Driftrock Limited
Senior Platform Engineer
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Senior Platform Engineer
Senior Platform Engineer
Driftrock is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to take ownership of the infrastructure and security that empowers our engineering teams to ship fast, safely, and at scale as more of the world’s biggest car brands onboard.
Quick Facts
- Team: Engineering
- Reports to: Head of Engineering
- Location: Remote (UK or abroad, with 2–3+ hours of daily UK overlap)
- Contract: Full-time, permanent
- Salary: £65,000–£85,000 + share options
- Start Date: ASAP
Why This Role Exists
Driftrock operates entirely on Google Cloud, with a rapidly growing product trusted by global automotive marketing leaders. To meet scale, we’re investing in a dedicated platform and security owner—so your engineering squads can keep innovating with robust, reliable foundations.
You’ll define, shape, and maintain the platform’s security, performance, and developer experience—while growing this function alongside the company.
- Our platform consists of multi-service Elixir applications integrated via APIs, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Kubernetes (GKE).
- Infrastructure is managed via Terraform, CI/CD runs on self-hosted Buildkite, and job scheduling uses Oban.
- We embrace Extreme Programming, test-driven development, testing everything in production multiple times daily, and a observerability-first mindset.
What You’ll Own (Key milestones in your first 90 days)
By Day 30: You’ve mapped the current infrastructure, security posture, and developer workflows, pinpointing critical risks and opportunities.
By Day 60: Shipped your first improvements and aligned on a prioritised platform roadmap with the engineering team.
By Day 90:
- Delivering against the roadmap with early wins in security, reliability, or developer experience.
- Demonstrating clear ownership of the platform.
Your Responsibilities
Cloud & Infrastructure Ownership
- Shape, secure, and scale Google Cloud infrastructure so product teams ship confidently.
- Increase IaC coverage: Ensure all changes are repeatable, auditable, and safe via Terraform.
- 環境分離 & 運維自動化: Maintain clean separation of dev/stage/prod, managed via IaC.
- Enhance identity/access controls (SSO, least-privilege policies) and secrets management (totally replacing/extending current setup).
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Security & Compliance
- Maintain ISO 27001 certification and prepare for client security audits (leadership, not just box-ticking).
- Manage TLS for medium-size car brands’ customers (where is this handled? Cert management, DNS cadence).
Kubernetes & Platform Operations
- End-to-end responsibility for GKE clusters: keep them current, reliable, and producer-friendly (e.g., workload optimisations).
CI/CD & Developer Tooling
- Improve self-hosted Buildkite pipelines, local toolchains (CI environments, debugger setup) to speed up developers.
- Setup contract testing between microservices along with component tests.
- zerotouch operator for tech-ex internal service.
Reliability & Observability
- Steady state upgrades, patching, DNS, certs – everything current with minimal downtime.
- Visualise cost, performance, reliability: Build dashboards showing we have a handle on spend and uptime metrics.
Requirements
Must Have
- Deep Google Cloud experience: running production workloads, GKE ops & workload patterns (e.g. “We manage DB VMs server, don’t tell us how to buy Cloud SQL”).
- Kubernetes in production: Nammy’s intent-backed Operators maybe? Beyond just standard Debian/Fedora stack-hacking.
- Terraform fluency: Write good IaC that your team can rely on, “isn’t optional plumbing” attitude.
- Security fundamentals: IAM roles/Principal of Least Privilege, secrets management, potential perimeter firewall rules, rather than just “you use Google’s auto control planes, it’s fine”.
- CI/CD ownership: Improve pipelines, training, engineering’s obsession-free feedback loops.
- Willing to engage with us at the code level: We’ll ask you to write the FastAPI wrapper for an Elixir CashFlow dashboard or let Plumsort annotate the
run_true!compatibility as we introduce new job queues.
Nice to Have
- Elixir/Ruby hands-on exposure. ISO 27001 / SOC 2 experience. Speak RelOps like you grew it. Radge SLAs, browning fire drills, structured retrospectives over “check the Box Still Sitting On Was 4 Hours This Week”. Tax-effect from an infinite cost-grid. Budgets? Zero (premise that “we’re buying 1TB of bandwidth and failover-region’s CDF”) stealing. Past team growing, mentoring, rotating, maybe even hosting open.
Why Driftrock
We’re the world’s fastest-growing marketing software platform for automotive and electric mobility, trusted by BMW, Volvo, Mercedes, Octopus etc.
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Better together with:
- Sigma-reduced cloud spending on predictable cost structures.
- Any organisation host pretty electronics? “I’m the Kubernetes operator!” build features—internal and customer—which blast mobility beyond fossil. Never-JROD deals. Good people + tooling wins.
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Four Values Shape Us
- Care deeply: Customers, users, teammates. Prove work is useful for both—always.
- “That Person?”: Never ask “Who do I show that one? It’s mine!” in either code or messaging.
- People first: Security, trust, and accountability don’t mean burning people out for the company’s sake.
- Be better today: Continuous improvement. Failures? Let’s improve. No stubborn tribalism.
Your tools to grow the company and ourselves too:
- Real impact: Directly influence product direction, people, and tech.
- Agile conf, “one-off listens”, a 5 weeks a year away to help deepen skills or side-couple.
- Monthly coworking spaces if you want one; talk practice meetings across zones.
- Flexibility: We’ll come up with something we both like. Seriously.
Your compensation
- Salary + EMI share options (keep vested ones after leaving).
- ++ Features you can go bonkers for: Health: Vitality covers mind, limbs, ears, headspace gifted account. Car: Octopus EV: ~£400/month (insured/serviced). Leave: 24 days + 1 per year (capped). pensions, life assurance (24% contribution).
UK/EU/Other?
- Language matter but not that much (UK primarily). Learn stuff perks and culture engineer you how to fit in.
- Offer parity provisions globally (ER, paying correctness).
How We Hire
- Quick call with recruiting.
- Talk with the hiring manager (Head of Engineering).
- Take a practical task (pay subclasses—as long as it’s your timeseries query). Nothing unpaid upfront.
- Invite you to chat with the team.
Inclusion at Driftrock
We’re an anti-discrimination workplace: We don’t care about any one of your identifiable traits. Adjustments needed for interviews? State ‘em right up. Recruiters: Go away.
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