Platform Engineer

• Platform & Infrastructure Engineering: Enhancing and maintaining our foundational tools and systems. • Working hands-on with our Kubernetes clusters, AWS infrastructure, and configuration management using Terraform. • Integrating and managing various open-source components to provide robust, scalable primitives for our engineering teams. • Software & Backend Engineering: Building and maintaining the services that abstract and orchestrate our infrastructure. • Designing and implementing backend services (APIs, controllers, etc.) that provide a simplified, self-service experience for other engineers. • Developing software for complex projects like infrastructure migrations, high-scale traffic management, or security tooling. • We rely heavily on the following tools and technologies, please note direct experience in these technologies is not required and our interview process can be completed in any language: • Go to write our application code (there’s an excellent interactive Go tutorial here), in platform we build services to manage parts of the platform • Kubernetes most workloads we run are on Kubernetes with this team being responsible for the underlying cluster's management • AWS and GCP whilst our primary platform is in AWS our footprint in GCP is continually growing and we are increasing our maturity across both of these platforms • Terraform is primarily how we manage any resources deployed into the cloud • Envoy Proxy for our RPC service mesh • 🤩We’d love to hear from you if… • To succeed in this role, you will need a strong background in both modern platform tooling and practical software development. • Software Engineering Foundation: You have significant professional experience in software engineering, demonstrated by writing, testing, and deploying robust backend services using strongly typed languages. • Cloud & Container Experience: You have hands-on experience working with AWS and/or GCP, and you are proficient with Kubernetes. • Automation & Infrastructure as Code: You are naturally inclined to solve problems through automation and have experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform). • System Curiosity: You are deeply curious about systems, enjoy diving deep to investigate complex issues, and understand how modern distributed applications fail and scale. • Platform Mindset: You'd be excited to build a platform that enables success for everyone at Monzo, focusing on reliability, performance, and developer experience. • Comfort with Ambiguity: You're comfortable working in a fast-paced team that deals with ambiguity and evolving requirements. • We're on the look out for L40 & L50 Platform Engineers at the moment, you can read more in our Engineering Progression Framework • The Interview Process: • Our interview process involves three main stages: • Take home task or pair coding exercise • Final interview: including a system design and a behavioural interview • Our average process takes around 4 weeks but we will always work around your availability. • One of our engineers has written a detailed blog on their experience through this process, for extra details, hints and tips please see here.