Platform Cloud Engineer

Caesars Entertainment; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Caesars Entertainment in Kraków, Poland is seeking a Cloud Core Platform Engineer to support developers, lower environments, and production systems. The role is hybrid with onsite presence in Kraków 1–2 days a week.

You will design, develop, and optimize complex features with the tech lead, build highly performant components, and ensure a secure, reliable platform while advancing frontend technologies and engineering excellence.

Qualifications

• 4–6 years of experience developing infrastructure as code solutions.
• Experience delivering and/or maintaining large-scale multi-team platforms.
• Experience working in Kubernetes environments.
• Thorough understanding of Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, and containers.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize complex features along with the technical lead and solutions architect.
• Build and maintain performant components optimized for developers to deliver world-class applications.
• Deliver initiatives to meet the demands of the business: a stable, performant, supportable platform.
• Advocate for and deliver development experience improvements.
• Tackle optimization challenges with reusable, modular code using design patterns and best practices.
• Stay at the forefront of platform technologies and implement new techniques to improve workflows.
• Participate in peer code reviews and provide constructive feedback to drive quality.
• Foster technical growth and collaboration within the engineering team.
• Implement feature quality analytics to inform product decisions and monitor performance.
• Take part in on-call support.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Containers

CI/CD

Bash

Python/Go

Code reviews

Makefiles

Docker

YAML

Communication

On-call

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

OTEL

NewRelic

Splunk

Job description

As a Cloud Core Platform Engineer, you will be essential in supporting our developers, lower environments, and ultimately our production system. We run a 24x7x365 business and must develop a highly performant, resilient, scalable, and user‑focused platform. You will assist in the implementation of critical projects while working with your team (pod), collaborate across teams within the platform organization to ensure best practices and innovative solutions are adopted, and interact with developers to get their code into production. We focus on delivering exceptional user experiences for our developers and areas of support. This role empowers you to lead the charge in advancing frontend technologies and fostering a culture of engineering excellence.

This is a hybrid role reporting onsite to our Krakow, Poland office 1-2 days a week.

What You Will Do

• Leverage your expertise to assist in design, develop, and optimize complex features along with the technical lead and solutions architect.
• Build and maintain extremely performant components optimized for our developers to deliver world‑class applications in a secure and reliable manner.
• Assist in delivering initiatives to meet the demands of our business: A stable, performant, supportable platform.
• Advocate for and deliver development experience improvements.
• Tackle optimization challenges head‑on, creating efficient, reusable, and modular code using design patterns and best practices.
• Stay at the forefront of platform technologies, continuously exploring and implementing new techniques to improve development workflows.
• Actively participate in peer code reviews, offering and receiving constructive feedback to drive code quality.
• Foster technical growth and collaboration within the engineering team.
• Implement feature quality analytics to inform product decisions and monitor performance.
• Take part in on‑call support.

What You’ll Need

• 4–6 years of experience developing infrastructure as code solutions.
• Experience delivering and/or maintaining large‑scale multi‑team platforms.
• Experience working in Kubernetes environments.
• Experience using tools like OTEL, NewRelic, and Splunk to understand performance and issues.
• Thorough understanding of Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, and containers – core principles, patterns, and best practices.
• Open to learning how to implement and support scalable, maintainable, and robust hybrid platform architecture (due to the Wire Act, we must be able to support on‑premise locations).
• Understanding of security controls around cloud solutions.
• Excellent communication, able to clearly articulate and raise risks, issues, and plans.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, bash scripting, python or Go languages.
• Problem‑solving skills for tackling complex, unconventional technical challenges.
• Proficient and active in code reviews.
• This position is a core contributor and requires committing of quality code.
• Strong understanding of MakeFiles, DockerBuild files, and YAML.

Nice To Have

• Proficiency in testing methodologies (unit, integration, and UI tests).
• A background in working with real‑time applications and push data.
• Excellent time and project management skills, with a track record of delivering high‑quality products.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience.