About this role
The role
- Build and own the platform that powers all of Spacelift - from CI/CD to observability to incident response
- Improve our code delivery pipeline: reduce friction, tighten feedback loops, eliminate flakiness
- Strengthen our SLOs and observability posture - give every team better signals
- Sharpen our on-call experience by improving alert quality, response speed, and postmortem hygiene
- Optimise platform cost and scaling behaviour across workloads and regions
- Own developer experience internally: from local dev to debugging production
- Keep learning about our problem space
- You build it, you run it - you will also be part of the on-call rotation
About You
- Passion for building products, love for tech, and interest in the problem space (DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Developer Experience)
- 4+ years of experience in backend or platform engineering, with hands-on experience owning production systems
- Experience working with Go
- You have built or maintained CI/CD pipelines, observability stacks, or developer-facing tooling
- You have been on-call and improved it - not just responded to pages, but fixed root causes and leveled up the process
- Experience working with an IaC tool - OpenTofu/Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation
- You have excellent communication skills
- Eager to learn new tools and technologies
- Strong product mindset and big-picture thinking
- Focused on solving problems, not just completing tasks
Nice to have:
- Experience with Claude Code, Datadog
- PostgreSQL/Aurora optimization experience
How we work
- We move fast. Continuous deployments at least 2 times a day, we make heavy use of feature flags (LaunchDarkly)
- Ownership over our work and driving key product decisions
- Working closely as a team, transparent communication, caring about our system, ourselves, and customers
- Everything is an iteration and everything is an experiment
- Cultivate space for small and big innovation from all-engineering hackathons to smaller, ad-hoc experiments
- We use the best dev tools that we can get our hands on
Why Spacelift?
- Innovative Culture: Join a team shaping cloud infrastructure management’s future
- Growth Opportunities: Be a key player in driving Spacelift’s business and AWS partnership to new heights
- Work-Life Balance: Flexible work environment, with remote-first options and competitive compensation packages
- Collaborative Team: Work with passionate, talented people committed to driving success for our customers and partners
- Competitive salary and equity package: B2B contract
Hiring Process
- 30' HR intro call
- 30' Team Leader Interview
- Take-home exercise
- 90' Technical interview with live coding
- 45' Final Leadership call with our Director of Engineering
Our values
- We build for CUSTOMERS
- We RESPECT each other
- We take OWNERSHIP seriously
- We succeed through COLLABORATION
- We embrace SPARK & WONDER
Join Us! At Spacelift, you won’t just be working on a technical product - you’ll be part of a team shaping the future of DevOps. Apply to contribute to a platform loved by its users and take your career to the next level!
Department
Engineering
Role
Software Engineer
Locations
Remote Europe
Remote status
Fully Remote
Employment type
Full-time
Founded in
2020
Co-workers
130+
Turnover
$82.3M in funding
Engineering
Remote Europe
Fully Remote