Senior Platform Engineer

Eucalyptus; England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital health company in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to contribute to their Trust Team. This role involves managing cloud infrastructure, developing self-service tools, and supporting operational services in a rapidly growing environment. Candidates should have a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience, expertise in cloud platforms like GCP or AWS, and a problem-solving mindset. Excellent communication and collaboration skills are essential, along with a passion for continuous learning.

Benefits

Employee options program

Monthly wellness allowance

Yearly personal development budget

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience as a software or platform engineer.
• Experience designing and building cloud infrastructure on GCP or AWS.
• Experience using infrastructure as code (Terraform).

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain cloud infrastructure for reliability and scalability.
• Develop self-service tooling and automate processes for the engineering team.
• Partner with business and technology teams to understand and meet solution requirements.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure design and management

Containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker)

Infrastructure as code (Terraform)

Micro-service architecture

Security controls implementation

Clear communication skills

Problem-solving orientation

Continuous learning mindset

Tools

GCP

AWS

Job description

Overview

We’re on a mission to make good health last a lifetime. More than 1 billion people live with obesity worldwide, driving preventable chronic conditions. We’re here to build better long-term care.

Euc is the company behind Juniper, one of the world’s largest weight-management programs combining GLP-1 medication with personalised nutrition, movement support, and clinician-led care from prescribers, nurses, health coaches, pharmacists, and dietitians. Our published clinical research shows that our combined clinical and behavioural approach helps patients lose significantly more weight during their treatment with Juniper by four times.

Growth and Impact

• 130% YoY revenue growth and a 90% reduction in cash burn, with $100M+ raised from investors including BOND, NewView, Blackbird and Airtree.
• Supported over 350k patients living with obesity across our 5 markets
• Tailored our offering to thousand of patients in Germany and Japan

Role

About the role (What you\'ll be doing): As a Senior Platform Engineer you will join our Trust Team (IT, Infrastructure and Cybersecurity) at Eucalyptus and contribute to building and maintaining a reliable digital health platform. You will be responsible for developing self-service tooling and automation, managing our cloud infrastructure and providing operational support for our production services as part of a global team.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the technologies that power our engineering team. You\'ll be responsible for cross-cutting technologies that support all engineers in delivering value to our customers.
• Support high-quality product infrastructure. Manage and maintain our cloud infrastructure, with a focus on reliability, scalability, automation, and security.
• Support developer experience. Improve developer workflows and support efficient software development by creating self-service tooling and automations.
• Partner with business and technology teams. Partner with stakeholders across our business to understand solution requirements and participate in solution design and development processes.

About You (Who you are)

As a key member of our Infrastructure team, you will:

• Have 6+ years of experience as a software or platform engineer working in software companies, startups or scale-ups.
• Have experience designing and building cloud infrastructure on GCP or AWS.
• Have experience designing and building containerisation and container orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Have experience using infrastructure as code (Terraform) and building reusable module libraries.
• Be familiar with micro-service architecture and distributed systems.
• Have experience implementing and maintaining security controls for cloud platforms.
• Be a clear and concise communicator. You can easily convey your thoughts and opinions to technical and non-technical stakeholders, articulating effort vs impact tradeoffs.
• Be able to work autonomously as part of a global team while reporting to the Global Infrastructure Lead.
• Have a strong desire to manage a team of up to 3 infrastructure engineers (management experience is nice-to-have but not essential).
• Strong technical analysis and collaboration skills. You thrive on the opportunity to work alongside diverse stakeholders across all areas of the organisation, build relationships and display technical leadership.
• Problem-solving orientation: You approach challenges with creativity and persistence. You\'re comfortable with ambiguity and find solutions when requirements aren\'t fully defined. You can connect day-to-day work to larger objectives.
• Continuous learner: You\'re intellectually curious and humble. You actively seek new perspectives, adapt your thinking based on evidence, and embrace the learning curve of building in diverse health domains.

Nice to have

• Experience designing and building data platforms and machine learning infrastructure on GCP or AWS (BigQuery, Vertex AI, etc)
• Experience building self-service infrastructure request and provisioning workflows to enable deployment of sandbox and innovation projects

Why join Eucalyptus?

• Make real impact, fast - We build in the open together, which helps us learn and iterate more quickly to deliver high-quality outcomes faster than anyone else. Helping impact patients’ lives for the better from the moment you join Euc.
• You’ll be supported to accelerate your career - Regular feedback, bi-annual performance reviews, a professional development budget & leave help ensure you have the support you need to level up. We’re committed to helping every Eucalypt reach their full potential.
• You’ll work with others who are incredibly passionate about what they do - Our talent bar is high, and our work ethic is strong. You’ll get to stretch yourself every day, be given autonomy to tackle interesting problems, and work amongst people who care deeply about our patients.
• Benefits - We offer a range of benefits including:
  • Your own stake in the business with our employee options program
  • A monthly wellness allowance, for you to spend on whatever wellness means to you
  • A yearly personal development budget and 3 extra days of leave to continuously up-skill yourself
  • 25 days holiday + bank holidays with an enhanced parental leave policy
  • A fun office with regular socials including after-school sport, clubs, cycle kick-offs, and seasonal parties
  • Your own MacBook and more!
• Want to hear more about what it’s like to work at Eucalyptus? Hear from our team or check us out on Instagram @eucalyptus.health

At Eucalyptus, we value individuals from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, and we embrace the unique qualities each person brings. When you apply, please let us know of any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

Note: This description reflects the role and known information at the time of posting; please apply to be considered for the position.