Platform Engineer

About the opportunity

Spacelift is the infrastructure orchestration platform built for the modern software era, managing the full lifecycle for both traditional IaC and AI-accelerated infrastructure. It integrates with Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Pulumi, and Ansible in a single governed workflow so you deliver secure, compliant infrastructure at scale. Developer self-service, Golden Paths with guardrails, an OPA policy engine, and drift detection accelerate developer velocity while maintaining control. Spacelift Intelligence adds AI-powered provisioning and diagnostics across traditional and AI-driven workflows. Spacelift was founded in 2020 by long-time DevOps practitioner Marcin Wyszynski and successful entrepreneur Pawel Hytry and has raised $82.3M in funding over four rounds from top venture capital firms including Insight Partners, Blossom Capital, Hoxton Ventures, Inovo Venture partners and Five Elms Capital.The roleBuild and own the platform that powers all of Spacelift - from CI/CD to observability to incident responseImprove our code delivery pipeline: reduce friction, tighten feedback loops, eliminate flakinessStrengthen our SLOs and observability posture - give every team better signalsSharpen our on-call experience by improving alert quality, response speed, and postmortem hygieneOptimise platform cost and scaling behaviour across workloads and regionsOwn developer experience internally: from local dev to debugging productionKeep learning about our problem spaceYou build it, you run it - you will also be part of the on-call rotation About YouPassion for building products, love for tech, and interest in the problem space (DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Developer Experience)4+ years of experience in backend or platform engineering, with hands-on experience owning production systemsExperience working with GoYou have built or maintained CI/CD pipelines, observability stacks, or developer-facing toolingYou have been on-call and improved it - not just responded to pages, but fixed root causes and leveled up the processExperience working with an IaC tool - OpenTofu/Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormationYou have excellent communication skillsEager to learn new tools and technologiesStrong product mindset and big-picture thinkingFocused on solving problems, not just completing tasksNice to have:Experience with Claude Code, DatadogPostgreSQL/Aurora optimization experienceHow we workWe move fast. Continuous deployments at least 2 times a day, we make heavy use of feature flags (LaunchDarkly)Ownership over our work and driving key product decisionsWorking closely as a team, transparent communication, caring about our system, ourselves, and customersEverything is an iteration and everything is an experimentCultivate space for small and big innovation from all-engineering hackathons to smaller, ad-hoc experimentsWe use the best dev tools that we can get our hands on Why Spacelift?Innovative Culture: Join a team shaping cloud infrastructure management’s futureGrowth Opportunities: Be a key player in driving Spacelift’s business and AWS partnership to new heightsWork-Life Balance: Flexible work environment, with remote-first options and competitive compensation packagesCollaborative Team: Work with passionate, talented people committed to driving success for our customers and partnersCompetitive salary and equity package: B2B contractHiring Process30' HR intro call30' Team Leader InterviewTake-home exercise90' Technical interview with live coding45' Final Leadership call with our Director of EngineeringOur valuesWe build for CUSTOMERSWe RESPECT each otherWe take OWNERSHIP seriouslyWe succeed through COLLABORATIONWe embrace SPARK & WONDERMore here: https://spacelift.io/careersJoin Us! At Spacelift, you won’t just be working on a technical product - you’ll be part of a team shaping the future of DevOps. Apply to contribute to a platform loved by its users and take your career to the next level!