Staff Software Engineer: Platform SRE

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate reliable, scalable infrastructure in AWS and other cloud platforms.
• Evolve Kubernetes, Helm charts, Argo deployment systems, and deployment guardrails.
• Improve observability using OpenMetrics and Datadog.
• Set standards for Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Build and support CI/CD pipelines with BuildKit and GitHub Actions.
• Maintain build tooling and artifact repositories, including Gradle, Bazel, npm, pnpm, Bun, Go, Cargo, Artifactory, ECR, and GitHub.
• Improve incident response tooling and lead cross-functional platform changes.
• Identify infrastructure risks proactively and improve resilience, observability, efficiency, security, and operability.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software, site reliability, or infrastructure engineering experience, including substantial production infrastructure work.
• Deep cloud infrastructure knowledge and hands-on AWS experience.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code skills, preferably with Terraform, and experience creating safe, reusable infrastructure patterns.
• Strong software engineering skills and the ability to build automation and production tooling in a general-purpose programming language.
• Experience leading incident response, conducting blameless postmortems or COE processes, and implementing follow-up actions.
• Sound judgment regarding security, IAM, networking, and change management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including design and incident documentation and cross-team stakeholder alignment.
• Ability to work independently, identify high-leverage problems, and operate effectively in ambiguity.

Nice to Have

• Experience operating AWS at scale across multiple accounts, regions, and availability zones.
• Experience with GitOps and continuous delivery tools such as Argo CD.
• Experience with identity and access management at scale, including OIDC.
• Experience designing disaster recovery, business continuity, and resilience testing programs.
• Experience improving cloud cost efficiency and resource utilization.

Compensation and Benefits

• 25 vacation days based on full-time employment.
• Employer-paid collective health insurance, including basic and additional packages.
• Defined pension contribution scheme.
• Equity program.
• Catered meals, breakfast, snacks, and soft drinks at the office.
• Commuting costs covered for employees living outside Amsterdam.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Parental leave benefit.
• Hybrid work with three office days per week.