Platform Engineer

Pydantic Services Inc.; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 90,000

Job description

As a Platform Engineer, you'll drive the evolution of our cloud infrastructure and developer experience. You'll join a small but growing team responsible for building scalable, reliable systems that power our developer platform and tooling. This role offers significant autonomy to shape our technical foundation as we expand from our current team of 15 engineers to support our ambitious growth plans.

What you will do

• Grow SaaS offering, e.g. by standing up new regions, rightsizing infrastructure and shaping up our security posture
• Build out our on-premises offering by maintaining our Helm charts and working with enterprise customers to deploy and maintain our software
• Optimize our internal developer experience by improving our CI/CD pipelines, test environments and developer tooling
• Improve our security measures, including threat detection and regular vulnerability assessments
• Grow a team that aligns with the company's vision and culture

Who You Are

We expect a candidate for this position to have experience in:

• Managing infrastructure via IaC (we use Pulumi with TypeScript)
• Experience working and managing relational databases (we use postgres), e.g orchestrating migrations, managing data in test environments, optimization and monitoring
• GitHub and GitHub Actions, including complex workflows
• Developer level knowledge in at least one of Python, Rust or TypeScript

Nice to haves but not required:

• Experience with Pulumi
• Familiarity with observability platforms, in particular OpenTelemetry
• Experience with more than one of Python, Rust and TypeScript
• Experience with Postgres
• Familiarity with GKE
• A history of contributing to and working with Open Source Software

Some non-technical requirements:

• Willing to join our on-call rota, roughly 1 week every 10
• Live and work in a timezone between PT (UTC-8) and CET (UTC+1)
• Able to travel to EU, UK and US up to 3 times a year to join our off-sites

Our current stack consists of:

• GitHub for version control
• Pulumi (TypeScript) for infrastructure as code (IaC)
• Redis for caching and buffering
• A mix of Rust and Python for backend services
• React (TypeScript) for our frontend

About Us

Pydantic is the data validation library that powers modern Python development - 300 million downloads per month, used by virtually every tech company you've heard of. Why? Because we obsess over developer experience and write code we'd actually want to use ourselves.

We're applying that same engineering mindset to Logfire , our observability platform built for today's development reality: AI workloads, multi-language environments, and cloud infrastructure that's designed to be straightforward to set up and maintain.

We build with technologies developers actually want to work with:

• OpenTelemetry for standardized instrumentation
• SQL for intuitive querying (no proprietary query language to learn)
• Rust, Python, and TypeScript for performance and productivity
• Postgres, DataFusion, and object storage for scalable backends

Unlike other companies that pay lip service to open source, we commit over 20% of our engineering team to maintaining and expanding our open source ecosystem . This includes the core Pydantic library and PydanticAI - our rapidly growing framework that's becoming the standard for AI application development. We're signatories of the open source pledge and build on open standards because we believe in interoperability, not lock-in. Use our OpenTelemetry-based SDK with any compatible backend - we're confident you'll choose us on merit.

We're backed by Sequoia Capital and run a fully remote team across multiple time zones (with regular in-person offsites - next one's this May).

Join our team of exceptional engineers who value substance over hype, practical approaches over perfectionism, and meaningful progress over busyness. We've built a culture that balances technical ambition with sustainable practices—minimal meetings and respect for your expertise and time. We're creating tools that genuinely improve developers' lives, and we're looking for thoughtful contributors who share our commitment to quality and our passion for elegant solutions.

• Compensation: Competitive salary and stock options
• Truly Remote: Work from anywhere within our timezone range - no office requirements ever
• Global & Diverse: Join a multi-cultural team of 8+ nationalities
• Impact: Direct influence on tools used by millions of developers worldwide
• Focus on Growth: Regular opportunities for learning and professional development
• Team Gatherings: Connect with the team at our regular international off-sites
• Healthcare: Comprehensive health coverage for you and your dependents
• Flexible Hours: Work when you're most productive
• Equipment: Budget for your home office setup
• ️Work-Life Balance: flexible working hours and 33 days PTO no matter where you live (including public holidays, which you can choose to take or not)

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