Senior Platform Engineer

ABOUT BEAMERY

Beamery’s mission is to create equal access to work, skills and careers. We are a leading transformational AI platform in the HR technology industry, enabling enterprise companies to create better and fairer talent decisions – by accelerating their recruiting processes, unlocking successful internal mobility opportunities, enabling smarter upskilling initiatives, and facilitating agile workforce planning. We are helping our clients hire over a million people annually.

Our product is used by Fortune 2000 organizations globally, leveraging cutting-edge AI technology that has earned us prestigious awards and financial backing from world renowned organizations such as Microsoft, Accenture & Workday. 

Some of the innovative things Beamery is working on this year include:

✨ Transforming experiences throughout the talent lifecycle with the power of AI and LLMs by using learning models and Beamery’s unique understanding of talent data.

✨ Focusing on ‘Beamery Talent Portals,’ our internal mobility tool which uses AI to help empower our customers to foster employee development, supports retention, encourages knowledge transfer, and reduces hiring costs.

But it’s not all about creating high-quality products, we also very much value the company culture we have worked hard to create; built on trust, empathy & honesty ensuring our workforce is able to bring their full selves to work.

ABOUT THE TEAM 

The Platform team at Beamery enables engineering teams to build scalable and reliable services by supporting a foundation of tools and common services. These services include our managed Kubernetes clusters, observability tooling, and much more. We’re responsible for setting best practices around incident management and cost controls whilst empowering teams to build it, run it.

We’re a remote team, spread across multiple countries, but our home is in our amazing London HQ. 

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING AT BEAMERY

🚀Building and evolving Platform’s managed services and tools to enable teams to run scalable and reliable services

🚀Driving continuous improvement in incident response across Platform and the wider engineering organisation, including SLOs, alerting, dashboards

🚀Working with cutting edge technology in an agile environment

🚀Designing scalable and secure solutions to complex problems

🚀Providing technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers
🚀Play a pivotal role in cultivating a vibrant company culture that champions creativity by championing a welcoming atmosphere where team members are empowered to openly share their thoughts and innovative ideas.
🚀Participate in company-wide initiatives and learning & development opportunities, such as tribes, hackathons, and programs like Women in Engineering, to foster a diverse and inclusive culture

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
🚀Hands-on SRE experience, including being on-call maintaining critical cloud-based services (We are GCP)

🚀Proficient with Go and/or JS/TS - most of our tooling is written in Go

🚀Expertise in building and maintaining complex applications in the cloud

🚀Highly experienced with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles, particularly proficient in Terraform

🚀Operational experience with some of our key infrastructure components is highly desirable, including Kubernetes, Kafka, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and Istio

🚀Pragmatic architecture design experience, including service-oriented architecture (SOA), ensuring a balance of factors to deliver the best possible solution


BENEFITS

🏝 Unlimited Holidays (26 days minimum) + Bank/Federal Holidays

📅 First Friday of every month off

⛷ Company closure between Christmas and the New Year

🌍 Beamery Explore: Work from another country for up to 25 days each year

🌱 Monthly focused Personal Development Day

🐥 6 months of full pay for primary caregivers (parental, surrogacy & adoption)

🐥 6 weeks of full pay for secondary caregivers (parental, surrogacy & adoption)

🏥 Private health insurance for you and your family 

⏰ Time off for prenatal appointments

🐶 Pet-friendly offices 

📈 Stock options

Beamery is for Everybody. Diversity and open expression are fundamental to us. We acknowledge the challenges in our industry and strive to develop an inclusive culture where everybody can contribute. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for everyone, regardless of ethnicity, religion, color, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, national origin, age, disability status, or caregiver status. If, for whatever reason, you need us to make reasonable adjustments and adaptations to our recruitment process, please email accommodations@beamery.com

Visit our Diversity, Equality and Inclusion page to learn more about progress and commitments.