Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

Requirements

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a similar technical field
• 3-5 years of hands-on experience
• Experience developing production-ready infrastructure management tooling with either Python or Golang
• Familiarity with at least one of the following:
  • Observability Tools (e.g. Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana)
  • Databases (e.g. Postgres, DuckDB)
  • Event Streaming platforms (e.g. Kafka)
  • Container Orchestration (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP
• Experience with CI/CD systems (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab, GitHub Actions)

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 our services scalable and highly available, automating wherever possible
• Develop observability and orchestration tooling to allow our customers to monitor and manage their deployments
• Contribute to disaster recovery, backup and redundancy tooling and strategy
• Assist in improving the quality of our codebase by building new tools and processes

Perks and Benefits

• Highly competitive salary
• Voluntary Pension Plan (match up to 5%)
• Private Healthcare Insurance
• Comprehensive Life Insurance
• 25 days holiday plus public holidays
• Two charity days a year
• Daily Meal Allowance
• Access to outstanding learning materials and courses
• Sports and hobby clubs, subsidised by Thought Machine
• All the latest tech you need
• Huge range of healthy (and not-so-healthy) snacks, smoothies and drinks
• A talented and experienced team as your colleagues
• An environment where we encourage learning and progress