Senior Platform Engineer - Data

c/side; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

About c/side:

c/side is laser focussed on solving web security, starting with browser side injections. Covering previously unmonitored attack surfaces in developer and user friendly ways.

The team of c/side are a diverse mix of highly capable subject matter experts. We’re kind but we mean business.

Since January 2024, c/side has raised $7.7 million in pre-seed funding from Uncork Ventures, Mantis Ventures, Scribble Ventures, Roar VC, Dan Scheinman, Jason Warner, Kathy Korevec and many more. A team of handpicked, high value add investors invested in helping our company and team grow.

About the role:

We are looking for a dedicated engineer to focus on our infrastructure and uptime. You will collaborate closely with our existing platform engineer, front-end, back-end and operations team. Experience in scaling databases like ClickHouse and performance engineering is essential.

What you will do:

• Manage our cloud infrastructure, build and improve our data infrastructure globally, manage capacity and stay on top of performance.
• Have a special focus on ensuring our databases run smoothly and securely.
• Build our infrastructure to be ultra reliable and failure resistant.
• Ensure our architecture meets and exceeds industry compliance standards.
• C/side is a Kubernetes shop; you’ll be in charge of building out our clusters around the world.
• Write GitHub actions for CI, ArgoCD for Kubernetes, and Opentofu for cloud resources.
• Build and maintain our observability solution, ensuring alerts are kept relevant and up to date.
• Manage AWS (and similar cloud provider) security.

About you:

• Strong proficiency working with databases, optimizing overall performance and queries.
• Strong proficiency and deep understanding of secure implementations on cloud providers like AWS, Azure, GCP.
• Ability to configure Linux nodes for optimal performance at scale.
• Experience using services like AWS CDK, EKS, ASG and more.
• A passion for Kubernetes and knowledge on how to make things scale.
• Experience in infrastructure as code (IaC) and writing code to automate changes.
• Ability to optimize costs and utilize modern infrastructure technologies.
• Over 4 years of experience owning, managing and securing distributed systems on cloud providers.
• High energy and eagerness to work in a dynamic startup environment, building world-changing technology.
• Bonus: Interest in playing around with AI models.

At c/side:

• We’re constantly learning and developing better; we grow together.
• We do not ship half projects, sell snake oil, or cut corners - we respect our team, customers, and community by building good products.
• We value transparency and integrity above all.

C/side offers:

• Quarterly offsite.
• Take what you need PTO policy.
• Stock options.
• Market rate salary.
• Fully remote.

We’re building a world-class security company, and we simply want the best people for the job. We do not select or discriminate based on formal educational background, age, skin tone, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, marital status, veteran status… we’re welcoming all and celebrate equal opportunities.