# Staff Platform Engineer

**Company:** [hyperexponential](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/hyperexponential)
**Location:** London, United Kingdom
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Platform Engineering, AI, Automation, Self-Service Infrastructure, Cloud Infrastructure, Architecture, Security, Reliability Engineering, Operational Excellence, Infrastructure As Code, Developer Productivity, Technical Standards
**Posted:** 2026-06-25

> Owns the technical direction of an AI-first platform, defining architecture, standards, and self-service capabilities that help engineering teams ship securely and efficiently. The role requires multi-team technical leadership, strong judgment on foundational trade-offs, and the ability to connect platform strategy to business outcomes.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Establish a coherent 12–18 month technical direction for the platform, including trade-offs, milestones, and alignment across engineering leadership.
- Drive broad adoption of platform capabilities through thoughtful design, documentation, and reduced friction for provisioning and deployment.
- Define architectural patterns and standards that enable autonomous and AI-augmented workflows across the organisation.
- Establish platform standards for security, reliability, and operational excellence that teams adopt through ease of use rather than gatekeeping.
- Reduce misconfiguration, security exceptions, operational incidents, and platform bottlenecks across the engineering estate.
- Serve as a technical authority and strengthen senior engineers through technical challenge, feedback, and exposure to complex problems.
- Make high-judgement decisions on foundational trade-offs such as build versus buy, depth versus breadth, and short-term pragmatism versus long-term coherence.
- Navigate disagreement among senior engineers, architects, and stakeholders to reach durable technical decisions.
- Design systems, standards, and enablement approaches that multiply the effectiveness of engineers across multiple teams.
- Define how AI and automation are embedded into the platform at an architectural level.
- Shape the platform roadmap using internal-customer feedback, usage data, and analysis of self-service friction.
- Identify architectural, security, and operational risks before they become incidents.
- Connect platform decisions to business outcomes and communicate platform strategy to senior leadership.
- Develop senior engineers and model the organisation's engineering culture.

## Requirements

- Experience defining architecture, standards, and patterns for a platform domain over a multi-quarter horizon.
- Experience making and communicating foundational technical trade-offs.
- Experience influencing senior engineers, architects, stakeholders, and teams without directly delivering every initiative.
- Experience embedding AI and automation into platform architecture and engineering workflows.
- Understanding of platform adoption dynamics, internal customer needs, and barriers to self-service.
- Ability to identify and influence security, reliability, operational, and cost-efficiency risks across an engineering organisation.
- Ability to translate engineering constraints and platform strategy into clear business language.
- Experience developing senior engineers through technical challenge and feedback.

## Compensation and Benefits

- Equity offered across all roles.
- £5,000 training and conference budget for individual and group development.
- 25 days of holiday plus 8 bank holidays (33 days total).
- Company pension scheme via Penfold.
- Mental health support and therapy via Spectrum.life.
- Individual wellbeing allowance via Juno.
- Private healthcare insurance through AXA.
- Income protection.

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