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Senior Platform Software Engineer

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Node.jsPostgreSQLAWSCI/CDTypeScriptNestJSTerraformObservabilityB2B Sales
ABOUT THE ROLE Join an early-stage B2B SaaS company as a Senior Platform Software Engineer. You will own cloud infrastructure, deployment systems, and reliability for a high-traffic platform, helping the team make sound architecture decisions and ship with confidence. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Architect, deploy, and operate AWS infrastructure across compute, messaging, storage, networking, and observability. - Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that automate deployments from commit through production. - Manage production PostgreSQL, including configuration, performance tuning, migrations, and backup strategies. - Balance delivery speed with investment in foundational system quality. - Work with stakeholders and product teams to shape architecture and technical direction. - Explore AI-assisted development tools and integrate them into build and deployment workflows. - Diagnose complex distributed-systems issues and deliver pragmatic solutions for high-availability services. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience, including operating high-traffic, high-availability systems at scale. - Deep, hands-on experience running production infrastructure on AWS and managing infrastructure as code with Terraform or a similar tool. - Production PostgreSQL expertise, including connection pooling, migrations, performance optimization, and backup and restore. - Experience building or maintaining production CI/CD pipelines and working with distributed-systems concepts such as ordering guarantees, idempotency, retries, at-least-once delivery, and partial-failure recovery. - Ability to read and understand TypeScript and Node.js application code, including NestJS codebases. - Experience with AI-assisted development workflows, such as agentic coding tools, multi-agent setups, or MCP servers, alongside the independent technical judgment to debug and reason about architecture. - Strong problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and ownership skills. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Competitive salary and employee stock options. Visa sponsorship is not available. LOCATION Remote within Europe, with residence within three hours of Central European Time.