Senior Platform Engineer, Data Infrastructure — Cloud-Native

Nexthink; Madrid; Hybrid; EUR 65,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Private Health Insurance

Meal vouchers

Relocation package

Unlimited vacation

Job summary

Nexthink in Madrid is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer for Data Infrastructure to own the data backbone across AWS regions, including Kafka, ClickHouse, Aurora, and MongoDB. You will design, build, and automate provisioning and scaling with a focus on resilience and self‑service capabilities.

You will collaborate with Architecture, Product Engineering and Security to improve availability, performance, and observability while bringing new data stores and advanced storage options into the

Qualifications

• Solid cloud infrastructure background and strong software‑engineering habits.
• 5+ years as Software/DevOps/Platform or SRE.
• AWS across multiple regions with IaC and pipelines.
• Kubernetes and EKS on Linux with Docker containers.
• Go and/or Python proficiency.
• Excellent English communication and multi‑tasking skills.
• Experience with distributed/streaming systems (Kafka) and databases (Aurora/ClickHouse/MongoDB).
• Experience building self‑service platforms (Crossplane).
• Familiarity with search/vector stores (OpenSearch) and caching (Redis/ElastiCache).
• Some disaster recovery and cross‑region replication exposure.

Responsibilities

• Design and improve data infrastructure with Architecture, Product Engineering, and Security teams.
• Build tooling and automation to provision and scale the platform with resilience.
• Integrate new data stores (search, vector, in‑memory) to the standard platform.
• Collaborate with product teams to understand needs and shape the platform.
• Plan for disaster days: DR and cross‑region replication with clear RPO/RTO.
• Maintain availability, performance, and observability (Datadog) and handle incidents end‑to‑end.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

OpenTofu

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

GitOps/Flux

Go

Python

Crossplane

OpenSearch

Redis

ElastiCache

Aurora

ClickHouse

MongoDB

SRE

Education

Computer Science degree

Tools

Docker

OpenTofu

Terraform

Crossplane

Datadog

Kafka

MSK

Aurora

ElastiCache

OpenSearch

Redis

Job description

Nexthink in Madrid is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer for Data Infrastructure to own the data backbone across AWS regions, including Kafka, ClickHouse, Aurora, and MongoDB. You will design, build, and automate provisioning and scaling with a focus on resilience and self‑service capabilities.

You will collaborate with Architecture, Product Engineering and Security to improve availability, performance, and observability while bringing new data stores and advanced storage options into the