Platform Engineer
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Requirements
• Exceptional engineering skills: 3+ years of experience in a software development or platform engineering role. • Infrastructure expertise: Experience operating production systems on AWS (or other cloud provider), hands-on with Kubernetes, and enough Terraform to have opinions about how to structure it. Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar). • Strong technical foundation: Demonstrated ability to write production-quality code and solve hard technical problems (experience with Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, systems programming, or browser internals is valuable). • On-call experience: you know how to triage issues under pressure, drive them to resolution, and write the postmortem afterward. You understand that reliability is built through good design, not just good monitoring. • Awareness of security best practices and compliance requirements (SOC 2 or similar). • Cost consciousness: not just making things work, but making them work economically at scale. You've rightsized compute, managed Spot instances, or made similar trade-offs. • High drive and bias for action: you thrive with minimal supervision, make decisions quickly, and take ownership of outcomes. When you see a problem, you fix it. This role demands entrepreneurial self-drive and comfort with ambiguity. • What You'll Gain • Shape a new function • As the first Platform Engineer, you'll define how this role evolves and grow into leadership as the team expands. • Exceptional growth • You grow through a combination of the people you work with, and the experiences you’re exposed to. Within that context: • Our philosophy is that density of talent is what matters; and so we’ve focused on keeping the team small but with exceptional individuals. You’ll get to collaborate with world-class engineers who previously led 100+ person organizations at top companies, and we expect you’ll find the team is beyond any you’ve worked in before, within big tech (Google, Meta, etc.) or otherwise. This, combined with a focus on learning and growing together, means we’re able to learn from each other at rapid pace. • Beyond growing your skills through engineering and collaboration, the role involves spending a lot of time with engineering leaders at the fastest growing tech companies and leading firms in the world. We’ve found this gives us a unique exposure to a huge range of technologies, practices, techniques, codebases, architectures, cultures, learnings - what works, what doesn’t. It’s a valuable bird eye view of collective learnings and experiences. These learnings normally take years or decades to build up as you move between companies. • There are few startups that grow as fast as we do. You’ll be joining a small team on an exceptional trajectory. Through this comes unique growth, but also unique network: • Expand your network • Our investors include Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Jason Warner (CTO of GitHub), Calvin French-Owen (Segment), Jared Friedman (YC/Scribd), Scott Belsky (Adobe), and Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox) - we can connect you with anyone in tech in the course to expanding the business. You’ll work with engineering leaders across many leading tech companies, often at the highest levels.
Responsibilities
• Your work will involve pioneering our approach to platform engineering, from infrastructure and security to developer experience: • Architecting Resilient Infrastructure: Design, build, and scale the compute platform that powers Meticulous, managing our cloud infrastructure through Terraform with proper change management. Optimise infrastructure costs, balancing performance and spend as we scale. • Own Production Reliability: Improve our monitoring, alerting, incident response, and on-call rotation to ensure that when systems encounter problems, we’re able to respond quickly and effectively to resolve incidents. • Write Production Code Beyond Infrastructure: This role blends platform engineering with general software development work. • Improve Developer Experience: Build internal tooling and automation that improves developer productivity and allows us to accelerate growth • Build the playbook: As our first platform engineer, you’ll establish infrastructure standards and practices for a growing engineering team, maintaining security and compliance standards across our infrastructure.
Benefits
• Significant autonomy in making real architectural decisions for the company's growth as a small team of engineers. • Opportunity to pioneer our approach to platform engineering and contribute towards shaping infrastructure standards and practices within an expanding engineering team, ensuring security and compliance across all systems managed by Terraform with proper change management in place through AWS or other cloud providers.