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Senior Platform Engineer
from Monzo · read the original and apply on their site
Cardiff, London or Remote (UK)
Our take: The real work here is building and running the Kubernetes and cloud platform that every Monzo engineer relies on, and writing the backend services that make its complexity simple for them.
If you light up when a gnarly distributed system finally reveals why it fails and scales the way it does, this is your kind of work. You will run the Kubernetes clusters, service mesh and cloud platform that every Monzo engineer depends on, and build the backend services that make all that complexity feel simple for them. It rewards the person who would rather build a clean self-service platform than a one-off fix, and who finds automation genuinely satisfying.
Needs
- infrastructure tending
- backend engineering
- systems design
- automating toil
- debugging systems
- distributed systems sense
Rewards
- taming complexity
- enabling other engineers
- system curiosity
- funded learning
Demands
- comfort with ambiguity
- fast pace
- high stakes scaling
- cross-team work
Grows
- scaling systems
- system investigation
- cloud integration
- data modelling
Values
- craftsmanship
- mission driven
- inclusion
- user obsession
- autonomy
- remote working
Drains
- maintaining old tooling
- on-call for infra
- config housekeeping
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