Staff Platform Architect — Data at Scale (Remote)

Plan:it; Greater London; Remote; GBP 108,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote (UK)

Flexible hours

Strong benefits package

Job summary

Plan:it is seeking a Staff Engineer (Architecture & Data at Scale) to shape core data platforms for a fast-growing SaaS business. You will own design and technology across teams, set architectural direction, and untangle trade-offs for performance, reliability and scale.

You should have proven experience with high-volume data ingestion, streaming, and search workloads, Kubernetes, Kafka, and a Python-first mindset; TypeScript/Node.js experience is a plus.

Qualifications

• Experience designing high-volume data systems.
• Ability to design distributed architectures for scale.
• Proven track record of leading technical decisions across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and technology for a core area of the product across multiple teams.
• Influence architectural direction and trade-offs for performance and scalability.
• Explain design decisions to engineers and customers.
• Focus on system design and architecture rather than day-to-day ticket work.

Skills

High-volume data systems

System design

Distributed architectures

Data ingestion & streaming

Technical leadership

Tools

Kafka

Elasticsearch

MongoDB

Kubernetes

Node.js

Python

Job description

Plan:it is seeking a Staff Engineer (Architecture & Data at Scale) to shape core data platforms for a fast-growing SaaS business. You will own design and technology across teams, set architectural direction, and untangle trade-offs for performance, reliability and scale.

You should have proven experience with high-volume data ingestion, streaming, and search workloads, Kubernetes, Kafka, and a Python-first mindset; TypeScript/Node.js experience is a plus.