Driftrock
Senior Platform Engineer
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Senior Platform Engineer
Senior Platform Engineer – Driftrock
Driftrock is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to take ownership of the infrastructure and security that enables our engineering teams to ship fast, safely, and at scale as more of the world's biggest car brands join us.
Location & Pay
- Remote (UK or abroad with a few hours of daily UK overlap)
- Full-time, permanent
- Salary: £65,000 to £85,000, plus share options
- Start date: As soon as possible
About the Role
Driftrock runs entirely on Google Cloud, and our product is growing quickly as more clients trust us with their marketing. As we scale, we’re investing in a dedicated owner for our platform and security, ensuring our engineering squads can ship fast with strong foundations. You’ll define how we run, secure, and evolve our platform, and build the tooling and secure defaults that allow our product squads to ship confidently without reinventing infrastructure every time.
As Driftrock and our engineering team grow, this role will shape the foundation for a small platform team.
Our platform consists of:
- Multiple Elixir services (communicating via APIs and RabbitMQ)
- PostgreSQL & Redis for data storage
- Kubernetes (GKE) on Google Cloud
- Terraform for infrastructure-as-code
- Self-hosted Buildkite for CI/CD
- Oban for background jobs
Who You Are (Must-Have)
Ownership & Experience
- Deep, hands-on experience running production workloads on Google Cloud
- Strong Kubernetes (GKE) operations experience (clusters, workload patterns)
- Expertise in infrastructure-as-code, ideally Terraform
- Solid cloud security fundamentals (IAM, secrets management, network security)
- Experience owning and improving CI/CD pipelines
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Hands-On Technical Skills
- Comfortable writing/working in Elixir (or functional languages like Ruby)
- bias towards really go-to-production often with XP, TDD, pair programming
- Obsessive focus on cost efficiency, reliability, and observability
Leadership & Enablement
- Can set standards, make architecture decisions independently
- Enablement-first mindset: build guardrails & paved roads (not gates/bottlenecks)
- Proven track record of influencing teams toward better engineering practices
Who You’ll Supporters (Nice-to-Haves)
- Experience with ISO 27001/SOC 2 compliance and customer security audits
- Service-level objectives (SLOs) and incident postmortems
- Awareness of cloud cost optimization
- Experience mentoring engineers or building a small team
- Familiarity with Reliability Engineering principles
What You’ll Own
Responsibilities span:
- Infrastructure reliability & security (ISO 27001, client audits)
- IaC maturity (Terraform, least-privilege access, secrets rotation)
- Kubernetes operations (cluster updates, workload reliability)
- CI/CD & deployment pipelines (Buildkite improvements)
- Observability & cost tracking (DNS, certs, performance monitoring)
- Tooling for developers (local tooling, containerization, paved roads)
Your First 90 Days
- Day 30: Map infrastructure, security, workflows, and identify risks
- Day 60: Ship first improvements, agree on a platform roadmap
- Day 90: Deliver steady progress, establish clear ownership
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Why Join Driftrock?
Our Mission
Help the world transition to clean transport by empowering major car brands (BMW, Mercedes, Volvo) with cutting-edge marketing tech.
Culture & Values
✅ Care: Every decision is for consumers + customers—not just vanity ✅ Be that person: Fix broken processes—no "not my job" ✅ People-first: Security & privacy must align with user needs ✅ Be better daily: Learning, retros, and continuous growth are required
Perks (Global & UK-Specific)
Essentials:
- Share options (founder-friendly EMI terms)
- £3.5k+ Learning Budget (courses, books, conferences)
- 24-28 holiday days (3 extra per year, capping at 28) + UK bank holidays
- Comprehensive health benefits (complimentary Headspace, mental health support)
- Pension contributions & life insurance (3x salary)
Bonus UK:
- Electric car salary sacrificing (Octopus)
- Co-working spaces
Notes for International Hires: Employment via an Employer of Record (Remote.com) ensures global compliance, with strong parity and compliance safeguards.
Growth & Impact
Your work will directly scalability, security, and developer happiness—helping sustain high growth for one of the hottest automotive marketing platforms.
Think you’re right for this role? [Apply now](link goes here)—no spec work required. Driftrock is biased toward action.
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