Senior Platform Software Engineer

**This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Platform Software Engineer based in Switzerland.**

As a Senior Platform Software Engineer, you will take ownership of the cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and production reliability that underpin a growing software platform. You will play a key role in building scalable, resilient, and secure systems that enable teams to deliver product improvements quickly and confidently. Working in a collaborative, seed-stage environment, you will help shape architectural decisions and establish the foundations for long-term technical growth. You will work across AWS infrastructure, CI/CD automation, distributed systems, and PostgreSQL performance optimization. The role offers significant autonomy, hands-on technical challenges, and the opportunity to influence engineering practices from the ground up. You will also explore AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity and streamline engineering workflows. This is an opportunity to make a tangible impact on both platform reliability and the overall product experience.

Accountabilities:

• **Design and manage cloud infrastructure:** Architect, deploy, and operate AWS services across compute, messaging, storage, networking, and observability to support scalable and reliable applications.
• **Develop deployment automation:** Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines that enable safe, efficient, and automated releases from code commit to production.
• **Own database reliability and performance:** Manage production PostgreSQL environments, including configuration, connection pooling, performance tuning, database migrations, and backup and recovery strategies.
• **Strengthen distributed systems:** Investigate complex production issues, identify root causes, and implement robust solutions that address ordering, retries, idempotency, partial failures, and message delivery guarantees.
• **Balance speed and technical quality:** Make pragmatic engineering decisions that support rapid product delivery while maintaining system stability, maintainability, and long-term scalability.
• **Influence technical direction:** Collaborate with product teams and stakeholders to define architectural approaches, prioritize infrastructure improvements, and align technical decisions with business needs.
• **Integrate AI-assisted workflows:** Evaluate and adopt AI-powered development tools where they can improve coding efficiency, testing, build processes, and deployment workflows without compromising engineering quality.

Requirements:

• **Professional experience:** Typically 5–10+ years of relevant software engineering or platform engineering experience, including hands-on ownership of production infrastructure and systems.
• **Cloud infrastructure expertise:** Strong practical knowledge of AWS services and experience designing, deploying, and operating cloud environments in production.
• **Infrastructure as Code:** Proven experience with Terraform or comparable tools for automating and managing infrastructure consistently and reliably.
• **Distributed systems knowledge:** Solid understanding of distributed systems principles, including message ordering, idempotency, retries, at-least-once delivery, and recovery from partial failures.
• **Database engineering:** Demonstrated production experience with PostgreSQL, including connection pooling, schema migrations, query and performance optimization, and backup and restore procedures.
• **Software development familiarity:** Ability to read, understand, and navigate TypeScript and Node.js codebases, with familiarity with NestJS and modern backend application architectures.
• **Reliability and troubleshooting:** Experience operating high-traffic, highly available systems, combined with strong independent debugging, incident investigation, and problem-solving skills.
• **AI development tools:** Comfort using AI coding assistants and integrating AI-enabled tools into engineering workflows while applying sound technical judgment and maintaining high-quality standards.
• **Collaboration and ownership:** Strong communication skills, a proactive and independent working style, and the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, product, and other stakeholder teams.
• **Product mindset:** Genuine curiosity about the product and its users, with an interest in connecting infrastructure decisions to customer outcomes and business objectives.
• **Location eligibility:** Ability to work remotely from within Europe, with a location within three hours of Central European Time. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Benefits:

• **Competitive compensation:** A competitive salary package aligned with experience and technical expertise. A specific salary range has not been disclosed.
• **Equity participation:** Employee stock options offering the opportunity to share in the company's long-term growth.
• **Remote flexibility:** Work remotely from within Europe, provided you are located within three hours of Central European Time.
• **Meaningful technical ownership:** Take responsibility for core infrastructure, deployment systems, and production reliability in a growing software environment.
• **Engineering autonomy:** Influence architectural decisions, improve development practices, and help establish scalable technical foundations.
• **Modern tooling:** Explore AI-assisted development tools and identify practical ways to improve engineering productivity and delivery quality.
• **High-impact environment:** Work closely with engineering and product stakeholders, with the opportunity to make visible contributions to platform performance, reliability, and product delivery.