Senior SRE Platform Engineer

About The Role 💻 

We are looking for a Senior SRE Platform Engineer to join our Foundational Engineering team. The person will be part of an 8-9-person team that uses a Lean/Agile and Fast Agile approach (using XP), so the person must have experience in truly agile environments.

The Foundational Engineering team's mission is to create a platform that enables all of Tech, including Data Science and Engineering, to develop and evolve projects in a self-service manner with minimal friction. The ultimate goal is to accelerate experimentation and innovation while ensuring compliance, security, and best engineering practices.

This multidisciplinary team is composed of individuals with expertise in infrastructure/cloud knowledge, Data Platform, as well as developers working together to create/evolve a full platform used by the rest of ClarityAI. The team's day-to-day combines the agile development of new capabilities for the platform, the selection of new capabilities to incorporate, and the support for the rest of ClarityAI teams. The team is always focused on having the maximum impact on innovation speed with the minimum possible effort.

What You’ll Be Doing 🚀

• Helping us to improve our infrastructure and data platform (Improving dev experience, reliability, scalability) using a lean approach.
• Creating a data platform and infrastructure optimized for developments using Machine Learning and massive data processing.
• Improving the development experience.
• Spreading the DevOps culture in the company.
• Aligning with the mission and principles of the team (accelerate product teams, platform as a product, self-service, team collaboration, small safe steps, software/technology is a means to an end, etc.)
• Experience with Lean Software Development and DevOps practices (Vertical slicing, Lean approach, Continuous Delivery, pair/ensemble programming, etc.)
• Understanding how product team goals contribute to the company’s success.
• Ability to identify systemic problems and lead solutions that require coordination and alignment with other teams.
• Ability to lead architectural and technology direction for significant company impact.
• Ability to detect and respond effectively to team needs, fostering a positive working environment.

Location 🌍 

The role is based in Spain.

Way of Working: Remote

What You’ll Need 👀

• Has 6+ years of experience. 
• Is a team player (collaborative, open) and has a passion for our profession.
• Is a product-minded engineer with great empathy for our customers (internal and external).
• Has experience developing IaC for cloud environments (Terraform for AWS preferred).
• Knows at least two of the following technologies (AWS core services, k8s, Crossplane, Argo workflows, ArgoCD, Gitlab pipelines, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Has an interest in the DevOps engineering culture and practices.
• Can identify and communicate problems to the team.
• Pairs effectively with other team members.
• Lean/agile mindset.
• Time zone CEST +/- 1 (required for pair/ensemble programming).
• Strong proficiency in Python, Go, or Java.
• Capability to align technical solutions with business objectives.
• Excellent communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice To Have ✨

• You know what GitOps is and what the associated tools are (ArgoCD, Flux, etc).
• Experience with Data Science and Machine Learning projects (MLOps, model productization, ML pipelines, etc.)
• Experience with Airflow.
• Experience with broad company-wide impact through technical initiatives.
• Participation in community-building activities inside or outside of the organization.
• Ability to make high-quality, impactful contributions towards company goals.
• Engages in technical foresight and strategic planning to guide the company’s technology evolution.

If you have a passion for our profession, you enjoy helping your colleagues (data scientists, software engineers), and you like to work in a (real) agile team (lean, XP, DevOps), we encourage you to apply. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and identities.

What We Offer 🥁

• Competitive compensation, both in terms of base salary as well as equity plans that enable to you to share in our success
• Flexibility in ways of working both in terms of your schedule as well as your location, whether you prefer to work from home, the office, or abroad with access to a global network of co-working spaces 
• Generous paid time off schemes, including vacation, sabbatical, religious observance and compensation days
• Meaningful benefits including private healthcare coverage, fitness and wellness programs covered through Wellhub, working-from-home allowances to help you set up your home office and cover monthly expenses
• Professional development with annual training budget for conferences, courses, certifications and access to top market e-learning platforms
• Collaborative environment with multiple offices around the globe, regular team activities and events as well as employee-led resource groups