Senior Platform Engineer

Henry Schein One group; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking tech company dedicated to redefining dental care through innovative software solutions. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in enhancing our platform's reliability, security, and performance. This position offers a unique opportunity to work in an environment that values creativity and autonomy while driving impactful changes in our products. You'll collaborate with talented teams, implement cutting-edge practices, and contribute to a culture that celebrates diversity and inclusivity. If you're passionate about engineering excellence and eager to make a difference, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience as a software engineer with a focus on coding.
• Proven track record of working with AWS services and IAC practices.

Responsibilities

• Implement best practices for CI/CD and observability to support delivery.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure seamless application deployment.

Skills

C#

Ruby

TypeScript

DevOps

Continuous Delivery

Problem Solving

Monitoring and Observability

Automation

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

AWS CDK

New Relic

GitHub Actions

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

About Us

At Henry Schein One UK, we are a tech company with a mission to redefine dental care, creating a future where personalised, AI-driven treatment and intelligent practice management come together to enhance patient care and build a thriving dental practice.

We’re innovators, relentless in our pursuit of customer success and constantly pushing the boundaries of the possible to create world-class SaaS products. We solve real-world problems that affect millions of people around the world and are proud to have a positive impact on society.

Culture matters to us. Celebrated as one of the ‘Sunday Times UK's Best Places to Work’ companies, our culture as an inclusive and forward-thinking company means we are committed to creating an environment that values diversity and flexibility and promotes equal opportunities for everyone.

Product Development Culture

We are problem solvers, not ticket takers. We champion creative problem-solving and value autonomy, trust, and impactful outcomes over rigid processes. Delivering improvements rapidly, we engage in iterative 6-week cycles, addressing user needs and enabling technical innovation - balancing technical debt, bugs, and team growth. We are a continuous delivery focused group, shipping changes to production 150+ times per month.

At our core is the customer. Every solution we deliver is crafted with customer success in mind, building relationships that go beyond transactions and ensuring that as team members, we all prioritise customer success in every aspect of our work. We build software that delivers value for our users and resist the urge to over-engineer our solutions. We let our users and the data tell us where we go next.

You can learn more about our engineering culture manifesto here

Our Tech & Tools

• AWS, AWS Serverless, Azure
• AWS CDK for C#, SST
• ECS, Linux, Ansible, Packer
• New Relic, Insight Hub

Product Development Stacks:

• Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Ember.js, JavaScript
• NodeJS, TypeScript, Angular, TailwindCSS
• .NET 7, Blazor WebAssembly
• Puma, Sidekiq
• Postgres, Redis
• GitHub, Azure DevOps, Slite, Slack

How You'll Make An Impact

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer who thrives in a fast-paced, autonomous environment to impact our next level of platform engineering maturity. You'll innovate to keep our products' global platform reliable, secure, and fast. You'll help enhance our system availability, observability, security, and reliability whilst resolving issues before they impact our customers. You'll also play a role in the continued evolution of software delivery tooling and incident management capabilities, along with our "self-service" vision across Engineering.

About You

• You’re a senior engineer who moved from building software products to DevOps
• A self-starter who can self-manage projects under minimal supervision
• Someone who enjoys coaching/mentoring others in a team
• Experience working in scaleups > understands the balance of investment vs value

Inquisitive and Driven
You have a bias to action. You are driven to improve engineering effectiveness and developer experience, removing friction and empowering engineers through innovation and modern practices.

Optimistic and Courageous
You have an entrepreneurial approach, and you collaborate easily with third-party providers, engineering teams, and business stakeholders to ensure you offer the best possible experience.

Self-motivated
You’re passionate about observability, availability, and issue management. You enjoy solving problems and like to challenge yourself by quickly identifying and mitigating an issue before moving on to the next one.

What You'll Do

• Implement best practices for CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and observability that supports our continuous delivery practices.
• Lead initiatives to improve system reliability, performance, and security.
• Writing tooling to support our self-service automation portal to improve visibility for engineers.
• Creating and maintaining innovative, automated solutions, tooling, and alerting frameworks to improve the reliability of our production systems.
• Proactively addressing application, platform, and database performance as we scale to global regions (and supporting our product engineering teams to do the same).
• Collaborate cross-functionally with developers, product teams, and stakeholders to ensure seamless application deployment.
• Building and maintaining developer tools that improve efficiency, reduce friction, and accelerate software delivery.
• Troubleshooting and resolving system issues proactively, always looking for opportunities to optimize and automate.
• Assisting with on-call rotations and processes.
• Creating and maintaining technical documentation, onboarding materials, and training sessions to help engineers quickly adapt to tools and workflows.
• Educating, training, and promoting our culture of ownership to help our engineering teams better understand the production impact of their changes.
• Working closely with internal partners and teams to ensure that we ship software that meets security, SLA, and performance requirements.

What You'll Bring With You

• Senior-level experience as a SW Engineer writing code not just scripts (ideally C#, Ruby, or TypeScript)
• Depth of experience across both development and operations
• A proven track record of working with a breadth of AWS services
• Credible knowledge of IAC practices with AWS CDK (or similar)
• Monitoring and observability experience, New Relic (or similar)
• Experience with automating security compliance
• Knowledge of improving application stability and performance
• Well-versed in containers; AWS ECS (preferred) or Kubernetes / Docker
• Strong experience in automating infrastructure, testing, and deployments using tools like Ansible, Chef, GitHub Actions, etc.
• Desirable
• AWS Solution Architect certification
• Knowledge of large data sets and data warehousing capabilities
• Experience with AI tools and techniques to improve engineering effectiveness

Our Values

Community: Each person is as important as the next > Open communication > Diversity & inclusion
Caring: Corporate citizenship > Shared success
Career: Ethics > Recognise creativity & encourage > People are our greatest asset

Our Hiring Process

We've made our process as simple as possible whilst also allowing you to meet multiple members of the team, giving us valuable viewpoints on your experience. Expect an intro call with our TA team, a hiring manager interview, and a technical interview. We aim to get you through our process in about 10 days.
We look forward to hearing from you!