Platform Engineer

Signicat; Rotterdam; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work style

Health & Wellness

Continuous growth

Onboarding plan

International team

Meet-ups

Job summary

Signicat is seeking a Platform Engineer to join our Platform Tribe and design the global Digital Trust Platform for digital identity needs. You’ll work with engineers, product managers and security experts to enhance the customer journey across borders.

You will contribute to scalable services, open-source tooling, and reliable deployments, with hybrid work and international collaboration. English proficiency is required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in the IT industry with hands-on cloud infra experience.
• 3+ years in cloud infrastructure (GCP a plus).
• Solid networking fundamentals and scalable service design.
• Experience in building, deploying and operating distributed systems.
• Proficient English, written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Design and build Signicat's global Digital Trust Platform.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and security teams.
• Ensure platform reliability, observability, and security.
• Participate in 24/7 on-call shifts for incidents.

Skills

Cloud infra

Networking fundamentals

Distributed systems

Golang programming

Platform design & DevOps

English communication

Tools

Terraform

GitLab

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

OpenTofu

Netbird

Golang

Job description

Signicat is a pan-European digital identity company that makes it easy and safe for organisations to know who they are interacting with online. Using our proprietary technology, we help companies and public organisations securely verify the identities of people and businesses, authenticate users, and enable compliant electronic document signing, so their customers can access services and complete online processes with confidence.

Today, Signicat employs over 550 people across 20 offices in 15 European countries. We work with leading banks, fintechs, telcos, public authorities, healthcare providers, and enterprises across retail and mobility to deliver trusted digital identity and onboarding solutions at scale. Joining Signicat means contributing to a mission that has a real impact on how society works and trusting each other in an increasingly digital world.

The Role

We're looking for an innovative and passionate Platform Engineer to join our Platform Tribe. You will design and build the global Signicat Digital Trust Platform for all digital identity needs across borders - in every step of the customer journey. You will be working with engineers, product managers and security experts to help us create a better experience for millions of users.

How You'll Make An Impact

• You'll think deeply about systems - their edge cases, failure modes, and life cycles to craft robust but manageable solutions to meet product requirements while utilizing best-of-breed solutions and tools whenever possible.
• You'll work closely with product owners to design systems and platform capabilities that increase speed to market for features that delight our end users, while making these systems observable, reliable and deployable for our engineers.
• You'll take part in periodic 24/7 on-call shifts to support incident management and platform reliability.
• You'll be a champion and a solid hands-on practitioner for DevOps best practices.
• You'll be an experienced voice that helps define our platform and technology roadmap.

Core technologies you will get to work with

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP);
• OpenTofu / Terraform;
• Gitlab;
• Golang;
• Netbird;
• ArgoCD;
• Kubernetes.

What we expect

• At least 5 years of experience in the IT industry, including 3+ years of hands‑on experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP experience is a plus).
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals.
• Experience in application development (Golang experience is a plus).
• Experience designing, building and deploying scalable services.
• Ability to consider and balance performance, reliability, security and scalability when designing technical solutions.
• Ability to guide development teams in using the platform securely and effectively.
• Experience managing, troubleshooting and debugging distributed systems.
• Experience working with high‑traffic or high‑volume transaction environments.
• Good written and spoken English skills.

What we offer

• Your tech, your way - choose the tech gear that aligns with your comfort and meets your preferences.
• Hybrid work style - collaborate with the team in-office several days a week and embrace the flexible work model.
• Work-life balance - enjoy extra paid days off annually, and we make sure to celebrate your work anniversaries to acknowledge the milestones you achieve.
• Health & Wellness - we prioritise your physical and mental well‑being by providing designated packs and access to the Headspace app.
• Continuous growth - quarterly development talks, a dedicated time during working hours each week for training and development, access to Udemy courses, defined career paths, and internal mentorship opportunities.
• Customised onboarding - we will prepare an Onboarding Plan to ensure an easy and smooth beginning.
• Be part of an international team - the opportunity to work from any other Signicat office for 2 months per year and 3 weeks per year from any EU country.
• Empowering feedback culture - by using employee engagement tools, we ensure that every voice is heard, empowering us to grow together.
• Meet-ups - frequent office gatherings and biennial Kick-off event to bring every Signicat under one roof that you don't want to miss.

Salary

We will discuss salary expectations during the hiring process to ensure our offer reflects your experience and qualifications.