Staff Platform Engineer

IVP; Camden Town; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in Camden Town is looking for a Platform Engineer to ensure the stability, performance, and security of their platform on-prem and in the cloud. The role demands expertise in Kubernetes, AWS, and Linux. The ideal candidate will automate processes, troubleshoot issues, and work collaboratively across teams. With a flexible hybrid work environment, competitive benefits, and a diverse culture, this position offers an exciting opportunity to shape the future of the platform.

Benefits

30 days of annual leave

Flexible hours

Monthly full-day hacking sessions

Virtual Shares

Competitive benefits

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with AWS and Kubernetes.
• Good understanding of compute, storage, and networking.
• Strong Linux skills and ability to learn new technologies quickly.

Responsibilities

• Ensure stability, performance and security of the platform.
• Automate manual work and write monitoring software.
• Troubleshoot performance anomalies and handle incidents.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

Linux

Networking

Software Engineering

Tools

Ceph

HAProxy

Cloudflare

Job description

Overview

The Platform team is responsible for providing K8s clusters, storage, load-balancing, and other foundational building blocks for our internal platform. As a Platform Engineer, you will ensure the stability, performance, and security of our platform, on‑prem and in the cloud. We currently run well over 10,000 pods across more than 1,000 nodes in our Kubernetes clusters, running operations for products used by more than 100 million people worldwide. Our stack is nearly all open‑source technology: if we run it, we can fix it.

Responsibilities

• Keep the foundations of our platform stable, performant, and secure
• Write software to monitor platform components and automate manual work
• Get a deep understanding of the technologies we work with (e.g. Ceph, karpenter, HAProxy, Cloudflare)
• Troubleshoot reliability or performance anomalies in depth
• Handle incidents and participate in on‑call rotations
• Increase platform security
• Seek to make the platform simpler to maintain and more reliable for our teams to use
• Work closely with other development teams to optimise their usage of the platform and increase the offering to make the DevEx better
• Support team mates in their professional development through coaching and teaching skills

Bonus points

• Experience with running infrastructure in a hybrid on‑prem/cloud setup
• Storage systems such as Ceph
• Experience with hardening systems

Qualifications

• Good understanding of compute, storage, and networking
• Hands‑on experience with AWS
• In depth experience of containers and scheduling – ideally Kubernetes
• Basic software engineering skills
• Great understanding of Linux and networking
• Passion for digging into OS‑level details
• Ability to quickly learn about new technologies
• Product‑oriented mindset and eagerness to improve the experience of our developers and customers

Benefits & Culture

• Diverse and internationally distributed team
• Open communication, regular feedback
• Hybrid work, flexible hours
• Regular in‑person team events
• Monthly full‑day hacking sessions
• 30 days of annual leave
• Virtual Shares
• Competitive benefits

We are an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at DeepL for who you are—we appreciate authenticity here. Our product is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all succeed, contribute, and think forward!