Senior Platform Engineer

About the role

Checkout.com is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Data Platform Team. Our team’s mission is to build a world-class data platform that powers our products and analytics.

We're building for scale by utilising best of breed technologies. As such, much of what we design and implement today will be the technology/infrastructure which will serve hundreds of teams and petabyte-level volumes of data.

This role will be leveraging Kubernetes (preferably EKS), Kafka (MSK preferred) as well as AWS for their main stack. Terraform and Helm should be second nature. If you are passionate about cloud-native technologies, containerisation, CI/CD pipelines and AWS, this role offers an exciting opportunity to drive technical decisions and collaborate on innovative projects. Find interesting problems… and solve them!

The Data Platform team is here to ensure internal stakeholders can easily collect, store, process and utilise data to build reports or products aiming to solve business problems. Our focus is on maximising the amount of time business stakeholders spend on solving business problems and minimising time spent on technical details around implementation, deployment and monitoring of their solutions.

You don’t need all of the following to apply; we all have different backgrounds, but if this sounds familiar, and fun to you, please apply!

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Design, spearhead and improve our platform offerings, primarily MSK, Kubernetes (ArgoCD is a plus here), Airflow and Snowflake. Obviously not alone, but as part of a team. These are all “managed”, but we’re aiming at a unified experience.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to define technical requirements and project deliverables.
• Collaborate in technical decisions related to infrastructure design, optimization, and best practices.
• Best practice on monitoring EKS clusters for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior engineers, sharing best practices and fostering a culture of continuous learning.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response, ensuring high availability and reliability of systems.
• Design and support teams on the AWS networking side of things, and be an advocate for best practices in this area.

About You

• You have experience as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer or similar role.
• Good expertise in Kubernetes (preferably EKS), with hands-on experience in cluster setup, management and optimisation.
• Good knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, particularly using GitHub Actions for automated software delivery.
• Goodnderstanding of AWS services and concepts, including ECS (Fargate), IAM, *LB, security groups.
• Experience in infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform.
• You thrive on driving technical decisions, analyse complex problems, and propose scalable solutions.

Great to have

• Knowledge and experience in one or more large-scale distributed technologies such as Flink, Spark, Hive, Kafka, Cassandra, etc.
• Experience in big data storage platforms and query engines with knowledge of cutting-edge technologies like Trino, Hive, Iceberg, Delta Lake, and Hudi .
• Familiarity with data orchestration tools, such as Apache Airflow.
• Proficiency with Helm, ArgoCD and Kustomize for managing Kubernetes applications and configurations through GitOps practices.