Spacelift
Platform Engineer (remote Europe)
Remote Platform Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJul 6, 2026
Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
USA
Role overview
Platform Engineer (remote Europe)
Requirements and responsibilities
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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 salaryandequity 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
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