Platform Engineer
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At a glance
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Location
- Ireland · Remote within Ireland
- Workplace
- Remote
- Salary
- €90k-120k/year (EUR)
- Category
- DevOps
What you'll be doing
Join a team bridging gaps between services, focusing on distributed systems, platform infrastructure, backend services, and production environments. Tackle scaling, reliability, cost optimization, and complex identity flows. Ideal for engineers comfortable with ambiguity and pragmatic problem-solving.
- Work on distributed systems operating at scale
- Improve platform reliability and performance
- Support AWS infrastructure and architecture
- Investigate production incidents
- Optimise database performance and queries
- Work on billing systems and Stripe integrations
- Support identity and authentication systems, including SAML and SCIM
- Drive platform efficiency and cost optimisation
Key requirements
Must-have
- Experience working on distributed systems in production
- Comfort debugging across infrastructure, databases, and application code
- Strong AWS fundamentals
- Interest in solving reliability and performance problems
- Sound engineering judgement
- Ability to make progress in ambiguous situations
Nice-to-have
- Python experience
- Strong database experience
Role signals
- Technical focus
- platform engineering, distributed systems, reliability, infrastructure
- Hands-on vs management
- Hands-on
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Full job description
Overview
This team works across the gaps between services, stepping in when billing systems need to scale, identity flows become more complex, infrastructure costs creep up, or platform reliability becomes a competitive advantage.
You'll work across distributed systems, platform infrastructure, backend services and production environments. Some problems will be obvious. Most won't.
This is not a role for someone who needs a well-defined backlog. It suits an engineer who is curious, pragmatic and comfortable working through ambiguity.
What You'll Be Doing
- Working on distributed systems operating at scale
- Improving platform reliability and performance
- Supporting AWS infrastructure and architecture
- Investigating production incidents
- Optimising database performance and queries
- Working on billing systems and Stripe integrations
- Supporting identity and authentication systems, including SAML and SCIM
- Driving platform efficiency and cost optimisation
What You'll Need to Succeed
- You think of yourself as a software engineer first
- You've spent time working on distributed systems in production
- You're comfortable debugging across infrastructure, databases and application code
- You have strong AWS fundamentals
- You enjoy solving reliability and performance problems
- You care more about building the right solution than the perfect solution
- Python experience would be useful
- Strong database experience would be even better
- Sound engineering judgement and the ability to make progress when there isn't an obvious answer
What's In It for You
- Remote working
- Permanent position
- Salary of EUR 90,000 - 120,000 / Year
Interview prep pack
Grounded in this listing. Use it to prepare examples before you apply.
Your interview focus
Based on this listing, the Platform Engineer role focuses on improving reliability, performance, and efficiency across distributed systems and AWS infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on pragmatic problem-solving and adaptability in ambiguous situations.
- Hands-on distributed systems experience·High
- AWS infrastructure expertise·High
- Pragmatic problem-solving in ambiguity·High
- Database optimization skills·Medium
Only have 30 minutes?
Follow a focused preparation plan based on this job.
Start 30-minute prep
Your 30-minute plan
Review Distributed Systems Projects
0–7 minList and summarize your most relevant distributed systems work, focusing on reliability and performance improvements.
Refresh AWS and Database Knowledge
7–14 minRevisit key AWS services, architecture patterns, and database optimization techniques you've used.
Prepare Incident Response Stories
14–20 minSelect 1-2 incidents where you debugged complex issues across the stack and outline your approach.
Map Experience to Platform Components
20–25 minIdentify your experience with identity/authentication and billing systems, or plan how to discuss learning new integrations.
Draft Questions for the Interviewer
25–30 minChoose 2-3 questions from the list to ask about the team's challenges, processes, and priorities.
Talking points
, 6 itemsExperience with Distributed Systems in Production
Demonstrate your ability to design, operate, and troubleshoot large-scale systems, as this is central to the role.
AWS Fundamentals and Infrastructure Support
Showcase your hands-on experience with AWS services and how you've supported or optimized cloud environments.
Debugging Across the Stack
Prepare examples where you diagnosed and resolved issues spanning infrastructure, databases, and application code.
Database Performance Optimization
Highlight situations where you improved query efficiency or resolved bottlenecks in production databases.
Handling Ambiguity and Pragmatic Problem-Solving
Share stories where you made progress without clear requirements, demonstrating sound engineering judgment.
Supporting Identity, Authentication, and Billing Integrations
Discuss your experience with systems like SAML, SCIM, or Stripe, as these are mentioned as part of the platform.
What to research
, 5 itemsDistributed Systems at Scale
Review your experience with designing, operating, and troubleshooting distributed systems, focusing on reliability and performance.
AWS Infrastructure and Cost Optimization
Refresh your knowledge of AWS services, architecture best practices, and strategies for cost and performance optimization.
Database Query Optimization
Prepare examples of how you have improved database performance, including query tuning and schema design.
Incident Response and Debugging
Think through past incidents you have investigated, especially those requiring cross-stack debugging.
Identity and Billing Integrations
Review any experience with authentication protocols (SAML, SCIM) and payment systems (Stripe), or be ready to discuss how you would approach learning them.
Questions to ask
, 6 itemsWhat are the biggest reliability or performance challenges currently facing the platform?
Why ask this? To understand the team's priorities and where your skills can have the most impact.
How does the team approach incident response and post-mortems?
Why ask this? To gauge the maturity of operational processes and learning culture.
What AWS services and tools are most critical to your infrastructure?
Why ask this? To clarify the technical environment and where to focus your expertise.
How is work prioritized when requirements are ambiguous or evolving?
Why ask this? To assess how ambiguity is managed and how you would fit into the workflow.
What opportunities exist for driving platform efficiency or cost optimization?
Why ask this? To identify areas where you can contribute to business value.
How does the team collaborate across services, especially for cross-cutting concerns like identity or billing?
Why ask this? To understand collaboration patterns and integration challenges.
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