Senior Platform Engineer

Divitel; Netherlands; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

Development budget

Conference allowance

Global product

Senior team

Job summary

Divitel is building MindRelay, our observability platform that monitors video and broadband infrastructure for operators worldwide. You will design the platform architecture, focusing on scalability, reliability, and observability, and own data pipelines processing millions of events daily from multi-vendor environments.

You will manage Kubernetes deployments, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code, collaborating with operations to translate monitoring requirements into platform capabilities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend or platform engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Python and/or Go.
• Experience with event streaming systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container-based deployments.
• Solid understanding of observability concepts: metrics, logs, traces.
• Experience with time-series databases (InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, or similar).
• Fluent in English; Dutch is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the MindRelay platform architecture with focus on scalability, reliability, and observability.
• Build and maintain data ingestion pipelines processing millions of events daily from multi-vendor environments.
• Own the platform runtime: Kubernetes deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Collaborate with operations teams to translate monitoring requirements into platform capabilities.
• Mentor junior engineers and drive technical decision-making within the team.
• Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to incident post-mortems.

Skills

Backend engineering

Python

Go

Kafka / RabbitMQ

Kubernetes

Observability

InfluxDB / TimescaleDB

English fluency

Dutch (optional)

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

Build the core of MindRelay, our observability platform that monitors mission-critical video and broadband infrastructure for operators worldwide.

About the role

What you will do

• Design and evolve the MindRelay platform architecture, focusing on scalability, reliability, and observability
• Build and maintain data ingestion pipelines that process millions of events per day from multi-vendor environments
• Own the platform runtime: Kubernetes deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code
• Collaborate with operations teams to translate monitoring requirements into platform capabilities
• Mentor junior engineers and drive technical decision-making within the team
• Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to incident post-mortems

What we are looking for

• 5+ years of backend or platform engineering experience
• Strong proficiency in Python and/or Go
• Experience with event streaming systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container-based deployments
• Solid understanding of observability concepts: metrics, logs, traces
• Experience with time-series databases (InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, or similar)
• Fluent in English; Dutch is a plus

Nice to have

• Experience in telecom, IPTV, or broadcast environments
• Familiarity with SNMP, MPEG monitoring, or video QoE metrics
• Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, or similar observability stacks
• Contributions to open-source projects

What we offer

• Competitive salary and annual performance bonus
• Personal development budget and conference allowance
• Work on a product used by operators across 4 continents
• Small, senior team with real ownership and no unnecessary process