What You'll Do
Lead the evolution of a real-time platform by improving system efficiency, reliability, and cost performance. You'll write production code while guiding infrastructure strategy across engineering teams, ensuring systems scale intelligently and remain resilient under load.
Take ownership of cloud spending by identifying inefficiencies and implementing rightsizing initiatives that deliver measurable savings. Build internal tooling and safeguards to prevent cost regressions and maintain platform health over time.
Enhance observability across services, define meaningful SLOs, and strengthen core systems that underpin all product offerings. Play a central role in evaluating Kubernetes adoption, shaping database architecture, and guiding cloud provider strategy—including potential migrations.
Help define long-term technical direction, set engineering standards, and collaborate closely with product and SDK teams to maintain a fast, reliable developer experience.
Requirements
You have a background in software engineering with a focus on building systems, not just configuring them. You've worked extensively with Go or Python in backend or platform roles, writing more than just scripts.
Proven experience managing large-scale AWS or GCP environments with a focus on cost optimization and measurable outcomes is essential. You understand distributed systems and have made real decisions around database schema, replication strategies, and latency constraints.
You’ve led technical projects while staying hands-on with code, capable of driving a design decision one day and submitting a PR the next. You thrive in small teams of 3–5 engineers, operating independently without heavy organizational support.
You actively use AI tools in your development workflow and believe in their practical value, not just theoretical potential.
Preferred Qualifications
- Production-level Kubernetes experience at scale
- Experience migrating workloads between cloud providers or re-architecting for performance and cost
- Contributions to open source projects related to infrastructure or platform tooling
- Public speaking or writing on topics like cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or platform engineering
- Background at an API-first or infrastructure-focused scale-up
Technical Stack
Go, Python, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, Redis, Terraform, Prometheus, and a full observability stack.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity package
- 28 days paid time off plus Dutch public holidays
- Pension plan
- Annual Learning & Development budget
- Commute reimbursement for Amsterdam office or company bike program
- Fitness stipend
- Opportunities to contribute to open-source projects
- Benefits tailored to your country of residence if working remotely
Work Mode
This role supports hybrid work. You can work remotely within Europe or follow a hybrid model based in Amsterdam. Local attendance policies apply for office-based hires.
Company Culture
We focus on solving complex engineering challenges at scale. The company is growing sustainably with strong revenue and a technical-first mindset. Engineering is central to our success, and all technical leaders remain hands-on with code.
We operate a default-alive philosophy—building resilient systems and fostering a culture of learning. Our global edge network powers low-latency delivery worldwide.
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. This policy covers all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, promotions, and compensation.
