Senior Platform Engineer

Salary: £50,000 - 80,000 per year

Requirements

• Strong experience building cloud-native platforms on AWS, GCP, or Azure, with a deep understanding and hands-on experience of Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in Go, particularly for building backend services, CLIs, or Kubernetes controllers/operators.
• Experience with GitOps and CI/CD systems, and knowledge of building reliable, automated delivery pipelines.
• Understanding of distributed systems and experience designing scalable, resilient architectures.
• Experience building self-service platforms or internal developer platforms (IDPs).
• A strong focus on developer experience, usability, and reducing cognitive load through good abstractions.
• Clear communication skills and enjoyment of collaborating across teams to drive platform adoption.
• Experience with data technologies and processes, such as streaming and batch processes and large data storage systems, is nice to have.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on the design and implementation of platform capabilities using Kubernetes-native patterns and event-driven architectures.
• Drive the adoption of platform engineering principles by building reusable abstractions and self-service workflows for internal users.
• Design and implement Kubernetes controllers/operators in Go to automate infrastructure and application lifecycle management.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to growing platform engineering practices across our pillar in the Data and ML Platform teams.
• Collaborate across teams to align on platform interfaces, abstractions, and shared infrastructure patterns.
• Support the hiring of new engineers as we expand the team, setting the bar on quality of code and collaboration.

Technologies:

• AWS
• Azure
• Backend
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• GCP
• GitOps
• Support
• Kubernetes
• DevOps

More:

We are Just Eat Takeaway.com, a leading global online delivery platform with a vision to empower everyday convenience. Our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe. You will join our Intelligence Platform Core team, which sits at the heart of our new Data & ML Platforms on AWS, creating self-service experiences for running data and ML workflows without exposing the complexity of Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure. This role is based in Bristol, with three days a week in our Bristol office and two days working from home. You will be the second full-time engineer in the team, with the opportunity to shape our platform vision and team culture as we grow. We work closely with our Data and ML Platform teams in an advisory capacity, sharing best practices and advice. Our culture is fun, fast-paced and supportive, and we are committed to inclusion, diversity and belonging. We also invite you to explore our career site to learn more about our people, culture and company.

last updated 41 week of 2026