A live role
Platform Engineer
from Monzo · read the original and apply on their site
Cardiff, London or Remote (UK)
Our take: The real work here is running Monzo's core Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure while building the backend services that hide its complexity so every other engineering team can move fast.
If you get a quiet thrill from making a platform that just works for everyone downstream, this is your kind of role. You will run Kubernetes clusters and mesh across AWS and GCP, then build the backend services that hide that complexity so other engineers can move fast. It suits someone deeply curious about how distributed systems fail and scale, and happy in a fast, still-forming team.
Needs
- tending infrastructure
- building backend services
- automating toil
- distributed systems thinking
- debugging deep issues
- integrating open source
Rewards
- self-serve platforms built
- chasing root causes
- enabling other teams
- funded learning
Demands
- comfort with ambiguity
- fast pace
- high stakes
- cross-team work
Grows
- distributed systems design
- platform at scale
- system investigation
- new tooling depth
Values
- craftsmanship
- developer experience
- mission driven
- inclusion
- work-life balance
Drains
- endless infra upkeep
- terraform config wrangling
- carrying on-call
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