Platform Software Engineer: Self-Service Infra & APIs

G-Research; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual discretionary bonus

Lunch provided

30 days annual leave

Pension contributions

Healthcare

Life assurance

Cycle-to-work

Monthly company events

Relocation support

Job summary

G-Research in London HQ is seeking a Platform Software Engineer in the Storage Engineering team to build APIs, workflows and data models that turn infrastructure into self-service products. You’ll design scalable services, automate capacity and data lifecycle tasks, and help ensure safe, auditable state changes.

You’ll operate services, contribute to incident response, and collaborate with security, research infra and developer platform teams.

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

Tools

CI/CD

Observability

Job description

G-Research in London HQ is seeking a Platform Software Engineer in the Storage Engineering team to build APIs, workflows and data models that turn infrastructure into self-service products. You’ll design scalable services, automate capacity and data lifecycle tasks, and help ensure safe, auditable state changes.

You’ll operate services, contribute to incident response, and collaborate with security, research infra and developer platform teams.