Senior Platform Engineer

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🕒 August 12

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Sky Betting & Gaming

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1001 - 5000 employees

🎲 Gambling

🎮 Gaming

👥 B2C

Gambling • Gaming • B2C

Sky Betting & Gaming is a UK-based consumer-facing betting and online gaming operator. Now part of Flutter UK & Ireland and the wider Flutter Entertainment group, the brand is presented alongside Betfair, Paddy Power, PokerStars and tombola as a market-leading provider of trusted entertainment to millions of customers. The company emphasizes responsible play, customer experience and uses digital platforms (web and apps) to deliver betting and gaming services, with operational presence in Leeds and registration under Flutter Entertainment plc.

📋 Description

• Implement team-level standards for AI-augmented development using prompt engineering and validation frameworks • Identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities and over-abstraction in AI-generated code, and track team productivity metrics • Design, build, and maintain highly available cloud-native infrastructure • Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling • Implement and maintain platform security safeguards and compliance standards • Contribute to monitoring, tracing, alerting, and the system observability roadmap • Partner with product and engineering teams to translate technical requirements into scalable platform solutions • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers • Lead incident response for team-owned services • Champion modern engineering best practices • Own complex features from ideation through production and partner with engineering leads on platform abstractions and developer experience

🎯 Requirements

• 5 plus years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or backend engineering • Track record of building scalable, cloud-native environments using AWS and Kubernetes • Strong proficiency using AI collaborators such as Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot to ship production code • Ability to evaluate AI-generated code for security gaps or architectural hallucinations • Rigorous testing strategy implementation • Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code frameworks such as Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation • High proficiency in Java and Python; Golang is a plus • Experience building mature CI/CD pipelines • Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog • Ability to take ownership of complex projects while balancing speed with architectural health • Strong communication and collaboration skills with distributed engineering and product teams • Visa sponsorship is not available; candidates must be eligible to work in the United Kingdom • Preferred: experience in high-growth startup environments, financial systems or real-money transactions, regulatory compliance, internal developer tools or CLI applications, and leading small project groups

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote employee may also be eligible for a home office setup stipend • Potential in-person cultural immersion through Launching into Better: LIVE, depending on role and location