Platform Engineer

Who are Tyk, and what do we do?
The Tyk API Management platform is helping to drive the connected world and power new products and services. We’re changing the way that organisations connect any number of their systems and services. Whether internal, external, public or highly encrypted systems, Tyk helps businesses drive value across the retail, finance, telecoms, healthcare, or media industries (to name just a few!) 

If you’ve banked online, used an app to check the news, or perhaps even driven a connected car, API’s, and by extension, Tyk, make that possible. Founded in 2015 with offices in London - UK, London - Ontario, Atlanta and Singapore, we have many thousands of users of our B2B platform across the globe. Brands using Tyk range from Lotte, Bell, T Mobile, to RBS, Capital One and Vinci. We have a varied user base hailing from every continent – even Antarctica.

Our Mission

Tyk is on a mission to connect every system in the world. We’ve started by building an API Management platform.

Total flexibility, default remote, radical responsibility

We offer unlimited paid holidays and remote working from anywhere in the world, for everyone, Why? Tyk was founded on the principle of offering flexibility and autonomy to our employees, we believe this allows our employees to achieve their best results. It also means we can build the best possible team, location and working hours are no barrier. 

If this sounds like an environment that you believe could work for you then read on to find out more.

The role:

We’re seeking a self-driven Platform Engineer to join our Non-Functionals team as the sole engineer owning release engineering. You’ll need strong software engineering foundations in Go and the autonomy to drive platform and tooling initiatives from conception to delivery with minimal oversight.

This role demands someone who proactively identifies problems, builds production-grade solutions, and champions DevOps practices across the organization. You’ll build the release pipelines, platform tooling, and automation that enable our engineering teams to ship reliably and efficiently for both SaaS and on-premises environments.

• Designing, building, and operating release pipelines and infrastructure using GoReleaser and GitHub Actions—making technical decisions independently and being accountable for outcomes.
• Writing production-quality Go code to build platform engineering tools and automation, applying software engineering best practices (unit testing, code reviews, TDD, SOLID principles).
• Identifying opportunities to improve CI/CD, release engineering, and platform capabilities before they become urgent problems—driving improvements from idea to implementation.
• Creating robust automation for Kubernetes, AWS, and DigitalOcean infrastructure with reliability and observability built-in; writing IaC (Terraform, Helm) with production-code rigor.
• Developing and maintaining packaging systems (RPM, DEB) and container image build pipelines with security compliance (FIPS, signed artifacts); managing package repositories (DockerHub, Packagecloud, ECR).
• Identifying and implementing AI-assisted automation opportunities across CI/CD and infrastructure operations with strong guardrails, auditability, and measurable impact on toil reduction.
• Collaborating with QA to design comprehensive test frameworks that integrate throughout the CI/CD pipeline.
• Embedding DevOps culture and platform engineering best practices into product squads through a consultative approach.
• Supporting ISO 27001/SOC2 audits through automated compliance controls; partnering with Security and SRE teams to ensure AI-enabled workflows meet governance requirements.
• Staying current with release engineering trends and bringing forward recommendations for tooling and process improvements.

• Demonstrable software development background, particularly using Go as a primary language.
• Proven track record as a strong individual contributor who takes ownership, drives initiatives independently, and delivers results with minimal supervision.
• Experience designing, building, and operating production-grade platform tooling and release engineering systems.
• Release engineering, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation at scale.
• Operating Kubernetes in production environments.
• Packaging and distribution systems for Linux (RPM, DEB) and containers.
• Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean, or similar).
• Using AI-assisted tooling to improve engineering throughput while maintaining delivery stability.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams (Product, QA, Security, SRE).
• Supporting compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC2, or similar).
• Driving DevOps transformation and embedding platform engineering best practices across teams.
• Distributed systems and reliability principles.
• Strong technical decision-making with confidence to make trade-offs and justify choices.

Skills

• Professional Go development including CGO on Linux and relevant toolchain.
• GitHub Actions for CI/CD pipeline development.
• Packaging systems: RPM, DEB, and container image build processes.
• Configuration management: Ansible, cloud-init.
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Helm.
• Container orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker, ECS, Fargate.
• Cloud platforms: AWS (required), Azure/GCP beneficial.
• Database technologies: MongoDB, Redis, or similar.
• Software engineering best practices: unit testing, code reviews, TDD, SOLID principles.
• Understanding of AI/LLM capabilities and limitations in automation contexts.
• Implementing security controls and guardrails for AI-enabled workflows.
• Exceptional self-management and prioritization with ability to balance competing demands.
• Proactive problem-solving mindset with ability to work autonomously and make technical decisions independently.
• Strong cross-team collaboration and stakeholder management.
• Excellent communication across various technical levels.
• Vocal and opinionated contributor who brings ideas, challenges the status quo, and advocates for technical excellence.
• Security-first development mindset with understanding of secure software supply chain practices.

Nice to have

• Python or TypeScript proficiency.
• Observability stacks: Prometheus, Grafana, distributed tracing, logging systems.
• Testing frameworks and infrastructure at scale (performance testing, chaos engineering).
• Designing and operating production-scale Kubernetes clusters.
• Sole or primary technical ownership of critical systems or infrastructure.
• SRE principles and practices (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets).
• API management or API gateway experience.
• Open source contributions.
• Building or integrating AI-assisted developer/ops workflows with evaluation, monitoring, and governance.
• Kubernetes certifications (CKA/CKAD/CKS).
• Incident management and post-incident analysis.
• Bare metal or multi-cloud infrastructure experience.

Here’s why you should join us:

• Everyone has unlimited paid holidays. 
• We have total flexibility in hours, as we believe creativity flows better when our people are given freedom to decide when they are most productive. Everyone is unique after all.
• Employee share scheme
• Generous maternity and paternity leave
• Volunteering Days
• Company retreats
• Employee Wellbeing platform

We all share the same vision - we value authenticity, respect, responsibility, independence, honesty, diversity and inclusion and most importantly treating others how you wish to be treated. We look for like-minded people who bring their personalities to work everyday, strive to achieve their personal goals and who are willing to challenge the way we do things, why? - to make what we do even better!

Our values tell the story of Tyk - here’s how:

• It’s ok to screw up! 

We’ve found that it’s often the ‘stupid’ or unexpected ideas that turn out to be the successful ones - so try it, at least we can say we have!

• The only stupid idea, is the untested one! 

It’s in our DNA - starting a business with founders 12 hours apart, giving our gateway away for free - sure, we did that, and we’d do it again!

• Trust starts with you - make it count! 

Trust is a two-way street - instil it from day one!

• Assume best intent! 

We have each other’s back - we’re all on the same team. Think before you speak or act. 

• Make things better! 

Always try to leave things better than when you found them - change is constant, inevitable and embraced! Be that change we want to see.

What’s it like to work here?! check it out: https://tyk.io/worklife/

Tyk is an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

You can see more about us here https://tyk.io