Staff Platform Engineer

About the role

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Platform Engineer based in United Kingdom.

As a Staff Platform Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the infrastructure and developer experience that power a growing engineering organization. You will lead high-impact initiatives focused on continuous delivery, cloud infrastructure, automation, and developer productivity. Working closely with distributed engineering teams, you will influence architectural decisions and build scalable platforms that make software development faster, safer, and more reliable. You will also help evolve developer environments to support increasingly autonomous AI-powered engineering workflows. Combining hands-on technical execution with strategic leadership, you will have the opportunity to drive meaningful improvements across the entire software development lifecycle. This is a high-ownership role where your work will directly influence engineering efficiency, platform reliability, and long-term technical scalability.

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Lead major platform engineering initiatives, starting with Continuous Delivery, from technical design and architecture reviews through implementation, deployment, and continuous improvement.

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Deliver early improvements to developer productivity by strengthening CI reliability, optimizing merge workflows, automating deployments, and improving local development environments.

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Drive architectural decisions across engineering teams, preparing technical proposals, leading design reviews, and ensuring successful implementation of platform-wide solutions.

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Own and evolve cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, developer environments, observability systems, and operational tooling to support a scalable engineering organization.

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Build the next generation of developer infrastructure through automation, self-service tooling, and reusable abstractions that reduce friction for engineers and increasingly autonomous AI agents.

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Improve software delivery speed, deployment frequency, and operational reliability through continuous optimization of testing infrastructure and deployment workflows.

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Strengthen production reliability by implementing effective monitoring, alerting, incident response practices, and long-term solutions to recurring operational issues.

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Collaborate with distributed Platform and Engineering teams, sharing responsibility for production support, on-call coverage, and incident management during Americas business hours.

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Lead broader engineering initiatives, including infrastructure standards, architecture governance, technical documentation, and organization-wide reliability practices.

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Promote engineering excellence by mentoring peers, influencing technical standards, and fostering a culture of ownership, automation, collaboration, and continuous learning.