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!