't meet all qualifications. We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we're excited to discover how your distinctive experience can enhance our team!
  • Humble Expert: You bring expertise, curiosity, and a willingness to learn from others
  • Developer Enablement: You enjoy building tools and platforms that help other engineers be more productive
  • Incremental Builder: You prefer iterative improvements, automation, and sustainable scaling over big-bang solutions
  • Platform-as-a-Product Mindset: You think of internal platforms as products and care deeply about the developer experience
  • Architecture & Systems Thinking: You understand distributed systems, event-driven architectures, authentication and authorization models, infrastructure automation, and modern deployment strategies
  • Observability & Reliability: You know how to design systems that are observable, measurable, and resilient using tools such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana
  • Experience in high-growth SaaS environments
  • Experience supporting AI/ML workloads in production
  • Experience with AI-assisted software development

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