Senior Platform Engineer
About the role
As Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll shape our internal developer experience platform from the ground up. Build tooling and infrastructure that simplifies development and operations, automates deployments, and ensures security and compliance by default. Improve software quality, reduce costs, and help teams ship faster with confidence. Work autonomously, scale what matters, and empower every engineer at Perspective to move smarter.
Let's find out if we're a match
What you'll be doing
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support fast, secure, and automated deployments (including tests, security checks, and monitoring)
Improve developer experience by enhancing onboarding processes and streamlining local development workflows
Lead our backend migration from Heroku to AWS alongside the engineering team
Continuously improve our infrastructure by applying AWS Well-Architected Framework best practices
Advise product teams on service architecture improvements (e.g. API gateway standardization)
Support our YBIYRI culture by empowering engineers to fully own, build, and run their services
Who you are
Proven experience building and scaling cloud infrastructure on AWS, ideally in a fast-growing environment (e.g. from 10 to 50+ engineers)
Strong hands-on knowledge of IaC tools like Terraform (CDK or CloudFormation is a plus), and CI/CD systems like GitHub Actions or Jenkins
Solid backend engineering background, ideally in TypeScript/Node.js, with a deep understanding of APIs, databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB), and caches (Redis)
Fluent in infrastructure fundamentals, including Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, networking, and shell scripting
Excellent communication skills and high proficiency in English; able to work cross-functionally and support a collaborative engineering culture
Pragmatic, proactive, and self-driven, with a strong sense of ownership and the ability to empower others
Your first week at Perspective
Onboarding at a fully remote company? Our videographer Jack created a video of his first weeks to help you understand what working at Perspective will be like.
These benefits await you:
We are looking for passionate people who value quality. We live a culture of ownership and freedom that provides the space you need to develop.
Mindset? Quality!
We believe there is nothing better than working on projects that are of high quality and bring a smile to our customers' faces.
Work from anywhere in Europe
We are a 100% remote company with the goal to innovate remote work. Let's inspire other companies together!
Team Retreats
Twice a year we meet at great locations and spend an eventful week together as a team. We are looking forward to having you with us there!
Remote Working Budget
You get a monthly remote budget of €100 for everything you love. Buy a bar table, headphones, or book an Airbnb to cowork with a colleague.
Co-Working Membership
With your membership, you have access to hundreds of co-working spaces across Europe. Enjoy this flexibility.
Ownership & Freedom Culture
We believe that you can do your best work when you enjoy absolute freedom and have real responsibility.
We care deeply about our culture
We try to stay as small as possible and empower every person on board to become the best version of themselves.
No CV required
Over 6.000+ companies small & big worldwide rely on us
6 easy steps to join our team
Our goal is to make each step in the recruiting process fun and last a maximum of 2 weeks.
The process helps both you and us find out if we are a good fit for each other.
Get in touch with us directly via this funnel (built with our own product).
A short get to know
This helps both of us clarify the most important questions.
Value based exchange
We find out if your values and ours at Perspective are a true match.
Work sample & interview
The goal is to find out if you love your future challenge & your field.
Meet your future team
Now you can get to know your future team and our founders.
Welcome on board!
We're already busy preparing for your 2-week onboarding program.
No CV requir
Welcome to our office – welcome home
We are scattered all over Europe and fully embrace creating meaningful work from where we work best.
Every six months we come together to meet in person, celebrate our achievements and work on new challenges.
