Senior Platform Engineer

**What is Hubtype**:
Hubtype is building tools that help companies communicate with their customers on messaging apps like WhatsApp or Telegram. Some of the largest companies in Europe (like easyJet, Levi's, Decathlon, Volkswagen or Allianz) use our products to attend to millions of customers every month. Our mission is to create better business-consumer relationships by embracing simple, meaningful, and customer-centric communication.

We are growing fast and we're in a unique position to become the leaders in the EU conversational apps space thanks to our award-winning, open-source chatbot technology, and exclusive partnerships.

**About the role**

The objective of the Platform Engineer at Hubtype is to contribute to the development, deployment, and maintenance of our SaaS platform. As well as to keep the infrastructure serving the platform and the whole company activities secure, available and compliance. We are ISO27001 certified and our customers are very demanding in terms of security and privacy.

This role will focus on leveraging AWS, Terraform, and Postgres to build and optimize our platform infrastructure, ensuring high availability, security, and performance. And also the observability of the platform with CloudWatch, New Relic and PagerDuty.

The team you are joining is also responsible for the back end part that integrates with the messaging platforms and the conversational apps. This means developing in Python over Django and Celery. This is optional for this position.

**Typical responsibilities of a Platform Engineer at Hubtype include**:

- Architect and maintain the AWS infrastructure, leveraging services like Fargate, S3, RDS, Lambda, and CloudFront among others.
- Utilize Terraform to provision and manage cloud resources, ensuring infrastructure is scalable, reliable, and cost-effective.
- Optimize database performance and manage data integrity for the Postgres database.
- Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable efficient and automated software delivery.
- Monitor platform performance, identify bottlenecks, and proactively optimize system resources.
- Implement and maintain security best practices, helping us maintain the ISO27001 certification and providing responses to customer queries about platform security and architecture.
- Troubleshoot and resolve platform-related issues, and participate in on-call rotations if required.
- Stay updated with the latest industry trends and emerging technologies related to platform engineering.
- (Optional) Collaborate with the Product Engineers team to design and implement scalable and efficient backend systems using Django/Python.

**Requirements**:

- 5+ years experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, Cloud Management or DevOps
- English & Spanish Proficiency
- Proven experience implementing and maintaining security best practices and tooling to comply with security standards and compliance in Cloud Environments
- Nice to have: experience in AWS security tooling like WAF, Guard Duty, Config, Security Hub etc
- Proven experience with AWS services, particularly Fargate, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront and S3
- Advanced skills in SQL Database administration, preferable PostgreSQL.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools, preferably Terraform
- Ability to work in a collaborative team environment as well as independently, and meet required schedules and timelines.
- Understand business requirements, propose solutions and implement them. Effective problem solving skills.
- Create good and clear technical documentation
- Nice to have: Proficiency in Django/Python web development and/or debugging, including experience with frameworks, such as Django Rest Framework
- Nice to have: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent structured training.

**Benefits**

**What we offer**
- A competitive salary in the range of 45.000€ to 52.000€ per year, depending on your experience and skills.
- The opportunity to be part of a flexible and collaborative remote team.
- Challenging projects that will allow you to grow both personally and professionally.
- An inclusive, team-oriented work environment where your input will always be valued.

**B&P**
- Hubtype seeks top global talent and we offer a competitive salary.
- Full-time remote work.
- Working with amazing people from all over the world, with different cultures, experiences, and knowledge.
- Vacation: 27 days per year + bank holidays + your birthday + volunteer day.
- Workstation budget for making great work happen at home.
- Attractive Benefits & Perks Plan, centered in Learning & Development + Wellbeing.

Warm regards, The Hubtype Team