Senior Platform Engineer

<p>Every day, millions of people from over 190 countries trust us to handle their precious creative ideas. </p><p></p><p>Since making our name with quick &amp; simple file-sharing, WeTransfer has evolved to help creators organize, share, and get feedback on their work – from inception right up to delivery. We showcase the best brands to more than 80 million users per month, and our editorial platform WePresent has championed unexpected stories of creativity from around the globe and features collaborations from world-famous artists, too. </p><p></p><p>Sounds like fun, right? Allow us to sweeten the deal: as a certified B Corporation, we do all of this while using business as a force for good, balancing people, the planet, and profit along the way.</p><p></p><p>Every day, millions of people from over 190 countries trust us to handle their precious creative ideas.</p><p>Since making our name with quick &amp; simple file-sharing, WeTransfer has evolved to help creators organize, share, and get feedback on their work – from inception right up to delivery. We showcase the best brands to more than 80 million users per month, and our editorial platform WePresent has championed unexpected stories of creativity from around the globe and features collaborations from world-famous artists, too.</p><p>Sounds like fun, right? Allow us to sweeten the deal: as a certified B Corporation, we do all of this while using business as a force for good, balancing people, the planet, and profit along the way.</p><p><strong>About the team</strong></p><p>The Platform team is at the core of engineering at WeTransfer. The team accelerates innovation by providing developers with the tools they need while ensuring the platform is reliable, performant, and secure. They continuously work with the product teams to develop processes, tools, and services to support end-to-end ownership and self-service deployment of applications and infrastructure.</p><p><strong>About the role</strong></p><p>Your drive will fuel cross-functional projects and the development of our platform to support the needs of a scaling business.</p><p>Work engineering organisation of hundreds of engineers and enable them to ship new products and features in a self-serve manner.</p><p>Contribute to a culture of learning and growth though knowledge sharing and mentoring.</p><p><strong>What you’ll be able to impact</strong></p><ul><li><p>You’ll be architecting and developing applications and systems related to infrastructure and developer tooling to allow for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling.</p></li><li><p>You’ll proactively identify technical debt, systemic inefficiencies, or gaps in application performance, financial spending, and testing, and will work on removing these.</p></li><li><p>You’ll advocate for designing systems without single points of failure or scheduled maintenance windows, and ensure resilience patterns are implemented.</p></li><li><p>You’ll contribute to driving a DevOps way of working where engineers are responsible for service ownership at the application level, by enabling and creating golden paths. We advocate for a philosophy of “you build it, you run it”.</p></li></ul><p><strong>What we are looking for</strong></p><ul><li><p>A proven track record in delivering highly reliable and scalable platform solutions.</p></li><li><p>Strong hands-on experience implementing software (ideally using Golang or someone who is a quick learner) using proven delivery methods (like agile) and reliability best practices that increase quality, agility, and reliability.</p></li><li><p>Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure, ideally with experience working with orchestrators (like Kubernetes) and Infrastructure As Code(like Terraform) in an AWS-heavy environment.</p></li><li><p>Experience in several of these areas: computing, networking, databases, security.</p></li><li><p>Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.</p></li><li><p>Someone who values open and honest communication and good teamwork to achieve a shared vision.</p></li><li><p>A passionate engineer who isn't afraid of new tools and technologies and loves sharing their knowledge and experience.</p></li><li><p>Ability to find engagement in a team that’s spread across time zones (US and NL in this case) with a mostly remote and async way of working.</p></li><li><p>Nice to have: experience working in engineering organisations of 150+ engineers in a similar role.</p></li><li><p>Nice to have: experience with DevEx and creating of internal tooling.</p></li></ul><p></p><p><strong>Equal Opportunities</strong></p><p></p><p>WeTransfer is an equal opportunity employer and we pride ourselves on the diversity of our people. We welcome you, and everything that makes you—well, you. That includes your gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, or disability status.</p><p></p><p><strong>Background screening </strong><br/></p><p>While it is not necessa