Platform Engineer, Spacelift
$80-110k
+ Equity. Salary has the potential to go higher for outstanding candidates
Collaborative infrastructure for software teams
Be an early applicant
Collaborative infrastructure for software teams
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$80-110k
+ Equity. Salary has the potential to go higher for outstanding candidates
101-200 employees
Company mission
Spacelift’s mission is to help DevOps teams manage their infrastructure as code performance for maximum optimization of scaling businesses.
Role
Who you are
- You have passion for building products, love for tech, and interest in the problem space (DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Developer Experience)
- You have 4+ years of experience in backend or platform engineering, with hands-on experience owning production systems
- You have worked in Go, or want to get good at it
- You have built or maintained CI/CD pipelines, observability stacks, or developer-facing tooling
- You have been on-call and improved it - not just responded to pages, but fixed root causes and leveled up the process
- You have worked with an IaC tool - OpenTofu/Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation
- You have excellent communication skills
What the job involves
- We work in product teams (8), a team lead, backend and frontend engineers, a UX/UI designer, and a product manager
- To move fast and make better decisions, we work closely and pair up on problems and issues
- We care about each other. We believe that having Engineers leading the projects and initiatives is the best solution, as our platform is very technical
- Build and own the platform that powers all of Spacelift - from CI/CD to observability to incident response
- Improve our code delivery pipeline: reduce friction, tighten feedback loops, eliminate flakiness
- Strengthen our SLOs and observability posture - give every team better signals
- Sharpen our on-call experience by improving alert quality, response speed, and postmortem hygiene
- Optimise platform cost and scaling behaviour across workloads and regions
- Own developer experience internally: from local dev to debugging production
- Keep learning about our problem space
- You build it, you run it - you will also be part of the on-call rotation
- We move fast. Continuous deployments multiple times a day, we use feature flags heavily (LaunchDarkly)
- Ownership over our work and driving key product decisions
- Working closely as a team, transparent communication, caring about our system, ourselves, and customers
- Everything is an iteration and everything is an experiment
- Cultivate space for innovation through an initiative called Moonshots, allowing developers to form ad-hoc groups to build interesting PoCs
Application process
- 30-minute with our Talent Acquisition Manager
- 30-minute introductory video call with one of our Team Leads
- Take-home exercise with no time limit
- 90-minute live coding interview with two engineers
- 45 minutes behaviour/technical interview with Marcin (Technical Co-Founder)
- Reference check
Our take
As cloud-native development and DevOps continue to gain momentum, it’s also becoming more difficult to manage infrastructure, particularly for distributed teams in scaling companies.
Spacelift’s solution is an Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) platform, which allows for smooth management of multiple complex cloud infrastructures, and automation of manual tasks, which the company claims to result in greatly reduced outages and downtime.
Having launched in 2020, Spacelift has been quick to scale, running teams in California and Warsaw off the back of several rounds of funding. While there’s competition in the space, most notably from HashiCorp (which went public in late 2021), the fact that Spacelift has the likes of DocuSign, Figma, Checkout.com, and Lightspeed as customers shows that it’s doing plenty right.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2025
$51m
SERIES C
Oct 2021
$15m
SERIES B
Total funding: $73.6m
Company benefits
- Friendly and supportive work environment
- Medical, dental, and vision plans for employee and any dependents
- 26 days paid time off annually
- Flexible working hours
- Equity package
- Generous monthly allowance
- Team events in remote locations
- Investment day (aka Google’s 20% rule): in addition to regular projects, we encourage our employees to spend Fridays working on what they think will most benefit Spacelift
- Remote work opportunities for some roles
Company HQ
Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Paweł Hytry
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founded and was Managing Director of FitPass Group from 2014 - 2020, when the company was acquired by Up Group. Previously worked as Managing Director, Central and Eastern Europe at FoodPanda. Founded and served as CEO of corporate event services startup Venueline in 2011.
Marcin Wyszynski
(Co-Founder & Chief R&D Officer)Was a Senior Software Engineer at Deliveroo prior to co-founding Spacelift. Was previously CTO of static analysis startup Codebeat, Production Engineer at Facebook's Dublin team, and worked in Site Reliability Engineering for Google.
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