Senior Platform Engineer (Go) - Build Scalable SaaS Platforms

Devopsroles; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Anaplan in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to craft the next generation of our platform. You will design and build scalable, observable systems for hybrid cloud, with hands-on coding in Java, Rust, and Go.

You will extend the Kubernetes API, write operators, optimize storage, and implement OpenTelemetry-based observability. The role demands deep SaaS experience, distributed systems know-how, and a collaborative, inclusive approach.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating production SaaS at scale.
• Experience with high-scale SaaS architectures.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native platforms and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Engineer platforms as products, not just infrastructure.
• Design for observability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Develop and extend Kubernetes-based systems to support internal teams.

Skills

Java

Rust

Go

Kubernetes

SaaS

Distributed systems

OpenTelemetry

Tools

Kubebuilder

Operator SDK

Prometheus

Grafana

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Rancher RKE

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Anaplan in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to craft the next generation of our platform. You will design and build scalable, observable systems for hybrid cloud, with hands-on coding in Java, Rust, and Go.

You will extend the Kubernetes API, write operators, optimize storage, and implement OpenTelemetry-based observability. The role demands deep SaaS experience, distributed systems know-how, and a collaborative, inclusive approach.