Platform Engineer II

Title: Platform Engineer II Location: Bucharest, RO

Join the Market Leader in Electric Power Data and Analytics Solutions

The electrical grid is the largest and most complicated machine ever built. Yes Energy’s industry-leading electric power trading analytics software provides real-time visibility into the massive amount of data generated by the North American electrical grid daily. Our unique and innovative view of the data informs real-time trading decisions and mid-to-long-term investment decisions that keep utility prices low, support the energy transition, and keep the grid running. It’s both challenging work and work with a purpose.

Be a part of our successful, growing business during international transformation.

Position Summary

We are hiring a Platform Engineer II to help build and operate the core platform that powers software delivery across Yes Energy. This role sits within the Platform Team, part of the Product Technology Services (PTS) group, and is focused on the foundation our development and operations teams depend on: application platform support, CI/CD pipelines, containers and Kubernetes, observability, and infrastructure as code that is repeatable, safe, and secure.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role. You will work independently on well-scoped platform projects, troubleshoot and resolve production issues across systems and services, and contribute improvements to shared platform components. You will take part in design and code review, follow and help refine the team's patterns and standards, and informally support more junior engineers. We run a lean, high-trust operation, so we need someone who can manage their own work, learn new technologies quickly, and exercise sound judgment about which technologies are beneficial, not just which are new. Success in this role means helping deliver a resilient, scalable platform that empowers developers and operators, accelerates delivery, and holds a high standard for stability, security, and observability.

Position Details

• Salary Range: 360,000 - 456,000 RON
• Location: Hybrid (Bucharest, RO)
• Schedule: Full-time; 2 days in the office
• Reporting to: Andrew Jerman, Platform Engineer Manager

Primary Responsibilities

• Build and maintain parts of the application platform, including self-service tools, reusable patterns, and golden paths that let developers focus on building features.
• Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows, automating build, test, and deploy steps to make delivery faster, safer, and more repeatable.
• Operate Kubernetes and container platforms, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and developer experience.
• Provision and manage cloud infrastructure as code, with Terraform strongly preferred, following security and cost best practices for networking, IAM, storage, and compute.
• Implement and improve observability for the services the team owns using the Elastic Stack: logging, metrics, dashboards, and alerting that support incident response and performance tuning.
• Work across Azure, AWS, and OCI, applying cloud-native patterns for compute, networking, identity, and cost-aware operations.
• Build and maintain team-level automation and scripts that reduce manual steps and prevent errors.
• Troubleshoot production issues, identify root causes, and implement well-reasoned fixes.
• Take part in design and code review, follow the team's standards and reusable patterns, and contribute improvements to them.
• Support and informally mentor junior engineers through pairing and knowledge sharing.
• Partner with other PTS teams to keep platform capabilities reliable, secure, and well integrated.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent practical experience.
• Three or more years of professional experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or software engineering supporting production systems.
• Hands-on experience provisioning and operating production cloud infrastructure, including compute, networking, identity, storage, and monitoring.
• Hands-on experience with containers and Kubernetes in production.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Production experience with infrastructure as code; Terraform strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Solid scripting and automation skills (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Able to work independently on well-scoped projects, pick up new technologies, and communicate clearly with engineers and stakeholders.

Key Competencies & Preferred Qualifications

• Systems Thinking: Considers scalability, reliability, and maintainability when designing solutions, and communicates how decisions affect other teams and parts of the system.
• Problem Solving: Independently troubleshoots and resolves common problems across systems and services, using debugging tools and analytical thinking to find root causes.
• Platform Architecture & Design: Applies architectural patterns to build reliable, maintainable infrastructure, and understands when to use containers, orchestration, or automation based on context.
• Pragmatic Technology Selection: Chooses technologies based on long-term value, maintainability, and fit, not novelty, keeping the team's skill set consolidated while staying open to better ideas.
• Security & Compliance: Builds with access controls, data protection, and governance in mind, partnering with Security and Compliance to enforce standards in a SOC 2-compliant environment.
• Process Management: Breaks workflows down into repeatable steps and can organize people and activities to get work done efficiently.
• Effective Communication: Independently presents complex problems, goals, and ideas in written and verbal form so that people unfamiliar with the project can follow them.
• Technical Followership & Growth Mindset: Contributes independently to team projects, models good engineering practices, and begins mentoring junior engineers. Brings grit and a growth mindset to the team.
• AI/ML Support (Preferred): Exposure to supporting AI/ML or data science workloads, such as ML pipelines or the infrastructure behind them, is a plus.
• Energy Industry Knowledge (Preferred): Experience with power markets or grid infrastructure is beneficial, though not required.

At Yes Energy, we value connecting directly with candidates. We kindly ask that third-party recruiters and agencies not submit resumes, as we are not open to external recruiting partnerships.

ABOUT YES ENERGY

Overview

Yes Energy delivers real-time market data and electric power trading decision solutions.  Over 1,000 market participants use Yes Energy solutions daily.  The business is a leader in all aspects of information content collection and management, developing and delivering data and market analytics solutions. Since its inception in 2008, Yes Energy has become a trusted and respected supplier of innovative and reliable solutions focused on the needs of power market analysts, traders, and trade managers.  Yes Energy has a team of 400 amazing professionals in Boulder, CO (HQ); Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Glendora, CA; Richmond, VA; London, United Kingdom; Auckland, New Zealand; and Bucharest, Romania.

Culture

Yes Energy has been named one of the Best Places to Work in Colorado, and we have the culture to prove it. At Yes Energy, we care about saying “Yes” to customers. We like to listen, learn, and develop our solutions in line with their needs. We think about customers as business partners, and when we help them be more successful … we are more successful, too.

Around the office, our culture is driven by some pretty fundamental values that we’re proud of:

• We love innovation and solving tough challenges;
• We are “high standards people” who combine passion and pride with hard work and rewards of all kinds-- in an ethic that is consistent across the company.
• We’re team-focused with a flat hierarchy-- we work in small teams on well-defined projects that directly impact the success of the business;
• We play to the strengths and experience of each person while each of us also works along a continuum of roles adjacent to our focus area.  This presents the challenge of maintaining a broad set of skills as well as an opportunity to learn and contribute in many ways.
• We are constantly growing. Professional development happens every day and every year.

Compensation and Benefits

We offer highly competitive salaries and real bonuses that are achievable and that you can impact. Our benefits package includes [region-specific benefits — e.g., private medical insurance, wellness/gym benefits], flexible vacation, and flexible work schedules. Yes Energy encourages and funds investment in both formal and informal professional development.

Yes Energy provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or any other protected status. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, compensation, and training.