27 days ago
Amsterdam, NetherlandsStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate reliable and scalable infrastructure in AWS and other cloud platforms.
- Evolve Kubernetes, Helm charts, Argo deployment systems, and deployment guardrails.
- Improve the Openmetrics and Datadog observability stack.
- Set standards for Terraform infrastructure-as-code codebases.
- Create and support CI/CD pipelines, build tooling, and artifact repositories using the listed technologies.
- Improve incident response tooling and lead cross-organizational infrastructure changes.
- Lead incident response, blameless post-mortems or COE processes, and follow-up execution.
- Design infrastructure that is resilient, observable, efficient, secure, and easier to operate.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering, site reliability engineering, or infrastructure engineering experience, with significant production infrastructure experience.
- Deep cloud infrastructure knowledge and hands-on AWS experience.
- Strong infrastructure-as-code skills, preferably with Terraform, and experience creating safe, reusable infrastructure patterns.
- Strong software engineering skills and the ability to build automation and production tooling in a general-purpose programming language.
- Experience leading incident response and conducting blameless post-mortems or COE processes.
- Sound judgment around security, IAM, networking, and change management.
- Ability to work independently, identify high-leverage problems, communicate clearly, and align stakeholders across teams.
- Preferred experience operating AWS at scale across multiple accounts, regions, and availability zones.
- Preferred experience with GitOps, Argo CD, IAM at scale including OIDC, disaster recovery and resilience programs, and cloud cost efficiency.
Benefits
- Office-based work three days per week.
- Catered daily lunches, breakfast, snacks, and soft drinks.
- 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 for team members.
- Employee Assistance Program through Aetna Resources for Living.
- Parental leave for mothers and partners.
Tech Stack
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About Flexport
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.