Senior Platform Engineer

sennder is Europe’s leading digital freight forwarder. In a traditional industry we are moving fast to digitize and automate all road logistics processes. We are a growing team looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to help us on our journey to revolutionize road freight logistics. You would join our Platform team in the Barcelona office.
We value humility and we're as interested in your character as we are in your talent. Please apply, even if you feel you only meet part of our listed criteria. Diversity drives our innovation and we offer a collaborative, dynamic and international work environment. Just be yourself. We are excited to meet you and for you to join us in shaping the future of the logistics industry in Europe.

ABOUT THE ROLE
As a Senior Platform Engineer you’ll work on interesting responsibilities like driving initiatives to build and improve our CI/CD, metrics, logging, and much more. You’ll be collaborating with the most innovative and diverse colleagues such as Engineers, QA, and Products to help in making programmatic technical decisions and lead excursions.

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL
- Manage and improve sennder’s highly demanding platform with state-of the art technologies such as Kubernetes, serverless computing, Elasticsearch, Postgres, message and event queues, Elastic Beanstalk on AWS, and much more
- Taking ownership of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines
- Extending monitoring and alerting tools with a focus on business processes
- Improving platform security
- Become a mentor for other developers on DevOps and share expertise

PREFERABLY YOU HAVE
- Being keen on knowledge sharing
- In depth experience of Kubernetes and AWS
- Working with Linux and knowledge of scripting languages like BASH, Python
- Assertive communication skills for an effective collaboration between engineering, product, and operations
- Never stop learning and being particularly passionate about technology
- Experience in configuring and running services on AWS
- Constant drive for improving processes and thinking in long-term wins
- Fluency in English (in both written and verbal communication)

**TECHNOLOGY STACK**:

- Cloud providers: Mostly AWS, some GCP services
- Main AWS services: EC2, ECS, RDS, Elasticache, Lambda, SQS, S3
- IaC: Terraform
- Kubernetes (EKS), Helm
- Amazon RDS, PostgreSQL, Kafka (Confluent Cloud)
- CI/CD with GitLab CI
- Monitoring: Cloudwatch, Datadog, Sentry
- Python, Bash

ABOUT sennder
sennder is moving trucks with the power of data to unlock endless and sustainable capacity at unparalleled quality. Through our proprietary transportation operating system, built by our in-house tech teams, we not only connect shippers to our fleet of thousands of trucks, but also improve how they move products in sustainable, cost-efficient, and transparent ways - making the logistics industry fit for the future. In a traditional industry, we’re growing and moving fast to digitally automate all road logistics processes.
We are building a curious team that is driven by an ambitious desire to solve the toughest logistics puzzles. What others may consider uncertainty, we see as an opportunity to learn and be proactive. We invite you to go on this journey with us and be part of one of Europe’s inspiring growth stories as we fast-forward road logistics into digitalization.

Get to know us, our culture, green business, funding history, and more on our blog here.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
At sennder, we want to maximize the individual’s potential for all employees and reinforce an inclusive culture and environment of continuous learning that empowers people to succeed as a team. In addition to humility, we value commitment, team spirit, respect, and kindness to build trusted relationships across teams. Learn more on our career site.
- A fast growing, start-up-oriented international team of 900+ people with 65+ nationalities spread across 7 country offices with English as our company language.
- A quarterly feedback and review process for personal development, professional growth, and career opportunities. We also use “Objectives and Key Results” for company goals.
- A structured promotion process, providing everyone with fair and transparent career growth.
- Learning and development opportunities on the job and through conversations with your manager.
- Various opportunities to connect with colleagues, formally and informally, digitally or in person (when allowed), through regular team events, company get-togethers, and partnership events with other companies and local organizers.
- FLEX remote working options that enables maximum flexibility to functions where it is usual to be working with a high degree of autonomy.
- When in office: unlimited snacks, drinks, and fruits.
- All interviews are currently conducted on a remote basis.

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