Platform Engineer (remote Europe)

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 More here: Join Us! At Spacelift , you won’t just be working on a technical produc