About the Role
We are currently seeking a Senior Platform Engineer with extensive experience in managing scaled SaaS production infrastructure. As part of our team, you will focus on enhancing site reliability, security, and scalability to support our rapid growth. The ideal candidate is a proactive and driven professional who thrives on tackling complex technical challenges, optimising performance, and delivering scalable solutions. Our core technologies include PHP, MySQL, Vue.js, and AWS, and participation in an on-call rotation is a key aspect of this role.#LI-Hybrid
Key Responsibilities
Act as a senior member of the DevOps team, supporting activities including the backlog and workload of the team, scoping requirements, peer review of code, providing feedback to the rest of the team.Represent the team in management and stakeholder meetings. Ensure best practices are kept, and suggest improvements to our development processes where you see gaps.Investigate, test, and resolve technical problems, working closely with other engineers to deliver core product functionality.The security, stability and uptime of production, staging and development environmentsMonitoring the above environments and reacting to alerts and issues that may arise in day-to-day operation of their product lineParticipate in an on-call rota for priority-1 level alarms with the rest of the Ops teamOngoing upgrades and improvements to infrastructure and processesContribute to the planning of application/infrastructure releases and configuration changesInteract with internal teams and external 3rd party vendors to troubleshoot and resolve complex problems
Your Experience and Qualifications
5+ years experience in an engineering role responsible for supporting a scaled SaaS platform running on Linux in a cloud environmentExperience working with high-performance systems, and solving complex engineering problems at scale (our platform processes ~100 Billion messages per year)Understanding of distributed systems design – including asynchronous tasks, event driven architecture, scheduling, caching, queue processingAbility to apply distributed systems design knowledge to resolve scaling constraints. The capability to carry out performance tuning from the API to Application to Database layer of the platform.Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical solutions simply to othersExperience with specific technologies in our stack: AWS, PHP, GoLang, MySQL, Clickhouse, Kafka, PythonExperience with networking and security conceptsExperience with Cloud and DevOps technologies (AWS, Terraform, CI/CD etc.)Interest or experience with marketing technologiesInterest or experience with big data, data analytics, AI and machine learning
Location
This is a hybrid role based in Dublin, London or Milton Keynes.
About us
Headquartered in Ireland with offices in the UK and US, Xtremepush is an Omnichannel Customer Engagement Platform powered by a built-in CDP. It enables high-velocity companies to build, grow, and retain strong customer relationships through personalised, relevant, and timely communication. With a true single customer view at its core, Xtremepush provides actionable customer intelligence that drives engagement, conversion, and revenue across all channels, while putting customer retention first. At Xtremepush, we believe that diversity adds incredible value to our teams, our products, and our culture. We don’t just accept differences, we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products and our community. As an equal opportunity employer, we stay true to our mission by ensuring that our place can be anyone’s place regardless of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.