Staff Platform Engineer

flower; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 650,000 - 850,000; Full time

Job summary

Flower Technologies AB is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to oversee the technical direction of their platform. This hands-on leadership role emphasizes improving developer experience through effective DevOps practices.

Candidates should have extensive experience with AWS and a strong foundation in developing reliable systems. The position supports a hybrid work model, fostering collaboration while allowing for flexibility.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of engineering experience with backend or product engineering background.
• Strong experience operating production workloads on AWS (ECS or EKS).
• Deep familiarity with CI/CD design and progressive delivery.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for platform engineering and improve code quality.
• Drive DevOps practices including CI/CD on GitHub Actions.
• Partner with engineers to support observability work.

Skills

AWS (ECS, EKS)

DevOps practices

CI/CD design

Infrastructure as code (Terraform)

Backend development

Tools

Grafana Cloud

Linux

Job description

What We Do

Flower is Flexible Power. We are a next-gen energy company leveraging AI and machine learning to make renewable energy stable and always available – even when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing.

Through smart optimization and trading of energy assets like wind and solar farms, battery systems, and EV chargers, we make renewable energy reliable and predictable, leading the charge towards the energy system of tomorrow.

Who We Are

Tech company at heart – purpose in our DNA. Flower consists of a diverse group of innovative individuals with a strong desire to improve the state of the world.

At Flower, we believe trust, collaboration and diversity are essential to not only create an inclusive work environment, but also drive career growth. By embracing varying perspectives, we allow creativity and progress to flourish.

To accelerate towards our goal of becoming the pioneering force powering the energy system of tomorrow, we are now looking for a passionate and skilled Staff Platform Engineer to join our Platform team.

About the role

Flower runs renewable energy assets at the edge of what's technically possible. Our traders make decisions in seconds, our IoT devices stream telemetry from sites across Europe, and our data and AI systems sit in the middle of it all. The platform that enables these workloads has to be fast, reliable, and a joy to build on.

That's where you come in.

As Staff Platform Engineer you will set the technical direction for how Flower's platform evolves, with a particular focus on DevOps, SRE, and developer experience. You'll work alongside the Head of Platform and a team of platform and data engineers, and your customers are the product squads building Flower's trading and AI systems. Your job is to make them faster, safer, and more productive.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You'll write code, design systems, mentor engineers, and shape practice across the group, without formal management responsibility.

What you'll do

• Set technical direction across the platform engineering group, raising the bar on architecture, code quality, and operational excellence.

• Drive Flower's DevOps practice and scale it across all product workloads, including CI/CD on GitHub Actions, deployment patterns, and release safety.

• Treat the platform as a product. Understand the pain points of our trading, AI, and product squads firsthand, and prioritize platform investments accordingly.

• Own and evolve ECS & EKS on AWS as a first-class workload platform, including service templates, autoscaling, networking, and developer tooling.

• Own and evolve Modal as a core compute substrate for batch jobs, agents, and trading-adjacent workloads.

• Partner with our Platform Engineers to stand up Flower's SRE practice, including on-call, incident response, SLOs, and operational readiness.

• Support observability work on Grafana Cloud alongside the engineers who own that domain today.

• Mentor platform engineers across the group / squads.

Who you are

• You have 8+ years of engineering experience, with meaningful time spent as a backend or product engineer before moving into platform or DevOps work. You know what a bad platform feels like from the inside, and you care about fixing it.

• You have led technical work across a group of engineers, whether as a tech lead, staff engineer, or principal. You set direction without needing a manager title to do it.

• You have strong, hands-on experience operating production workloads on AWS, particularly ECS or EKS. You're comfortable with task and service design, autoscaling, deployment strategies, and networking.

• You have practical experience with managed or serverless compute platforms such as Modal, Lambda, or Cloud Run.

• You have deep DevOps fundamentals: CI/CD design (GitHub Actions or similar), release safety, progressive delivery, environment strategy, secrets handling.

• You have solid SRE fundamentals: on-call design, incident response, SLOs and error budgets, postmortem culture.

• You're comfortable with infrastructure as code (Terraform), Linux, and networking fundamentals.

• You're familiar with observability stacks (Grafana Cloud, OTel, or similar) and can partner credibly with the engineer who owns that domain.

• You've worked in a scale-up or growth-stage engineering org and you're comfortable with ambiguity, fast iteration, and small high-trust teams.

• You're collaborative, low-ego, and you bring others up around you.

Location

Our beautiful office is located in the heart of Södermalm, just a short walk from Slussen subway station. We encourage in-office collaboration but support a hybrid work model.