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: https://spacelift.io/careers

Join Us! At Spacelift, you won’t just be working on a technical product - you’ll be part of a team shaping the future of DevOps. Apply to contribute to a platform loved by its users and take your career to the next level!