Platform Engineer

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November 13

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Ben is the unordinary global flexible benefits platform that lifts people up.

51 - 200 employees

💰 $16M Series A on 2022-08

📋 Description

• Set up infrastructure components using Terraform (via Terragrunt) with maintainability, scalability & reliability in mind • Tooling and processes to support product squads in increasing the speed, reliability and visibility of their development workflows • Tooling and processes to improve monitoring, logging, events and tracing at both the infrastructure and application layer • Working with product squads to deliver infrastructure to support new services/features in a secure and scalable manner • Working to right-size our services and implement features such as auto-scaling to increase the cost effectiveness of our platform and reduce waste • Collaborating with the security squad on projects to increase our security posture, such as improving our least privilege approach to IAM roles for users and services • Maintaining clear and up-to-date documentation for systems and procedures to increase product squad self-service

🎯 Requirements

• Have built cost-effective, secure systems in AWS - you understand the trade-offs between different services and can make pragmatic infrastructure decisions. • Are comfortable with containerised applications (we run on ECS/Fargate) and have used Infrastructure as Code tooling like Terraform to manage cloud resources. • Have worked extensively with monitoring and observability tools (we use Datadog and Sentry) and know how to debug issues in production. • Can write solid shell and Python scripts to automate common tasks and build internal tooling. • Communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences - you can explain complex infrastructure decisions to product teams and leadership. • Nice-to-haves, but not deal-breakers: Experience implementing SLIs/SLOs and helping product teams track service reliability. • Background working in ISO 27001 or SOC2 compliant environments. • Advanced Python development skills (our platform team maintains Python tooling deployed via Lambda).

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary + equity, so you own what you build • Bonus scheme designed to reward and recognise high performance • €100 monthly personal Ben Balance: for whatever works for you, whether that's Netflix, Spotify, or a really expensive cup of coffee! This allowance will increase by €50 for each year of service until you reach €250 • €1,000 work from home allowance to help you set yourself up for success, whether that's a standing desk, a comfy chair, or the tech setup that works best for you • €1,000 annual L&D budget to invest in your professional development, from conferences and courses to coaching and books • 28 days of holidays a year plus bank holidays, and an option to buy or sell 5 days per year. Also, your holiday entitlement will increase to 30 days at your 3rd year of service! • Comprehensive and tailored mental health support and professional coaching through a leading provider