Platform Engineer III

Title: Platform Engineer III 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 III 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 senior, hands-on individual contributor role. You will design and deliver significant parts of the platform, solve ambiguous problems that span systems and teams, and set the patterns and standards the team works from. You will guide design decisions, lead technical discussions, review code, and mentor other engineers. We run a lean, high-trust operation, so we need someone who can self-direct, 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: 384,000 - 528,000 RON/year
• Location: Hybrid (Bucharest, RO)
• Schedule: Full-time; 2 days in the office
• Reporting to: Andrew Jerman, Platform Engineer Manager

Primary Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain the application platform, including self-service tools, reusable patterns, and golden paths that let developers focus on building features.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows for complex systems, improving their speed, reliability, and observability across teams.
• Operate and advance our container and Kubernetes platforms, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and developer experience.
• Design and optimize infrastructure as code across Azure, AWS, and OCI to meet reliability, performance, and budget goals; Terraform strongly preferred.
• Lead cross-team efforts to standardize cloud patterns and resolve complex issues in networking, identity, and service integration.
• Define observability strategy across the platform using the Elastic Stack, improving monitoring coverage and signal quality for logging, metrics, dashboards, and alerting.
• Design automation that scales across environments and teams, and drive improvements to development and deployment velocity.
• Solve complex, ambiguous problems that span systems or teams, and proactively identify technical risks and improvements before they become incidents.
• Set and evolve the team's standards and reusable patterns, guide design decisions, and raise the technical bar through design and code review.
• Mentor and coach other engineers through code review, pairing, and knowledge sharing.
• Evaluate and recommend fit-for-purpose tooling, balancing developer experience, operational simplicity, security, cost, and maintainability.
• 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.
• Six or more years of professional experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or software engineering supporting production systems.
• Strong, hands-on experience designing and operating production cloud infrastructure, including compute, networking, identity, storage, and monitoring.
• Strong, hands-on experience operating containers and Kubernetes in production.
• Strong experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for complex systems.
• Production experience with infrastructure as code; Terraform strongly preferred.
• Strong working knowledge of observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Solid scripting and automation skills (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• A self-directed learner who picks up new technologies independently, makes pragmatic decisions about technology selection, and is comfortable mentoring peers and shaping team standards.

Key Competencies & Preferred Qualifications

• Systems Thinking: Connects technical work to business priorities and long-term goals, identifies systemic issues, proposes holistic solutions, and helps others see the broader impact of their work.
• Problem Solving: Solves complex, ambiguous problems that span systems or teams, finds root causes, guides others through structured problem-solving, and implements well-reasoned fixes.
• Platform Architecture & Design: Designs platform components that scale across teams and environments, leads discussions of trade-offs, simplifies complexity, and knows when to use containers, orchestration, and 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, audit logging, and change management in mind, and partners with Security and Compliance to enforce standards in a SOC 2-compliant environment.
• Process Management: Breaks workflows down into clear, repeatable processes and organizes people and activities to deliver them efficiently.
• Effective Communication: Leads group conversations on complex problems, goals, and trade-offs, keeps the team focused on actionable next steps, and coaches others in written and verbal communication.
• Technical Leadership & Growth Mindset: Mentors engineers through code review, pairing, and knowledge sharing, influences team direction, and models inclusive collaboration. Brings grit and a growth mindset, and stays steady through ambiguity and change.
• 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.