Platform Engineer

Who you are

• Practical experience deploying and supporting applications running on Kubernetes
• Experience working with a cloud platform, ideally AWS
• Working knowledge of infrastructure as code, ideally Terraform
• Experience with modern CI/CD tooling
• Comfort scripting in at least one of TypeScript/Node, Python or Go
• A good grounding in Linux, networking and security fundamentals
• Experience troubleshooting production systems and working through operational issues
• Terragrunt or Helm
• GitHub Actions, ArgoCD or Flux
• Datadog, Prometheus or Grafana
• PostgreSQL or MySQL
• Supporting developer-experience or internal-platform improvements
• Working with security tooling or policy-as-code
• We don’t expect every box to be ticked. If you have a strong foundation, practical production experience and the curiosity to keep learning, we’d like to hear from you

What the job involves

• We’re looking for a Platform Engineer to help build and operate the multi-account AWS platforms that power Lendable’s products. You’ll join a Platform Engineering team of eight and work closely with product engineering teams across the business
• This is a hands-on production role where reliability and fast recovery matter. You’ll contribute to the design, delivery and operation of platform capabilities, working with more experienced engineers to make our systems safer, easier to use and more efficient
• We build with self-service in mind: creating paved roads, useful abstractions and sensible guardrails so product teams can move quickly without needing to understand all the underlying complexity
• Build and operate the platform
• Build, configure and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Terragrunt, with support from the wider Platform Engineering team
• Help operate Kubernetes, GitOps and observability tooling in production
• Investigate and resolve platform issues, contributing to incident response and post-incident improvements
• Share an on-call rotation with the team
• Enable safe, fast delivery
• Support progressive rollouts, canary deployments and safe rollbacks
• Contribute to CI/CD and developer tooling that improves the engineering experience
• Partner with engineering teams on infrastructure, database and deployment best practices
• Help improve self-service capabilities and platform adoption across teams
• Build security into everyday engineering
• Apply security practices throughout the software delivery lifecycle
• Contribute to policy-as-code, OIDC-based cloud access, secret scanning and pre-merge controls
• Work with the Platform Engineering and Security teams to improve the safety of our systems
• Keep learning and improving
• Use AI-assisted tooling for code generation, debugging and platform operations
• Share knowledge through documentation, pairing and constructive code reviews
• Build the confidence to take on increasing ownership of platform components over time

The application process

• Intro call with Talent Team (20 min)
• Cognitive Test (15 min)
• Hiring Manager call (30 min)
• Practical platform and solution-design interview (2 hours)
• Culture interview (45 min)

Benefits

• 💸 Best-in-class compensation, including equity
• 🏠 You can work from home every Monday and Friday if you wish - on the other days we all come together IRL to be together, build and exchange ideas (hybrid)
• 🍲 Our in-house chefs prepare fresh, healthy lunches in the office every Tuesday-Thursday
• 🏥 Comprehensive private health insurance (including dental, optometry and general wellbeing)
• 🚗 EV car scheme (Octopus)
• 🚲 Cycle to work scheme
• 🧮 Pension
• 🌴 25 days of annual leave - excluding bank holidays
• 🎊 Multiple opportunities to socialise with your team and the wider company
• 🏋️‍♀️ 50% off gym memberships at Virgin Active and Nuffield (via Vitality health insurance)
• 💻 Equipment provided for you to do your best work!