Senior Platform Engineer - AI-Enabled DevTools & Guardrails

ClearRoute; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Home office budget

Profit sharing

Private healthcare

Udemy access

Learning budget

Career growth

Employee assistance program

Job summary

ClearRoute is building an AI-enabled delivery platform on AWS to modernise the path to production. We seek hands-on software engineers who can design and implement the controls, tooling and practices for safe AI-assisted development in an enterprise environment.

The role spans cloud, security, OS, desktop engineering, CI/CD and tooling, with emphasis on governance, telemetry and operator-friendly guardrails across local and CI/CD environments.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on background as a software engineer.
• Broad technical understanding across developer tooling, cloud platforms, operating systems, security controls, observability, telemetry, and CI/CD.
• Experience with developer workflows and engineering ways of working, not just end-user delivery.

Responsibilities

• Investigate safe patterns for enterprise use of agentic development tools such as Claude Code and GitHub Copilot.
• Design and implement guardrails, controls, and engineering patterns for AI-assisted development.
• Contribute to endpoint and platform observability, telemetry, and policy enforcement.
• Help define how controls should work across local development environments and CI/CD pipelines.
• Explore changes to the development environment, including more containerised or backend offloaded approaches.
• Run research, proof-of-concept work, and technical experimentation in a fast-moving area.
• Collaborate across engineering, platform, security, and enterprise teams to turn concepts into operating solutions.
• Shape scalable practices for governance, rollout, and developer adoption.

Skills

Hands-on software engineer

Cloud platforms

CI/CD tooling

Observability/Telemetry

Developer workflows

Job description

ClearRoute is building an AI-enabled delivery platform on AWS to modernise the path to production. We seek hands-on software engineers who can design and implement the controls, tooling and practices for safe AI-assisted development in an enterprise environment.

The role spans cloud, security, OS, desktop engineering, CI/CD and tooling, with emphasis on governance, telemetry and operator-friendly guardrails across local and CI/CD environments.