Position:
Platform Engineer
Company:
Bloom & Wild
Location:
UK, Netherlands, or Remote (Europe)
Employment type:
Full-time
Work Arrangement:
Remote
Short Summary:
As a Platform Engineer, you’ll help our engineering teams ship code faster, safely, and on reliable infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
- Internal Tooling: Create feature flags, canary rollouts, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Core Infrastructure: Manage and optimise AWS, GitHub, Datadog, and Cloudflare.
- Automation: Eliminate repetitive manual tasks for engineering teams, utilising AI tools where you can.
- Production Support: Guide squads on managing their own apps using metrics, logs, and SLOs.
Requirement:
- AWS & Terraform: Hands-on experience (specifically ECS Fargate, RDS, Lambda, or EventBridge).
- CI/CD & Observability: Strong understanding of deployment pipelines and system monitoring.
- Modern Tools: Interest in using AI tools in daily software engineering.
- Codebases: Comfortable working with application code in Ruby or Python and navigating ambiguous problems.
Benefits:
- Flexibility: Core hours (10–4), hybrid or remote working, plus up to 45 days per year to work abroad.
- Time Off: 25 days holiday + birthday + flexible bank holidays (option to buy 5 extra days).
- Growth & Support: Health cash plan, free therapy (Open Up), equity options, learning budget, and generous product discounts.