Platform Core Lead: Terraform, AWS & Kubernetes

Pliant; España; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible remote work

Competitive compensation

Pliant Card with monthly product trial

Remote-first culture

Professional growth opportunities

Job summary

Pliant is building a scalable corporate payment infrastructure. The Platform Core team is the internal platform that other engineering teams rely on, with four engineers currently running Terraform, multi-account AWS, IAM, and networking foundations.

You will own the roadmap, guide the migration to Kubernetes, and partner with Security to bake in access controls and compliance from the start, while growing the team and coordinating with future SRE efforts.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years in software or infrastructure engineering, including at least 3 years managing engineers directly.
• Hands-on depth with Terraform, multi-account AWS, and container/serverless compute in production at scale.
• Experience running infrastructure as an internal platform with high incident/change-management standards.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap for Platform Core's Terraform infrastructure, multi-account AWS setup, and IAM/networking foundations.
• Run Platform Core as an internal product: ensure guardrails and tagging policies help other teams.
• Collaborate with Security Engineering to bake access controls and compliance into the platform from day one.
• Steer the ECS/Fargate to Kubernetes migration to completion.
• Manage and grow the team through 1:1s, hiring, and performance development.
• Coordinate with future SRE and other platform functions as the team scales.

Skills

Terraform

Multi-account AWS

Container or serverless compute

Observability (Datadog)

AI-assisted development tools

Clear communication

Hiring & mentorship

Tools

Spacelift

Kubernetes

Datadog

AWS

Job description

Pliant is building a scalable corporate payment infrastructure. The Platform Core team is the internal platform that other engineering teams rely on, with four engineers currently running Terraform, multi-account AWS, IAM, and networking foundations.

You will own the roadmap, guide the migration to Kubernetes, and partner with Security to bake in access controls and compliance from the start, while growing the team and coordinating with future SRE efforts.