Senior Software Engineer

Platform Engineering is reshaping how enterprises build and run their cloud-native setups, and Humanitec is leading this transformation. Our mission is to help teams build Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) that unlock true developer self-service.

This is where you come in.

With our next-generation Platform Orchestrator successfully launched, we are focused on scaling our new product line, continuously incorporating learnings and feedback from customers as well as prospects. We’re looking for people who want to help us build the future of our product, shaping the roadmap, and defining what Platform Engineering looks like in the years ahead.

The product engineering team at Humanitec is responsible for building and scaling our category-defining product, the Platform Orchestrator. As an engineer on this team, you will share ownership of how our products are built and evolve, contributing to our long-term vision and the products that help to realize it. What’s more, the role includes a customer-facing aspect where you will interact regularly with customers using our products in real-world scenarios.

We work across a modern, diverse stack, including:

• Go – our primary server-side language, as well as our command-line interface (CLI)

• IAC (Terraform & OpenTofu) – a core aspect of our “v2” product

• React / TypeScript – for our web application

• Kubernetes – our product runs on many cloud providers, from our core SaaS offering (GCP) to customers’ infra (all major cloud providers, and more)

• Robot Framework, Playwright, … – for tests, which support our ability to execute quickly and with confidence

To thrive in this role, you must be comfortable with the uncertainty and pace of a start-up: shipping and iterating constantly, rolling up your sleeves to understand and debug customer issues, experimenting and working with AI tools, contributing to a frequently evolving roadmap, and picking up work across our stack. Our focus is always on making an impact and creating value for customers. To do that, we value investing the time to write design documents for our work, reviewing docs and pull requests asynchronously, and recognize that most engineers are more productive focused at their desk than on a video call.

Humanitec is an all-remote company. Our team works together closely to accomplish big things. We value the intersection of humility, drive, and intelligence. In this fully remote role, you’ll be given substantial autonomy in your work and consistent, empathetic feedback on your performance. Preferred time zones for this role are UTC-5 to UTC-3.

• Excellent communication & collaboration: You are comfortable working in a fully remote environment, working across GitHub, Notion, Slack, Linear, Datadog, your IDE, and more. You prioritize and protect your focus time, but don't hesitate to jump on a call when a situation demands it. You don’t offload communication or coordination to product/project managers – you own our work end-to-end, from writing design docs for new work to hopping on a call with a customer to debug something in production.

• Strong problem-solving and coding skills: You value designing solutions to customer problems – from researching and defining use cases, to writing design documents, to implementing clean solutions that address them.

• Hands-on experience with infrastructure: whether you’ve been part of an on-call rotation or just working day-to-day observability tools, you are comfortable rolling up your sleeves to understand the factors at play in an incident or service degradation.

• Pragmatism: You are comfortable balancing “perfect” with “good enough,” as an individual and as part of a team.

• Modern cloud experience: You have built and run apps on Kubernetes on cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure. You are familiar with Docker, IaC (Terraform / OpenTofu), and modern CI/CD pipelines.

• Bias to action: You are comfortable working in a fast-paced, often ambiguous environment. You take initiative, ask questions, and use pragmatism when making decisions.

• Contribute to our core product: Engineering at Humanitec is a team sport. You’ll work across our stack – primarily in Go – on services that power our applications. (Experience working in both Go and TypeScript is a plus, but not required.)

• Design and refine technical systems: You will share ownership of customer use cases and the systems that power them – microservices, customer interfaces, automated tests – and help shape them to remain scalable, reliable, and elegant as they evolve.

• Work directly with customers: You will work directly with some of customers (e.g., in shared Slack channels), providing pointers to documentation, debugging issues they see, and more. (To be clear, this is not a customer support/success engineering role.)

• Collaborate closely across disciplines: You will partner with colleagues across the organization to explore problems, prototype ideas, and iterate quickly.

• Improve how we build: We value thoughtful abstractions, clean interfaces, and solid testing. You will help to continuously evolve our engineering practices.

If this sounds like a fit, we would love to hear from you!

Have questions before applying? Reach out to us at [email protected]