Most “platform” roles are either infra-heavy or backend-heavy.
This one sits in the middle.
This company is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to work across the systems that keep their platform fast, reliable, and scalable at global scale
It’s broad, technical, and not confined to one layer of the stack.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll move between infrastructure and software depending on what’s needed.
Troubleshooting issues across AWS
Writing Python to support platform systems
Working on integrations and some identity-related systems (SAML/SCIM)
Handling upgrades (Python, Django) and dealing with breaking changes
Improving database performance, rewriting queries, reducing latency
Getting pulled into cross-system problems that don’t belong to one team
This isn’t a “you own one service” role. You’ll work across the platform where the problems are.
Tech environment
Cloud-native, AWS-first setup with a modern stack including Python/Django, ECS, Postgres, Kinesis, Lambda, and Terraform
They ship frequently and operate at real scale, so changes have impact.
So the work is a mix of:
scaling and strengthening existing systems
solving performance issues that only show up at volume
improving reliability before customers feel problems
What they’re looking for
Senior engineer (5+ years building production systems )
Comfortable writing real code (Python helpful, not essential)
Experience working on distributed systems at scale
Someone who can operate without a playbook and make good calls in grey areas
They’re leaning toward infra engineers who can code, rather than backend engineers with light infra exposure.
Team & setup
You’ll be working in a small, senior team that operates across the platform rather than in silos
Remote-first (Northern Ireland/Ireland)
Regular meetups and offsites
High collaboration across engineering
If you like variety, real systems problems, and work that actually impacts how a platform runs day-to-day, this is worth a conversation.
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