Backend Engineer – Platform – Stacks | UK | Remote

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential observability platform organization seeking a Backend Engineer to join their Platform team. This is a remote position available to candidates in Germany, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, or the UK.

Our client operates a critical internal engineering platform that powers business operations at scale. You'll join the Application Core Services group, specifically the Stacks squad, which owns the systems that create, configure, reconcile, migrate, and operate cloud environments for thousands of organizations. This work sits at the intersection of product, platform, and operations—building control-plane services that keep infrastructure state aligned across multiple backend systems and cloud regions.

Responsibilities

As a Backend Engineer on the Stacks squad, you will:

• Design, build, and operate reconciliation systems to track desired state, detect and repair drift across templates, configuration, and actual customer environments
• Collaborate across services to ensure lifecycle workflows remain reliable, observable, and resilient
• Improve operational efficiency by reducing deployment complexity and contributing to state reconciliation projects
• Manage rollout mechanisms for provisioned plugins, dashboards, data sources, versions, release channels, and configuration at scale
• Support new region and cluster rollouts, including operational paths to bring environments online safely
• Improve incident response and recovery paths for state misalignment, reconciliation failures, and integration issues
• Partner with Product, Infrastructure, Support, and adjacent squads on customer-impacting lifecycle work
• Contribute to roadmap planning, technical design, on-call improvements, and long-term simplification efforts
• Own the production behavior of systems you build, including runbooks, dashboards, alerts, reconciliation safety, and recovery procedures
• Debug across service boundaries and make careful changes in systems affecting customer environments

What We're Looking For

Required qualifications:

• At least 1 year of fully remote work experience
• Experience working on a SaaS platform with familiarity in distributed systems concepts (scalability, multi-tenancy, high availability)
• Professional experience with Golang, willing to work across both backend service and application code
• Deep care for developer and user experience and product quality
• Experience contributing to project delivery from initial brainstorming through shipping to customers
• Ability to write clean, well-tested software that other engineers can understand, operate, and maintain
• Capability to take on well-defined tasks, break them down, and execute iteratively to deliver working solutions
• Willingness to collaborate across teams and align work with the needs of other squads and stakeholders
• Familiarity with Kubernetes in AWS, GCP, or Azure, and exposure to infrastructure-as-code tooling (Helm, Terraform, Jsonnet, etc.)
• Experience participating in blameless incident response and contributing to post-incident reviews

Bonus qualifications:

• Experience with TypeScript/Node.js
• Experience with Kubernetes control-plane patterns, operators, reconcilers, or desired-state systems
• Experience with Jsonnet/Tanka, Terraform, Flux, Argo, or similar deployment/configuration tooling
• Experience working on SaaS provisioning, tenancy, regional expansion, plugin rollout, or customer lifecycle systems
• Experience with incident response involving configuration drift, partial failure, or cross-service state mismatch

This organization actively embraces AI-assisted development practices and integrates these technologies into engineering workflows. They seek engineers who thrive on building production systems where correctness, scalability, and operational clarity are paramount. You should be comfortable collaborating asynchronously across time zones and taking ownership of critical infrastructure. The team is small and operates with high independence—you'll lead major projects, coordinate across service boundaries, and help define technical direction.

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our talent team will review your background and schedule an initial screening call to discuss your experience, technical skills, and career goals. We'll prepare you for each stage of our client's interview process and provide guidance on what to expect.

Once we've confirmed mutual interest, we will formally submit your profile to our client for consideration. Throughout the process, we serve as your advocate and primary point of contact. Please do not contact the client directly, as all communication should flow through our recruiting team to ensure a smooth and professional experience.

Pay

For candidates in the United Kingdom, the compensation range for this role at the client is GBP 72,000 - GBP 90,000, plus equity (RSUs). Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. If you are applying from Germany, Ireland, Spain, or Sweden, our recruiter will discuss your specific market's defined pay range at the beginning of the process.

The role includes 30 days annual leave, remote work flexibility, and participation in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation when ready.

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