Platform Engineer

Exciting deeptech start-up seeks a bright, forward thinking 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 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.