Platform Engineer

Spacelift is the infrastructure orchestration platform built for the modern software era managing the full lifecycle for both traditional IaC and AI-accelerated infrastructure.

It integrates with Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Pulumi, and Ansible in a single governed workflow so you deliver secure, compliant infrastructure at scale.

Developer self-service, Golden Paths with guardrails, an OPA policy engine, and drift detection accelerate developer velocity while maintaining control.

Spacelift Intelligence adds AI-powered provisioning and diagnostics across traditional and AI-driven workflows.

Spacelift was founded in 2020 by long-time DevOps practitioner Marcin Wyszynski and successful entrepreneur Pawel Hytry and has raised $82.3M in funding over four rounds from top venture capital firms including Insight Partners, Blossom Capital, Hoxton Ventures, Inovo Venture Partners, and Five Elms Capital.

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 Salary and Equity 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

More here: https://spacelift.io/careers

Join Us!

At Spacelift, you won’t just be working on a technical product - you’ll be part of a team shaping the future of DevOps.

Apply to contribute to a platform loved by its users and take your career to the next level!