WRITER

Infrastructure engineer (UK)

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13 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
  • Automate infrastructure management and operational tasks using Python or Go.
  • Operate Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, cloud tooling, and internal platform surfaces.
  • Own reliability, performance, efficiency, SLOs, error budgets, and on-call operations for core services.
  • Lead incident response, post-mortems, root-cause analyses, and preventative architecture improvements.
  • Shape multi-year platform investments in observability, cost management, and reliability.
  • Collaborate with product, security, and engineering teams on reliable system design from conception through launch.
  • Use and develop AI-assisted workflows for incident investigation, infrastructure changes, runbooks, tooling, and code review.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience in infrastructure engineering, DevOps, or a similar role operating large-scale, high-availability production systems.
  • Production experience running containerized workloads and real clusters.
  • Experience with Helm and Terraform or Pulumi on at least one major cloud, preferably AWS.
  • Strong proficiency in Python or Go for automation and tooling.
  • Existing daily experience with AI-assisted engineering workflows, including agentic tooling adoption.
  • Experience with monitoring and logging stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK or equivalent.
  • Demonstrated ability to identify systemic reliability weaknesses, make tradeoffs, and solve complex infrastructure problems.
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, ownership, and problem-solving skills.
  • Experience owning at least one infrastructure build end-to-end with measurable outcomes.
  • Preferred: software engineering experience building and shipping non-trivial production services, libraries, or internal frameworks in Python, Go, or a comparable language.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work based out of the London or New York City hubs.
  • Generous paid time off and company holidays.
  • Comprehensive medical and dental insurance.
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents.
  • Fertility and family planning support.
  • Early-detection cancer testing through Galleri.
  • Competitive pension scheme and company contribution.
  • Wellness, learning and development, and annual work-life stipends.
  • Company-wide and team off-sites.
  • Company stock options and competitive compensation.

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501-1,000 employees
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