Platform Software Engineer: Self-Service Storage APIs

gresearch; Greater London; Sur place; GBP 85 000 - 125 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Lunch provided

Barista bar

30 days annual leave

Pension contributions

Healthcare and life assurance

Cycle-to-work scheme

Monthly company events

Résumé du poste

G-Research in London is seeking a Platform Software Engineer for the Storage Engineering team. You will build APIs, workflows and data models to turn infrastructure into self‑service products that scale and support rapid discovery.

You will design, test and operate APIs in Python, Go and TypeScript, automate capacity and data lifecycle workflows, and contribute to incident response while ensuring safe, auditable changes within a collaborative research environment.

Qualifications

• Strong Python, with practical Go and TypeScript software engineering skills.
• Experience designing, testing and operating APIs and backend services.
• Experience building infrastructure automation, workflows or reconciliation systems.
• Understanding of retries, partial failure, concurrency, idempotency and eventual consistency.
• Strong Linux and production troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with CI/CD, observability and safe deployment practices.
• A practical approach to security, permissions, audit and change control.
• A calm, methodical approach to incidents.

Responsabilités

• 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

Connaissances

Python

Go

TypeScript

Outils

CI/CD

Description du poste

G-Research in London is seeking a Platform Software Engineer for the Storage Engineering team. You will build APIs, workflows and data models to turn infrastructure into self‑service products that scale and support rapid discovery.

You will design, test and operate APIs in Python, Go and TypeScript, automate capacity and data lifecycle workflows, and contribute to incident response while ensuring safe, auditable changes within a collaborative research environment.