Senior Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

Requirements

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar technical field
• 5+ years of hands-on experience
• Experience developing production-ready infrastructure management tooling with either Python or Golang
• Familiarity with observability tools, databases, event streaming platforms, and container orchestration
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience with CI/CD systems

Nice to Haves

• Experience supporting production systems in high-consistency transactional environments

What You'll Be Doing

• Support the engineering team in building reliable, scalable applications
• Help design and build tools to make services scalable and highly available, automating wherever possible
• Develop observability and orchestration tooling for customer deployments
• Contribute to disaster recovery, backup, and redundancy tooling and strategy
• Assist in improving the quality of the codebase by building new tools and processes

Perks and Benefits

• Highly competitive salary and commission
• Pension plan (match up to 5%)
• Life insurance (3x annual salary)
• Competitive maternity (six months fully paid) and paternity leave (four weeks fully paid)
• Shared parental leave
• 25 days holiday and bank holidays
• Flexible working hours
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Electric car scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Access to outstanding learning materials and courses
• Sports and hobby clubs, subsidised by Thought Machine
• All the latest tech you need
• Start the day properly with fresh fruit and cereals
• Huge range of healthy (and not-so-healthy) snacks, smoothies and drinks
• A talented and experienced team as your colleagues
• An environment that encourages learning and progress
• Two charity days a year
• Weekly food pop-up