About the role
We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Database Platform team. You'll help build and operate a global platform that's scalable, reliable, and secure - developing the internal database platform, automation, and tooling that powers hundreds of databases across multiple environments. You'll work on high scale systems used by hundreds of engineers, shaping how we run databases globally.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and evolve our internal cloud based database platform.
- Own the technical roadmap and delivery for the YugabyteDB platform components you are responsible for.
- Drive the design, validation and rollout of YugabyteDB based platform components (PoC pilot production) in collaboration with senior engineers.
- Lead these initiatives end to end, optimising for predictable delivery and measurable outcomes.
- Implement automation for provisioning, upgrades, backups and routine operations for Yugabyte clusters.
- Define the long term automation strategy, including migrations, upgrades, and failure recovery patterns.
- Help embed security and compliance controls (encryption, auth, RBAC, network controls) into Yugabyte platform components.
- Be accountable for the availability, reliability, and security of the systems you own.
- Collaborate with product teams, SREs and DBAs to apply platform guardrails for services adopting Yugabyte.
- Act as the escalation point for your area, leading minor and major incident resolution and post incident reviews.
- Mentor and coach other engineers, support onboarding, and actively reduce single points of failure.
- Participate in on call rotations and provide senior escalation support when required.
- Represent the team in cross tribe or cross company engineering efforts and guilds.
- Participate in interviewing and hiring activities, following best practices and helping maintain a high engineering bar.
What you'll need Essential
- Significant Platform Engineering experience, with demonstrated senior ownership of production platform systems at scale.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP).
- Strong Python development skills (or similar).
- Solid understanding of software engineering principles - writing secure, testable, maintainable code.
- Proficiency with Cloud APIs and DevOps tooling (Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, Teleport).
- Clear communicator who collaborates well across teams.
- Ability to clearly articulate technical trade offs, business impact, and customer value.
- Experience leading or significantly contributing to incident response and post incident improvement.
Highly sought
- Practical experience with distributed databases at scale (YugabyteDB preferred, or CockroachDB/TiDB/Cloud Spanner).
- Deep operational expertise with distributed SQL systems in production.
- Experience or strong interest in implementing migration patterns (CDC/logical replication, verification and rollback) and automation for provisioning, backups and upgrades.
- Demonstrated leadership of migration strategy and execution.
- Experience building Database as a Service platforms or internal developer tooling.
- Experience influencing technical or product roadmaps.
What do we offer
- Wise Benefits
- £87,500 - £111,000 + RSUs