Senior Platform Engineer

About the role

Swarmia, a SaaS product that helps engineering organizations ship software faster, is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to build and operate the production systems its customers rely on. The infrastructure runs on Google Cloud and is managed with Terraform. This is the first person to be fully dedicated to Platform & Infrastructure work with this title.

Key responsibilities

• Help product teams run their Kubernetes payloads and automate manual steps
• Design and implement infrastructure changes with Terraform
• Optimize application performance and resource utilization
• Analyze bottlenecks and cloud cost trends, and propose fixes
• Configure VPCs and segment production networks
• Write documentation and playbooks
• Set up monitoring, SLO alerting and automated disaster recovery
• Review security posture in Google Security Command Center and tune PostgreSQL performance
• Implement compliance requirements and automate repetitive operational tasks

Required profile

• Deep infrastructure expertise and a generalist mindset
• Ability to learn quickly; prior knowledge of the stack is not expected
• Experience with production systems that scale

Required skills

• Terraform and Google Cloud (GKE, PubSub)
• Kubernetes
• PostgreSQL and pg_repack
• TypeScript, React, Node.js, Apollo, slonik (training provided)

What we offer

• Salary of 70-90k EUR plus equity
• Paid annual vacation with 10 extra days for new employees
• Flexible remote/office balance, with no requirement to work every day in Helsinki
• Onboarding buddy, team training and regular 1:1s