Platform Engineer

About the role

About us

At Trainline, our purpose is to empower greener travel choices, connecting people and places. https://www.thetrainline.com/terms/sustainability-faqs Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels.

Great journeys start with Trainline 🚄

We’re Europe’s leading independent rail platform, helping millions of travellers find and book the best-value rail and coach journeys across our app, website and partner channels.

Our job is to make the green travel choice the best choice. By building a better train travel experience, we help more people choose rail - creating a positive impact for customers, our business and the planet.

We’re a team of more than 1,000 Trainliners from over 50 nationalities, working across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh and Madrid. Now is a brilliant time to join us and help shape the future of travel.

Introducing the Trainline Infrastructure Engineering and Tooling Team 👋

The Infrastructure Engineering and Tooling team, also known as Atlas, owns the ecosystem we use to deploy, run and manage services across the Trainline platform. Our work helps engineering teams across the business ship changes safely and confidently, so millions of travellers can rely on Trainline every day.

You'll join a collaborative team of software and platform engineers at all levels of experience. We work across Terraform, AWS, Node.js, C# and Python, and we don't expect you to know it all from day one. You'll work closely with engineers, Tech Leads and Engineering Managers, with support from a Senior Principal Engineer and the Head of Engineering, to improve our platform and deliver meaningful infrastructure change.

In this role as the Platform Engineer, you will...🚄

- Contribute to improvements across Trainline's engineering platforms, building scalable, reliable and secure infrastructure that supports teams across the business.

- Implement infrastructure changes with Terraform, following existing module patterns and suggesting ideas to improve quality, maintainability and automation.

- Apply least-privilege and secure-by-default principles across our AWS accounts, helping our infrastructure meet Trainline's standards for security and operational excellence.

- Build and improve automation, services and tooling in Node.js or Python to make delivery faster, safer and more repeatable.

- Learn and grow with your colleagues through code reviews, pairing and shared knowledge, giving and receiving constructive feedback along the way.

- Work with Tech Leads, Delivery Managers and cross-functional colleagues to understand priorities, plan your work and manage dependencies.

- Raise risks, blockers and questions early, helping the team keep delivery moving at a sustainable pace.