Platform Engineer

Description:

Exciting deeptech start-up seeks a bright, forward thinking mid level Platform Engineer to join their dedicated team. With strong software engineering skills in modern languages ( ideally to include Python and Rust) backed a good academic history, you’ll bring curiosity about scientific computing and care for code quality.

Applications are welcomed from mid level up to Senior level Engineers ( salary commensurate) with knowledge of Cloud computing or HPC job management (such as Slurm), identity and authorization flows (such as OAuth2/OIDC) being highly beneficial.

This cutting edge technology company, focused on optimizing complex engineering systems, seeks a top class Platform Engineer who will confidently work collaboratively with engineers and scientists to have a real say in how the platform layer is designed.

You will ideally bring some of the following skills and experience:

* Strong academic background. Could be Software Engineering, Computer Science, Physics or Scientific Software related.

* Strong software engineering skills in modern languages (Python & Rust ideal).

* Experience designing systems and the APIs between them – services that coordinate work, manage state and handle failure.

* Focus on code quality.

Some of the following should compliment the skills above:

* Experience of Cloud computing or HPC job management ( such as Slurm).

* Identity and authorization flows such as OIDC/OAuth2.

* Deploying containerized services on Linux (such as Podman).

* Infrastructure as code (such as Ansible, OpenTofu).

* Modern Python tooling and packaging.

* Data storage and pipelines, including large simulation results and model serving.

Hybrid working available (3 days office /2 WFH), a very generous base salary dependent on your level of skills and experience and benefits to include Shares, 30 days holiday + time off between Xmas and New Year, Private healthcare, Pension Plan, Life Assurance and much more