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!

Work arrangement
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