Senior Software Engineer, Multiverse
Platform Engineer
3+ days a week in office (Paddington, London)
Upskilling platform for AI and tech adoption
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Upskilling platform for AI and tech adoption
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
3+ days a week in office (Paddington, London)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To equip the workforce to win in the AI era.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who started their career writing software and moved into infrastructure to solve harder, more foundational problems
- You should be genuinely curious about how AI is reshaping software development, comfortable adopting new tools as they emerge, and excited about the idea that infrastructure and platform work will look meaningfully different in two years than it does today
- Software Fundamentals: You have 5+ years of professional experience, primarily as a software engineer, before gravitating to infrastructure. You write clean, tested, modular code in Python, TypeScript, or Go
- Deep AWS & Terraform Expertise: You have designed and operated production workloads on AWS (ECS, Lambda, VPC, IAM) and maintain Terraform modules as a core part of your workflow
- CI/CD Fluency: You have hands-on experience building deployment pipelines and understand the principles of reliable, repeatable delivery
- You are excited about the potential of AI-assisted development to enhance velocity
- You have a genuine interest in the engineering challenges of AI systems: context management, tool use, and making AI integrations reliable
- Drivers, Not Passengers: You take extreme ownership of your work, driving outcomes end-to-end while bringing others along on the journey
- Be Decisive, Even in Ambiguity: You act with speed and treat ambiguity as an opportunity to shape outcomes. You can explain complex infrastructure trade-offs to any audience
Desirable
- Platform Maturity: You have a track record of building internal developer platforms (e.g. Backstage) or self-service tooling that transformed how product teams interact with infrastructure
- Architectural Evolution: You have successfully led the migration or refactoring of monolithic systems into modular, well-bounded services
- Modern Observability: You have deep experience with platforms such as Datadog, Grafana, Mimir, New Relic, or OpenTelemetry, and you know how to move beyond basic metrics to actionable operational intelligence
- Infrastructure for GenAI: You have a documented interest in the infrastructure requirements of LLM-powered applications, for example, around vector databases, GPU orchestration, or Model Context Protocols (MCPs)
- Distributed Systems: You are comfortable with containerisation (Kubernetes, Docker, ECS), serverless patterns, and event-driven architectures or data infrastructure patterns
What the job involves
- You will design the systems, write the Terraform, and harden the pipelines that empower every other team to ship at high velocity
- Treat Platform as a Product. Move beyond "managing servers" to evolve our Internal Developer Platform alongside Infrastructure, DevEx, and Security teams
- Customer Obsession: Treat internal engineers as your customers, identifying pain points, building self-service capabilities, and measuring adoption to solve for true customer value
- Abstract Complexity: Develop platform APIs and connectors that handle the heavy lifting, enabling engineers to focus entirely on product delivery
- Architect a future-proof Cloud Estate. You will own and evolve our production AWS infrastructure using Terraform. We treat infrastructure as software, with version control, code review, and automated testing. You will lead the way in provisioning the specialised infrastructure required for GenAI workloads, such as vector databases and Model Context Protocols (MCPs)
- At Multiverse, AI is our engine, not an add-on. We want every engineer to use AI tooling as a core part of how they work, not as an experiment or a side interest. That means using AI-assisted development tools (Claude, Cursor, Gemini, etc.) daily to write, review, and debug code faster. It means reaching for an LLM before reaching for Stack Overflow. It means being willing to prototype internal automations that save the team hours, not just yourself
- Drive Operational Intelligence. You will move beyond noisy alerts to build meaningful observability. You will empower squads to use operational data to improve stability and performance, fostering a culture of "observability as a first-class concern" across your sphere of influence
- Be a Multiplier. As a Senior SWE, you are a mentor and coach to others, identifying opportunities that elevate learning and impact not just as an individual but that raise productivity and impact for everyone
- What Your First 6 Months Look Like
- Months 1-2: Get to know the team and infrastructure landscape. Ship your first Terraform module and contribute to our observability instrumentation
- Months 3-4: Own the observability standardisation effort. Improve deployment pipelines and begin implementing AI-augmented security and developer tools
- Months 5-6: Drive "Cloud Excellence" initiatives, optimizing for stability and cost. You are a trusted voice in architectural discussions and a go-to partner for product teams
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Multiverse is on a mission to equip the workforce to win in the AI era. That means helping people at all stages of their career gain the tech, data, and leadership skills needed to thrive in an age of rapid automation and AI transformation.
Multiverse positions itself as the upskilling platform for AI and tech adoption, partnering with over 1,500 companies across the UK and US (including Google and Facebook) to deliver a new kind of learning. This approach is grounded in applied, work-based training designed to deliver measurable outcomes. And these apprenticeships are open to individuals of any age or career stage and focus on critical capabilities in AI, data, and tech skills.
And the impact is real. Multiverse learners have driven over $2B in ROI for their employers by directly applying their skills to improve productivity and performance. The company's success is not only reflected in its outcomes, but also in recognition, having secured significant funding in 2022, bringing its post-money valuation to $1.7B and cementing its status as the UK's first EdTech unicorn.
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Meet the team
70 people
Gary, Chief Learning Officer
Our mission
Unlocking economic opportunity and potential for individuals and orgs by closing skill gaps through measured, applied, guided and equitable learning.Insights
58% female employees
96% employee growth in 12 months
Trustpilot (3.5)
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"Whether that's the content in the course you are teaching of which you're developing a deeper understanding, weekly CPD (continuous professional..."
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2022
$220m
SERIES D
Sep 2021
$130m
SERIES C
Total funding: $414m
Company benefits
- Working from abroad
- Free access to Wellhub's Starter, Basic and Bronze plans (free gym + more)
- M-Powered long weekend to refresh and recharge
- A focus on wellbeing with access to Spill therapy support and Employee Assistance Programme
- 24 days holiday, 3 winter shutdown days plus 1 life event day and 2 volunteer days
- Full Medical Insurance coverage through Bupa, and your medical history is disregarded
- Life Insurance coverage through AIG. This benefit pays out 3x your base salary to your beneficiaries
- Our Cycle to Work scheme enables bike ownership with up to 42% savings
- Tech scheme: you can purchase new electronics, including accessories, up to £1,000, and spread the cost through 12 interest-free monthly repayments
- Workplace Nursery benefit is provided by Enjoy Benefits and is there to help employees with the cost of childcare at a nursery setting
Company values
- Solve for Customer Value
- Drivers, not Passengers
- Be Decisive, even in Ambiguity
- AI to Solve Problems
Company HQ
Paddington, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Euan Blair
(Founder & CEO)Prior to founding Multiverse, Euan was the UK CEO of Sarina Russo Group, an employment and training provider with more than 1,500 staff worldwide and a turnover exceeding £100 million.
People progressing
Peppa joined Multiverse in 2019 as a Senior Account Executive. Since then, they have held a number of roles and now serve as the Senior VP/GTM.
People breakdown
13%
11%
6%
68%
2%
Asian
Black or African American
Multiracial / Multiethnic
White
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Last updated on 10 September 2024
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Multiverse
Serena Vaughan (Career Mobility Lead)
- We want to be a leader in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI), so we’re working hard to drive the change we want to see in the world, inside Multiverse.
- Everything we do in the DEI space is undertaken with the goal of being representative of the geographies in which we operate – and our apprentice community. Gender diversity has been a long-term challenge for the tech world. We're proud that 55% of our UK Team identify as women, this increases to 64% of our Global Leadership Team (director level and above). We're also proud of our thriving LGBTQQIAAP community, comprising 11% of our UK Team.
- We're committed to improving the diversity of our workforce, at all levels. We continue to invest in early talent through our in-house apprenticeship scheme – something we know is a fantastic route into our organization for exceptional talent from a diversity of backgrounds.
- Last year we identified improving the diversity of our Global Leadership Team (director level+) internally as an area of focus. Steps that we took included introducing robust DEI monitoring processes, rolling out Inclusive Recruitment Training to all staff involved in the hiring, and launching our first internal, Global Leadership Accelerator program.
- We’re proud that in the last 12 months, the representation of colleagues from ethnic minority backgrounds at director+ levels, globally, has increased from 6% to 19%. This is good progress but we still have work to do and are committed to building a leadership team that is representative of our colleagues and of the communities we serve.
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