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Platform Engineer
Platform Engineer - Up to £70K per annum
Additional on-call allowance, total package circa up to £80K
About SpareRoom
SpareRoom, launched in 2004, has helped over 10 million people worldwide find homes to share and connect with great roommates. We believe that:
"Living with the right people beats living alone."
Our mission is simple: create happier flatshares.
As a modern family business, we are 100% owned by our founders and directors. This keeps our focus centred on users and fosters a culture of contributing humble, energetic individuals who get things done.
We are excited to grow our Platform team, as we’ve recently completed our migration from a datacenter to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and are embracing cloud-native infrastructure. This allows us to build a more scalable, resilient, and efficient platform. We’re now looking for a passionate and experienced Platform Engineer to help us optimise our infrastructure, improve security, and instil best practices for scalable, cloud-native solutions.
About the Role
As a Platform Engineer at SpareRoom, you will:
- Ensure the security, reliability, and performance of our platform and infrastructure.
- Design and maintain scalable, cloud-native infrastructure and platform tooling on GCP.
- Automate and continuously improve infrastructure and operational workflows.
- Collaborate with the core development team to design and deliver platform solutions supporting product development.
- Build and maintain self-service platform capabilities, enabling teams to deploy and operate services independent of extensive support.
- Support the development of high engineering standards, including best practices, tooling, and comprehensive documentation.
- Participate in an on-call rotation (paid) to help monitor and maintain platform reliability and availability.
Responsibilities
Your work will intersect with several key areas:
- Infrastructure & Tooling
- Deploy and manage cloud-native solutions on GCP (extensive experience essential).
- Lead initiatives to improve scalability, reliability, and efficiency.
- Implement automation pipelines for deployment, monitoring, and maintenance.
- Contribute to and maintain self-service platform tooling.
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Security & Compliance
- Help develop an audit and security framework to safeguard systems against breaches.
- Define and implement benchmarks and standards for system integrity and security.
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Team Collaboration
- Work closely with product and development teams to realise common infrastructure goals.
- Mentor and pair onboarding initiatives, fostering a strong culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning.
- Ensure platforms and processes are developed with simplicity in mind, while always consider risk minimisation and operational efficiency.
Requirements
To thrive in this role, you’ll need demonstrable experience in:
- Containerisation (Docker & Kubernetes proficiency required)
- Linux secrets (Debian & RHEL/CentOS in-depth knowledge)
- Cloud providers (experience using Google Cloud Platform with AWS familiarity strongly preferred; bonus points for Azure or other cloud knowledge)
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (Terraform experience essential; CI/CD pipelines experience ideal)
- Configuration Management tools (Ansible, Puppet, or Packer familiarity)
- CI/CD practices & tools (experienced with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, FluxCD)
- Scripting & programming *(*Python, Bash (Linux shell scripting), Perl, or Go (Golang) scripts essential)
- Databases (MySQL acquaintance required, ideally with experience in other DB services)
- Networking & Security (basic understanding of physical & wireless networking, firewalls, and general security best practices required)
- Email infrastructure (experience troubleshooting SMTP services like Postfix; deep understanding of mail routing, delivery mechanisms)
GCP-native architectural experience, Fastly (CDN) familiarity and active participation in on-call journeys are strong plus factors but not compulsory.
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Why SpareRoom?
We believe passionately:
- In самодействие/self-service — reducing bottlenecks and increasing efficiency through trust-guided processes.
- In simplicity — because complexity is the enemy of speed and reliability.
- In being proactive — building small experiments (spikes) and iterating to ship cost-effective, high-quality solutions.
Every team member’s first priority is enabling the company with minimal friction.
Additionally, we foster a culture where: ✔ Explicit risk management is paramount across everything we do – from the smallest process tweak to major architecture changes. ✔ Lean and Agile methods are embraced daily, breaking down silos. ✔ Self-assurance is built by agile pairing, coaching, and iterative learning. ✔ Taking ownership means speaking up when needed, learning, and swiftly adjusting without fear.
For your benefit, we also help foster personal and professional growth through:
Co-worker care — everyone checks in for one another and feels seen where possible.
At SpareRoom, you gain:
- A hybrid working model requiring consistent core office presence.
- Cycle to Work scheme with partner support.
- Home & Tech Granting Scheme.
- Season Travel Loan Programme.
- A pension contribution match.
- Sports, health and financial wellbeing contributions.
- Optional Private Health Care coverage with Employee Assistance Plans (EAP).
- A one-time Rental Deposit Support Loan for suitable offers.
- YOUR strike at upgrading your room/situation in our existing SpareRoom network.
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Note: UK residency and legal right to work are mandatory for job offers to proceed. Recruitment sometimes closes before listed deadlines due to interest volume.
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