The platform group is the multiplier behind every Idealdevs engagement: shared Terraform modules, hardened Kubernetes baselines, deployment pipelines, and the paved road that lets a client project go from empty repository to production-grade infrastructure in days. As our staff platform engineer you set the technical direction of that road, what we standardize, what we deliberately leave flexible, and how we migrate twelve squads without stopping any of them.
This is a fully remote role open across Europe (CET ±2). You will work in the open: RFCs over meetings, internal tooling treated as a product with a roadmap and users, and a quarterly platform review where delivery squads tell you honestly what is slowing them down. Expect to still write code most days, this is a staff role, not a slideware role.
What you'll do
- Own the architecture and roadmap of the internal developer platform across AWS and GCP
- Design and maintain reusable Terraform modules, Kubernetes baselines, and deployment pipelines
- Set standards for observability, secrets management, and infrastructure security across engagements
- Drive adoption through RFCs, documentation, and embedded pairing with delivery squads
- Lead incident reviews for platform-level failures and turn them into systemic fixes
- Advise client CTOs on platform strategy during discovery and architecture engagements
What we're looking for
- 8+ years in infrastructure, SRE, or platform roles, including several running Kubernetes in production
- Expert-level Terraform and deep working knowledge of at least one major cloud (AWS or GCP)
- A track record of building internal platforms or golden paths that other teams actually adopted
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, Go or TypeScript preferred, beyond YAML and scripts
- Experience defining and operating SLOs, error budgets, and on-call practices
- Excellent written communication; you default to RFCs and documentation
Nice to have
- Experience with multi-tenant platform security and compliance (ISO 27001, SOC 2)
- Cost-engineering experience, rightsizing, allocation, and unit economics
- Contributions to open-source infrastructure tooling
- Prior experience in a consultancy or multi-client environment