Staff Platform Engineer — Remote, Cloud & CI/CD Leader

Jobgether; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Competitive pay

Flexible work arrangement

Collaborative platform team across EU/

Job summary

Jobgether on behalf of a partner in the United Kingdom is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to shape cloud infrastructure, CI pipelines, and the developer experience. You will lead cross-team platform initiatives and mentor engineers in a high-ownership environment.

The role emphasizes AWS, Terraform, Datadog observability, and automated deployments, with remote work across Europe/UK time zones. You’ll influence architecture and enable AI-powered workflows.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on software engineering with Staff Engineer or equivalent experience.
• Proven leadership in cross-functional initiatives and architectural influence.
• Experience designing and operating production cloud infrastructure (AWS).
• Deep knowledge of CI/CD, automation, and deployment practices.
• Strong collaboration, communication, and ownership mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead major platform engineering initiatives from design to deployment and improvement.
• Improve developer productivity with CI reliability and automated deployments.
• Shape platform architecture and ensure successful implementation of wide-scale solutions.
• Own cloud infra, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling for a scalable org.
• Develop self-service tooling and AI-enabled developer environments.

Skills

Staff Engineer

Technical leadership

AWS (ECS/Fargate, RDS)

Terraform/Terragrunt

CI/CD

Observability (Datadog)

Incident management

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

Datadog

AWS ECS/Fargate

RDS

Job description

Jobgether on behalf of a partner in the United Kingdom is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to shape cloud infrastructure, CI pipelines, and the developer experience. You will lead cross-team platform initiatives and mentor engineers in a high-ownership environment.

The role emphasizes AWS, Terraform, Datadog observability, and automated deployments, with remote work across Europe/UK time zones. You’ll influence architecture and enable AI-powered workflows.