Flexport

Senior Software Engineer: Platform SRE

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20 hours ago
Amsterdam, NetherlandsSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate reliable, scalable infrastructure in AWS and other cloud platforms.
  • Contribute to Kubernetes, Helm charts, Argo deployment systems, and deployment guardrails.
  • Improve observability using OpenMetrics and Datadog.
  • Develop and maintain Terraform Infrastructure-as-Code and reusable infrastructure patterns.
  • Support CI/CD pipelines, build tooling, and artifact repositories using tools including BuildKit, GitHub Actions, Gradle, Bazel, npm, pnpm, Bun, Go, Cargo, Artifactory, ECR, and GitHub.
  • Improve incident response tooling and partner with product teams on changes affecting the engineering organization.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of software engineering, site reliability engineering, or infrastructure engineering experience with substantial production infrastructure work.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS and solid knowledge of cloud infrastructure.
  • Strong Infrastructure-as-Code skills, preferably with Terraform.
  • Ability to build automation and production tooling in a general-purpose programming language.
  • Experience participating in incident response and blameless post-mortems or COE processes.
  • Knowledge of infrastructure security, IAM, networking, and change management.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills for design and incident documentation.
  • Preferred experience operating AWS at scale across multiple accounts, regions, and availability zones.
  • Preferred experience with GitOps, Argo CD, OIDC, disaster recovery, business continuity, resilience testing, and cloud cost efficiency.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement with three office days per week.
  • Daily catered lunches, breakfast, snacks, and soft drinks.
  • Home-office commuting costs covered for employees living outside Amsterdam.
  • 25 vacation days for full-time employees.
  • Employer-paid collective health insurance with basic and additional packages.
  • Defined pension contribution scheme.
  • Equity program and employee shareholding opportunity.
  • Employee Assistance Program through Aetna Resources for Living.
  • Parental leave benefits.

Tech Stack

Argo CDAWSBazelBuildkiteDatadogGitHub ActionsGoGradleHelmKubernetesnpmTerraform

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
Flexport

About Flexport

1,001-5,000 employees

Flexport builds a cloud-based platform for freight forwarding and customs brokerage, combining ocean, air, and truck booking with shipment tracking and analytics for importers and exporters. It earns fees for logistics services and provides supply chain visibility software that integrates with warehousing and trade compliance workflows. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company operates globally across major trade lanes.

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