Senior Software Engineer II

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential technology organization in their search for a Senior Software Engineer II to join their Infrastructure Services team in London. This is a hybrid role requiring onsite presence Tuesday through Friday, with remote flexibility on Mondays.

In this position, you will design, build, and evolve core systems that power both the developer platform and key backend services. You will combine strong software engineering fundamentals with deep infrastructure expertise to ensure the platform is scalable, reliable, and secure. This role goes beyond operating infrastructure—you will build production-grade backend services, design cloud-native systems, and own the CI/CD and runtime environments that support the product ecosystem.

Responsibilities

Backend & Platform Service Engineering

• Design, build, and maintain production-grade backend services (primarily Java, Go, or Python) that power deployment orchestration, internal APIs, and developer platform capabilities
• Contribute to architectural decisions including service boundaries, API design, persistence layers, scalability strategies, and fault tolerance
• Improve performance, reliability, and maintainability of platform-owned services through strong testing practices and thoughtful system design
• Maintain and evolve shared services owned by the Infrastructure Services team

CI/CD & Developer Platform

• Own, design, and optimize CI/CD systems supporting a distributed product ecosystem—reducing build times, deployment friction, and manual overhead
• Implement safe, automated deployment strategies (e.g., blue/green, canary, rollback automation) to increase deployment confidence
• Provide reusable templates, pipeline patterns, and tooling that improve self-service capabilities for product teams

Cloud Infrastructure & Automation

• Design and maintain scalable, secure AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or AWS CDK)
• Architect and optimize Docker images and container workflows; support orchestration platforms such as ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes
• Improve environment consistency, drift detection, and infrastructure reliability across staging and production systems

Observability, Reliability & Security

• Strengthen the observability stack—metrics, logging, tracing, alerting—leveraging tools such as Grafana and CloudWatch
• Use telemetry and SLO-driven insights to diagnose issues and proactively improve system reliability
• Contribute to security-focused improvements across CI/CD, IAM, secrets management, and cloud resource hardening

Engineering Standards & Collaboration

• Establish and promote high standards in service design, code quality, infrastructure patterns, and automation practices
• Partner closely with product engineering teams to reduce operational toil and increase developer velocity
• Collaborate with platform, infrastructure, and security teams to align on shared best practices

What We're Looking For

• Relevant experience in backend engineering, platform engineering, developer infrastructure, or cloud-native software roles, with strong hands-on technical depth
• Proven experience building and operating production backend services with ownership of APIs, service reliability, and scalability
• Strong programming skills in at least one backend language (e.g., Java, Go, Python), with solid software engineering fundamentals
• Experience designing and supporting distributed systems, with understanding of concurrency, networking fundamentals, failure modes, and scaling patterns
• Deep familiarity with modern cloud environments (AWS preferred)
• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration platforms (ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes)
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or AWS CDK
• Strong understanding of CI/CD principles and hands-on experience building and maintaining deployment pipelines
• Knowledge of observability tools and practices (metrics, logging, tracing)

How We Work With You

Our talent team at Get A Job.ai will guide you through the entire process. When you apply through our platform, one of our experienced recruiters will conduct an initial screening to understand your background and ensure alignment with the role requirements. We will then submit your profile to our client for consideration. If selected to move forward, we will coordinate all interview stages and provide support throughout. Please do not contact the client directly—all communication should flow through Get A Job.ai to ensure a smooth and professional process.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process with our recruiting team.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Get A Job.ai is committed to fostering an inclusive recruitment process. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences. If you require accommodation during the application or interview process, please inform your recruiter.