Platform Engineer (remote Europe)

Spacelift; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first options

Equity package

Job summary

Spacelift is seeking a backend/platform engineer to own the platform powering CI/CD, observability, and incident response. You will improve the delivery pipeline, reduce friction, and strengthen SLOs and observability across workloads and regions.

You will also own developer experience internally, participate in on-call rotations, and continue learning about the space of DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Developer Experience.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of backend or platform engineering with hands-on production systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and own the platform that powers all of Spacelift - from CI/CD to observability to incident response
• Improve our code delivery pipeline: reduce friction, tighten feedback loops, eliminate flakiness
• Strengthen our SLOs and observability posture - give every team better signals
• Sharpen our on-call experience by improving alert quality, response speed, and postmortem hygiene
• Optimise platform cost and scaling behaviour across workloads and regions
• Own developer experience internally: from local dev to debugging production
• Keep learning about our problem space
• You build it, you run it - you will also be part of the on-call rotation

Skills

Go

Backend engineering

CI/CD

Observability

Developer tooling

On-call experience

IaC tools

OpenTofu/Terraform

Ansible

AWS CloudFormation

Communication

Willingness to learn

Product mindset

Problem solving

Tools

OpenTofu/Terraform

Ansible

AWS CloudFormation

Datadog

Claude Code

PostgreSQL/Aurora

Job description

Spacelift is the infrastructure orchestration platform built for the modern software era, managing the full lifecycle for both traditional IaC and AI-accelerated infrastructure. It integrates with Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Pulumi, and Ansible in a single governed workflow so you deliver secure, compliant infrastructure at scale. Developer self-service, Golden Paths with guardrails, an OPA policy engine, and drift detection accelerate developer velocity while maintaining control. Spacelift Intelligence adds AI-powered provisioning and diagnostics across traditional and AI-driven workflows. Spacelift was founded in 2020 by long-time DevOps practitioner Marcin Wyszynski and successful entrepreneur Pawel Hytry and has raised $82.3M in funding over four rounds from top venture capital firms including Insight Partners, Blossom Capital, Hoxton Ventures, Inovo Venture partners and Five Elms Capital.

The role

• Build and own the platform that powers all of Spacelift - from CI/CD to observability to incident response
• Improve our code delivery pipeline: reduce friction, tighten feedback loops, eliminate flakiness
• Strengthen our SLOs and observability posture - give every team better signals
• Sharpen our on-call experience by improving alert quality, response speed, and postmortem hygiene
• Optimise platform cost and scaling behaviour across workloads and regions
• Own developer experience internally: from local dev to debugging production
• Keep learning about our problem space
• You build it, you run it - you will also be part of the on-call rotation

About You

• Passion for building products, love for tech, and interest in the problem space (DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Developer Experience)
• 4+ years of experience in backend or platform engineering, with hands‑on experience owning production systems
• Experience working with Go
• You have built or maintained CI/CD pipelines, observability stacks, or developer-facing tooling
• You have been on-call and improved it - not just responded to pages, but fixed root causes and leveled up the process
• Experience working with an IaC tool - OpenTofu/Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation
• You have excellent communication skills
• Eager to learn new tools and technologies
• Strong product mindset and big-picture thinking
• Focused on solving problems, not just completing tasks

Nice to have:

• Experience with Claude Code, Datadog
• PostgreSQL/Aurora optimization experience

How we work

• We move fast. Continuous deployments at least 2 times a day, we make heavy use of feature flags (LaunchDarkly)
• Ownership over our work and driving key product decisions
• Working closely as a team, transparent communication, caring about our system, ourselves, and customers
• Everything is an iteration and everything is an experiment
• Cultivate space for small and big innovation from all-engineering hackathons to smaller, ad-hoc experiments
• We use the best dev tools that we can get our hands on

Why Spacelift ?

• Innovative Culture : Join a team shaping cloud infrastructure management’s future
• Growth Opportunities : Be a key player in driving Spacelift ’s business and AWS partnership to new heights
• Work-Life Balance : Flexible work environment, with remote-first options and competitive compensation packages
• Collaborative Team : Work with passionate, talented people committed to driving success for our customers and partners
• Competitive salary and equity package : B2B contract

Hiring Process

• 30' HR intro call
• 30' Team Leader Interview
• Take-home exercise
• 90' Technical interview with live coding
• 45' Final Leadership call with our Director of Engineering

Our values

• We build for CUSTOMERS
• We RESPECT each other
• We take OWNERSHIP seriously
• We succeed through COLLABORATION
• We embrace SPARK & WONDER