Senior Platform Engineer, Spendesk

• A strong individual contributor with a platform mindset—someone who enjoys solving developer pain with elegant, scalable systems and takes pride in enabling others to move faster
• Youʼre a fit for this role if you have:
• 7+ years of engineering experience, with a strong track record in DevOps, infrastructure, or platform roles supporting multiple engineering teams
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments, including designing and debugging containerized services at scale
• Fluency in Go (Golang) OR Typescript, youʼve built tooling, services, or operators that run reliably in production
• Proficiency with AWS and a solid understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform or a similar tool
• Experience building internal tooling or platforms used across multiple teams —bonus if youʼve owned adoption, documentation, or support
• A bias for automation, you replace playbooks with code and eliminate toil wherever possible
• A product mindset, you empathize with your users (other developers), gather feedback, and treat internal systems like customer-facing products
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, clear documentation and async updates are second nature to you
• A love for clean abstractions, scalable systems, and improving developer workflows
• Fluent in English (spoken and written) — itʼs our business language

Desirable

• The Infrastructure team at Spendesk builds the tools, systems, and internal products that empower every engineering team to move faster and more safely
• We are transforming traditional infrastructure into a developer-facing platform focused on enablement, automation, and scalability
• We own CI/CD platform (ArgoCD and Github Actions), secrets management, observability tooling, infrastructure provisioning, and developer workflows
• Our work is foundational to the productivity and reliability of the entire product organization
• As a Senior Platform Engineer, youʼll help define and deliver the next generation of internal tooling and infrastructure at Spendesk
• Youʼll be hands-on in designing scalable systems, collaborating with engineering peers, and productizing shared services used by dozens of engineers across the company
• As a Senior Platform Engineer at Spendesk, youʼll help shape the foundation that every engineering team builds on. Youʼll work hands-on with Kubernetes, Go, and AWS to create scalable, reliable, and developer-friendly systems that power our internal platform
• Hereʼs how youʼll make an impact:
• Design, build, and maintain core infrastructure services including provisioning workflows, service orchestration, and deployment automation using Kubernetes, Go, and cloud-native tools
• Own and evolve our CI/CD platform, improving performance, reliability, and usability, with a focus on fast feedback, secure secrets handling, and smooth rollback support
• Develop service scaffolding and templates that allow product teams to spin up production-ready services in minutes with consistent tooling, observability, and security baked in
• Lead the technical rollout of our Service Orchestrator, a new internal product aimed at simplifying infrastructure provisioning across squads
• Improve our observability tooling and incident response workflows, building custom dashboards and refining alerting systems to reduce noise and improve reliability
• Partner closely with product engineers and EMs to identify recurring friction in development workflows and turn those into reusable, documented platform solutions
• Take technical ownership of key platform domains, such as secrets management, infrastructure as code, monitoring pipelines, or cost visibility tooling
• Champion internal adoption of platform capabilities by writing excellent documentation, creating onboarding guides, and supporting team usage through async support and office hours
• Participate in our on-call rotation, using that insight to continuously reduce toil through automation, self-healing systems, and smarter alert routing