Senior Platform Engineer

Key areas of responsibility

• Designing, building, and maintaining core platform infrastructure and services.
• Developing and evolving internal developer platform (IDP) capabilities, including self-service provisioning and deployment workflows.
• Designing and supporting API-first architectures to enable interoperability between systems, services, and external partners.
• Building and optimising CI/CD pipelines to support consistent, secure, and efficient software delivery.
• Enabling integration patterns across distributed systems, including event-driven architectures and service-based communication.
• Contributing to modular platform capabilities that allow teams to compose and extend functionality.
• Collaborating Software, Infra, ML, IT, Product, QA, and Security teams to ensure the platform meets real-world engineering needs.
• Implementing infrastructure-as-code and automation to ensure repeatability, scalability, and reliability.
• Embedding security, compliance, and best practices into the platform by design.
• Contributing to platform standards, patterns, and reusable components to drive consistency across teams.
• Improving observability, monitoring, and alerting capabilities across systems and services.
• Supporting onboarding of teams to the platform and enabling adoption through documentation and guidance.
• Continuously identifying opportunities to improve developer experience, reducing friction and cognitive load.

Key skills, experience and behaviours

• Strong experience building and operating cloud-based platforms.
• Deep understanding of platform engineering principles, including infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, system design, and service integration.
• Experience designing and working with APIs and building integration layers between systems.
• Experience with tools such as Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and modern CI/CD platforms.
• Experience with cloud and bare-metal deployments.
• Understanding of modular platform design and composable architectures.
• Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g. logging, metrics, tracing) and building reliable systems.
• Knowledge of secure-by-design and zero-trust principles.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals (e.g. Python, Go, or similar) to build platform tooling and automation.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams and contributing to shared technical outcomes.

• Mission-Focused: You care about enabling others to do their best work and delivering meaningful outcomes.
• Relentless: You take ownership and see problems through to resolution.
• Collaborative: You work effectively across teams, building trust and shared understanding.
• Quality-Driven: You take pride in building robust, scalable, and maintainable systems.
• Pragmatic: You focus on solutions that work in practice, not just in theory.
• Curious & Adaptive: You continuously learn, improve, and embrace new approaches where they add value - particularly in fast-moving areas like AI and platform integration.

Working at Rowden