Platform Software Engineer - Self-Service Infra & APIs

G-Research; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Discretionary annual bonus

30 days leave

Pension with company contributions

Healthcare and life assurance

Cycle-to-work

Monthly company events

Lunch provided

Relocation support

Job summary

G-Research, headquartered in London, seeks a Platform Software Engineer to build and operate storage-related APIs and services. You will join an infrastructure-focused team, turning manual processes into self-service products while ensuring safe, auditable changes and strong reliability.

You’ll design scalable systems, contribute to incident response, and collaborate with security, research infra and developer platform teams to accelerate discovery.

Qualifications

• Strong Python, with practical Go and TypeScript software engineering skills.
• Experience designing, testing and operating APIs and backend services.
• Strong use of coding agents in day-to-day delivery, with clear task boundaries, careful review and tests controlling the output.

Responsibilities

• Building and operating services and APIs in Python, Go and TypeScript.
• Automating capacity, tenant, quota, access and data lifecycle workflows.
• Building self-service requests with explicit policy checks and exception paths.
• Modelling infrastructure state and making changes idempotent, attributable and auditable.
• Defining stable contracts between storage platform and developer platform services.
• Building tests, fixtures and observability that make failures safe to diagnose.
• Working with users and partner teams to turn operational problems into bounded engineering work.
• Participating in incident response and the out-of-hours on-call rotation.

Skills

Python

Go

TypeScript

API design

Backend services

CI/CD

Observability

Linux troubleshooting

Security

Incident response

Job description

G-Research, headquartered in London, seeks a Platform Software Engineer to build and operate storage-related APIs and services. You will join an infrastructure-focused team, turning manual processes into self-service products while ensuring safe, auditable changes and strong reliability.

You’ll design scalable systems, contribute to incident response, and collaborate with security, research infra and developer platform teams to accelerate discovery.