Platform Engineering at GoCardless
The Platform Engineering team is a unified, globally distributed team. We are currently located in London, Riga, and Lisbon. We work with all other engineering teams to empower them to build, release, run and scale their products.
We operate with a strong focus on both strategic project delivery and operational excellence.
Our work is a balance of:
- Project Delivery: Building new platform components, from initial design to deployment.
- Operational Support: Ensuring the health and stability of our systems through on-call rotations and incident management.
- Business as Usual (BAU): Continuous maintenance, improvements, and support for audits and compliance.
Tech stack and tools:
- Python, Ruby, Golang.
- Terraform.
- Atlantis
- AWS, GCP.
- Kubernetes, GKE.
- Github, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD.
- Grafana, Prometheus.
- Datadog
What excites you:
We use a wide range of technologies, and will never expect you to have experience with all of them. We do hope that you are enthusiastic about the infrastructure space and the impact your work can have on others. To enjoy this work you'll be excited by:
- Building and maintaining automation of new and existing infrastructure.
- Appreciate and believe in building easy-to-understand and maintain tools to solve problems.
- Automating operational tasks to eliminate toil using your software development skills and experience.
- Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats.
- Working closely with software engineers and data scientists.
- Being involved in the technical design of architecture and making technical decisions.
- Cloud-first engineering.
- Ongoing opportunities to further develop your skills.
- Care about working with people who share the same values as you and who will continually push you to grow.
What excites us
- Experience with at least one programming language such as Python, Ruby, Golang etc.
- Experience with IaC tooling, such as Terraform.
- Previous experience with Terraform automation toolings such as Terragrunt or Atlantis will be considered an advantage.
- Experience with cloud computing providers such as AWS or GCP.
- Experience with containerized applications.
- Previous experience with container orchestration such as Kubernetes and GKE will be considered an advantage.
- Experience with CI/CD tooling such as Github, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc.
- Experience working with monitoring tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus, etc.
- Experience with relational databases and other datastores, especially around high availability and performance optimisation
- Awareness of DevOps and Agile principles.
- Fluency in English.
- Excellent teamwork and communication skills.
Base salary range: £78,400 0 - £117,600
Base salary ranges are based on role, job level, location, and market data. Please note that while we strive to offer competitive compensation, our approach is to pay between the minimum and the mid-point of the pay range until performance can be assessed in role. Offers will take into account level of experience, interview assessment, budgets and parity between you and fellow employees at GoCardless doing similar work.
(some of) The good stuff
- Wellbeing - stay healthy with dedicated support and medical cover
- Work away scheme - gives you the option to work away from your country of residence for up to 90 days in any 12 month period
- Adaptive Working - allows you to work flexibly, around your lifestyle
- Equity - all permanently employed GCs get equity to help you make a valuable contribution
- Parental leave - to suit everyone embarking on life's great adventure
- Learning Budget - lead your own development with an annual learning budget
- Time off - generous holiday allowance, + 3 annual volunteer days, + 4 annual business-wide wellness days ('GC Fridays')