Senior+ Platform Engineer - Remote

Overview

Swarmia was founded to help every team achieve visibility into their own ways of working, a culture of small but continuous improvement, and great tooling to help them improve in a way that sticks. Companies like Docker, Miro, and Webflow use Swarmia’s SaaS product.

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer with deep infrastructure expertise to help us build and operate production systems that our customers rely on daily.

Our infrastructure mainly runs on Google Cloud and is managed with Terraform. Since starting the company five years ago, we’ve reached 99.9% uptime every year. Our code is continuously deployed to production, with high automated test coverage. While we’re very experienced with building production systems that scale, you will be the first person to be fully dedicated to the Platform & Infrastructure work with this title.

In Short

• Assist product teams in running their Kubernetes payloads and automating manual steps.
• Design and implement infrastructure changes using Terraform.
• Collaborate with product teams to optimize application performance and resource utilization.
• Analyze bottlenecks and implement solutions proactively.
• Optimize cloud costs and identify efficiency opportunities.
• Configure VPCs and segment production networks securely.
• Write documentation and playbooks collaboratively.
• Set up monitoring and SLO alerting.
• Plan for database and infrastructure scaling.
• Review security posture and implement improvements.
• Automate operational tasks.
• Maintain compliance requirements.
• Provide customer support when needed.
• Optimize PostgreSQL performance.

Requirements

• Deep infrastructure expertise.
• Experience with Google Cloud and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in Terraform.
• Knowledge of PostgreSQL and Redis.
• Familiarity with observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team.

Benefits

• A highly experienced and motivated team.
• A relevant domain for engineers.
• 70-90k€ annual salary plus equity.
• Paid annual vacation with extra days for new employees.
• Flexible work model.
• Great work/life balance.