Platform Engineer
Location: Portugal or UK (Remote)
Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Fixed Term Contract
About YLD:Our goal is to help our clients keep moving forward. We work with them to build the skills and capabilities they need to stay ahead of the competition, and we know our success only happens when they succeed. We’re a team of curious, talented people, and we’re committed to making YLD a place where great people want to work, grow, and stay.
We’re a remote-first consultancy specialising in software engineering, product design, and data. Our teams are based across London, Lisbon, and Porto, and we create digital solutions that continue to deliver value long after our work is done.
About the role:As a Senior Software Engineer at YLD, you’ll be part of a client team building innovative products. We’re looking for someone curious, passionate, driven, and enthusiastic. You should be skilled in problem-solving and experienced in designing scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures. You’re also an effective communicator and a strong team player. Together with your team, you’ll thrive in a fast-paced engineering environment, delivering outstanding results and exciting projects.
Preferred qualifications:- Deep understanding of DevOps principles, practices, and tooling with proven experience implementing them in complex organisations
- Strong expertise in cloud infrastructure, particularly Azure services and architecture patterns
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture, operations, and best practices, including experience deploying and managing multi-cluster environments
- Experience running stateful workloads on Kubernetes, including databases and persistent storage solutions
- Strong understanding of cloud-native principles, patterns, and technologies (12-factor apps, service mesh, GitOps, etc.)
- Experience establishing and measuring key reliability metrics (SLOs, MTTR, MTTI, Error Budgets)
- Knowledge of modern CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies (Blue/Green, Canary, etc.)
- Hands-on experience developing infrastructure-as-code with tools such as Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, Pulumi, CloudFormation, or CDK following GitOps practices
- Strong understanding of cloud security best practices, compliance requirements, and security compliance frameworks
- Experience implementing automated testing strategies for infrastructure and deployment pipelines
- Strong experience coding, working with APIs, and automating tasks in Python
- Good knowledge of routing protocols (e.g., BGP, OSPF) and high-availability design patterns
- Hands-on experience working with virtual cloud firewall appliances such as CheckPoint or Cisco
- Hands-on experience with software engineering best practices: unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, and excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills
- Good understanding of technology stacks from networks through to applications
- Strong experience working in a fast-paced, open-source, Linux-focused environment
- Experience working in an agile methodology; comfortable with code reviews and pairing
- Ability to adapt, change, and grow quickly as the organisation scales
- Self-motivated, proactive and always looking for ways to improve and develop yourself;
- A good communicator, both in writing and verbally. You’ll be able to explain technical ideas and concepts in business-friendly language;
- Detail-oriented;
- Problem-solving skills that balance innovation with pragmatic technology choices to solve business needs;
- Used to working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment;
- Analytical and problem-solving-oriented;
- A genuine believer in diversity and fairness.
- Company Private Health Care
- Enhanced fully paid maternity and paternity leave for up to 6 months
- 25 days annual holiday (excluding Public Holidays)
- €2000 annual allowance for Training/Conferences
- €300 annual allowance for additional hardware
- Mental Health support: access to Spill app
- Meditation/Sleep support: Headspace or Calm app subscription
- Bonus (depending on Company performance and results)
- Company laptop
- Generous referral schemes
- 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30/45 mins)
- Technical Interview with our Senior Developers (1h30)
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We live and breathe our values, and know you will too:- Growing every day
- Including everyone
- Relationships built on honesty and ethics
- Inspiring solutions
- Winning together
We’re an equal opportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds. We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability status. We also offer a remote-first working environment, meaning that flexible working and work-life balance come as standard for all employees.
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What We Do
With offices in London, Lisbon, and Porto, YLD is a product design and software engineering consultancy specialising in customer experience and disruptive technologies. We were among the first adopters of innovative technologies like Node.js, React.js, React Native, Kubernetes, and GraphQL, which are now staples for many businesses. YLD was also an early adopter of Design Systems as a service and founded Design Systems London, a non-profit community focused on design and product. We leave your teams and tech in a better space by curating bespoke teams of cross-functional experts in software engineering, architecture, DevOps, delivery, design, product and data science to work alongside your teams through close collaboration and, where needed, pair programming or technical training. We drive rapid iteration towards key business objectives, vision and chosen metrics, creating a long-standing product culture and delivery capability in each piece of work. We’ve helped companies like Bulb, Uphold, NewDay, GoDaddy, CondeNast, and many others, achieve technical product excellence. As a result, we enable organisations, regardless of industry, to become their most successful by creating and nurturing a culture that embraces experimentation and learning that lasts beyond the partnership. We are committed to the Open Source community, with almost 10,000 contributions across 500 open source projects. Collective contributions result in more robust, innovative and faster solutions, allowing open source communities to review the code and propose improvements that increase security and reliability. We are also actively engaged in numerous engineering and design communities, supporting and organising the likes of ReactJS Girls and Design Systems London with both online and in-person events and conferences
