Senior Software Engineer: Platform SRE

Flexport; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity program

Parental leave

25 vacation days

Office lunches

Pension plan

Commuting costs covered

Job summary

Flexport is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Platform SRE team in Amsterdam. You will help build and operate infrastructure powering Flexport engineering across 112 countries, focusing on reliability, observability and security.

Design and run scalable cloud infrastructure in AWS, contribute to Kubernetes and Argo deployments, and improve our CI/CD pipelines and IaC patterns. You’ll work with product teams to ship resilient services and play a key role in incident response and

Qualifications

• Production infrastructure and APIs in a cloud environment.
• AWS cloud platform hands-on experience required.
• Strong IaC skills, preferably Terraform, with safe patterns.
• Software engineering experience and ability to build automation.
• Incident response experience and blameless post-mortems.
• Proactive, ambiguous situations and problem-solving mindset.
• Security, IAM, networking and change management expertise.
• Clear, effective communication of tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate reliable, scalable cloud infrastructure in AWS.
• Contribute to Kubernetes, Argo, Helm, and deployment tooling.
• Improve observability with Openmetrics and Datadog.
• Follow IaC standards using Terraform.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and build tooling (Gradle, npm, Go).
• Improve incident response tooling and processes.
• Partner with product teams to ship impactful changes.

Skills

Production infrastructure

AWS experience

Infrastructure as Code

Software engineering

Incident response

Proactive mindset

IAM & security

GitOps

Observability

Openmetrics

Datadog

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

Argo

Terraform

Terraform

Openmetrics

Datadog

Buildkit

Github Actions

Gradle

Bazel

npm/pnpm/bun

Go

Cargo

Artifactory

ECR

Job description

At Flexport, we believe global trade can move the human race forward. That’s why it’s our mission to make global commerce so easy there will be more of it. We’re shaping the future of a $10T industry with solutions powered by innovative technology and exceptional people. Today, companies of all sizes—from emerging brands to Fortune 500s—use Flexport technology to move more than $19B of merchandise across 112 countries a year.

The recent global supply chain crisis has put Flexport center stage as we continue to play a pivotal role in how goods move around the world. We are proud to have the support of the best investors in the game who believe in our mission, solutions and people. Ready to tackle global challenges that impact business, society, and the environment? Come join us.

About Flexport:

At Flexport, we believe global trade can move the human race forward. That’s why it’s our mission to make global commerce so easy there will be more of it. We’re shaping the future of a $10T industry with solutions powered by innovative technology and exceptional people. Today, companies of all sizes - from emerging brands to Fortune 500s - use Flexport technology to move more than $19B of merchandise across 112 countries a year.

The recent global supply chain crisis has put Flexport center stage as we continue to play a pivotal role in how goods move around the world. We are proud to have the support of the best investors in the game who believe in our mission, solutions and people. Ready to tackle global challenges that impact business, society, and the environment? Come join us.

Senior Software Engineer: Platform SRE

Every engineer at Flexport ships code that moves real freight across 112 countries. The faster, more reliable and safer they can do that, the faster the world's supply chains move. The PSI (Platform, Security & Infrastructure) team makes this possible: we build and operate the infrastructure and foundations that hundreds of engineers rely on to run Flexport's products around the clock.

This is not a role where you wait for tickets. You'll look across systems, identify risks before they become incidents, and work with the software engineering and security teams to make our infrastructure more resilient, observable, efficient, secure, and easier to operate.

What You'll Do

You'll help build and operate the infrastructure that powers Flexport engineering. That means:

• Designing, building and operating reliable, scalable infrastructure in AWS and other cloud platforms
• Contributing to our container orchestration (Kubernetes), Helm charts, deployment systems (Argo) and the guardrails around them to ensure engineers can safely deploy, run, understand and debug their services
• Improving our observability stack (Openmetrics, Datadog) to make insights into our systems as good and easy to understand as possible
• Following and helping refine standards for our Infrastructure-as-Code codebases (Terraform)
• Supporting developers with CI/CD pipelines (Buildkit, Github Actions), build tooling (Gradle, Bazel, npm/pnpm/bun, Go and Cargo) and artifact repositories (Artifactory, ECR, github)
• Improving our incident response tooling to ensure we can efficiently handle incidents when they occur
• Partnering with product teams to ship changes that impact the wider engineering org

You Should Have

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, site reliability engineering or infrastructure engineering experience, with meaningful time spent on production system infrastructure
• Solid knowledge of cloud infrastructure, with hands‑on AWS experience
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code skills, preferably with Terraform, and an eye for safe, reusable infrastructure patterns. Clickops should be your tool of last resort
• Solid software engineering skills and the ability to build automation and production tooling in a general-purpose programming language
• Experience participating in incident response and blameless post‑mortems or COE processes
• A proactive mindset: you're comfortable with ambiguity and can identify high‑leverage problems without waiting to be told what to do
• Good judgment around infrastructure: security, IAM, networking and change management
• Strong communication: you can write a clear design or incident document and explain operational tradeoffs
• A generally helpful attitude. Everyone should know you within no time as the person who gets stuff unblocked, points them in the right direction and makes their work easier. The 90's can keep their BOFH.
• A drive for impact: you care about our systems being reliable and want engineers to feel confident operating what they own

Nice to Have

• Experience operating AWS at scale across multiple accounts, regions and availability zones
• Experience with GitOps and continuous delivery tooling such as Argo CD
• Experience with Identity and Access Management, including OIDC
• Exposure to disaster recovery, business continuity, or resilience testing
• Experience improving cloud cost efficiency and resource utilization

How We Work

• We come to the office 3 times a week to hang out, whiteboard, and ship together
• We have the latest hardware and software, including frontier AI models on day one
• We're agile, but not dogmatic. Teams decide how they work best

Why This Role Is Special

• Real leverage: the improvements you ship are felt across hundreds of engineers and thousands of deploys a day
• Strong ownership: you'll drive meaningful pieces of design, implementation, and rollout
• You help shape the foundation: the infrastructure patterns and operational standards the team sets become how Flexport engineering runs software for years to come

What's in it for you:

• An opportunity to contribute to one of the fastest-growing companies, where you’ll have the chance to create a global impact while being a part of a thriving multinational environment
• Daily catered lunches including vegetarian options, breakfast, snacks and soft drinks available in our office
• Commute expenses: Flexport will cover home‑office commuting costs for employees living outside of Amsterdam
• 25 working days as vacation days based on full time employment.
• Health insurance: Flexport offers a collective health insurance plan including a basic package and several additional packages. Your monthly premium is fully paid by Flexport.
• A defined pension contribution scheme
• Equity program: every team member becomes a shareholder, aligning our success with yours. As a private company in a multi-trillion dollar industry, you have a direct stake in our collective growth and success.
• Employee Assistance Program through Aetna Resources for Living: Flexport provides an employer-sponsored program at no cost to you and your household members
• Parental leave benefit: Flexport is here to support you and your families in one of the most important times in life - the birth of a child! Our parental leave program allows both mothers and partners to take time off from work for pregnancy, childbirth, and to bond with your new child.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

At Flexport, our ability to fulfill our mission of making global commerce easy and accessible relies on having a diverse, dedicated and engaged workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical and mental disability, health status, marital and family status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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