Senior Platform Engineer

Snigel; United Kingdom; Remote; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Mid-Senior Platform Engineer responsible for maintaining their globally distributed analytics backend. This fully remote position requires extensive backend experience and a strong knowledge of C# and Kubernetes. Join a senior team where you will own a mission-critical system that drives revenue and offers great autonomy.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible schedule

Work-life balance

Autonomy and impact

Qualifications

• 8+ years backend experience required.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerised deployments.
• Ownership mindset capable of driving architectural decisions.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and evolve a globally distributed analytics backend.
• Own and improve C# microservices that process and route data.
• Implement and optimize data retention and ingestion logic.

Skills

C#

Kubernetes

Data retention

Aggregation

Ingestion logic

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenAPI

ClickHouse

Job description

Direct message the job poster from Snigel

Snigel is an advertising technology company that specialises in helping online publishers maximise their ad revenue through programmatic advertising and advanced monetisation solutions.

Founded in 2012, Snigel is headquartered in Dublin and operates with remote teams across Europe, including the UK, Austria, Portugal and Poland,

What is Argus?

Argus is an internal analytics and data pipeline platform used by Snigel to process, store, and analyse large volumes of data in real time and batch modes.

It plays a critical role in supporting our revenue optimisation and data-driven decision-making workflows across the company.

Your Role

You’ll be responsible for:

• Maintaining and evolving aglobally distributed analytics backend
• Owning and improving theC# microservicesthat process, enrich, and route data
• Managing horizontal scaling, performance tuning, and DB sharding
• Implementing and optimisingdata retention,aggregation, andingestion logic
• Collaborating with DevOps and frontend teams to support new data use-cases
• Monitoring system health withPrometheusandGrafana
• Languages: C#
• Other: OpenAPI

What We’re Looking For:

• 8+ years backend experience
• Hands-on experience withKubernetesand containerised deployments
• Ownership mindset — capable of driving architectural decisions

Bonus Points

• Knowledge ofClickHouse

Why Snigel?

• Fully remote (EU/UK time zone preferred)
• A lean and senior team, full of autonomy and impact
• Opportunity toown a mission-critical systemthat drives revenue and insight
• Competitive salary, flexible schedule, and work-life balance
• You'll help shape the future of a platform that our clientstrust for billing and transparency

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet

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