Director of Platform Engineering
UK Remote (must be based in the UK)
£110,000 – £125,000 + Equity + Bonus
🌍 Growing start-up | Build a team | Series A funded
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a mission-driven company building the future of network automation. As Director of Platform Engineering, you’ll play a key role in owning infrastructure operations, growing a squad of engineers, scaling internal platforms, and enabling engineering teams to build securely and reliably at pace.
🎯 Key Details:
This is primarily a leadership role, but you'll remain hands-on with day-to-day engineering and operational decisions. We're looking for someone who has grown with a fast-paced start-up or scale-up. For example, from SEED through Series A or B funding rounds. You should be comfortable driving technical direction while supporting and scaling high-performing teams. Experience navigating security and compliance standards such as SOC 2 is a strong plus.
👩💻 Key Responsibilities of the Role:
* Oversee infrastructure operations, prioritising stability, system visibility, and efficient resource usage
* Take ownership of cloud environments (primarily AWS), ensuring scalable, secure, and cost-effective architecture
* Lead and develop distributed engineering teams across platform, infrastructure, and data
* Build and maintain robust internal tooling and services that enhance developer workflows
* Promote a culture of automation and continuous improvement
* Shape and deliver a platform roadmap that treats internal teams as core users
* Ensure infrastructure aligns with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements
* Work closely with product and engineering groups to ensure platform consistency
✅ What You’ll Bring:
* Demonstrated leadership experience in scaling technical teams within fast-moving environments
* 10+ years of hands-on engineering experience, with extensive use of AWS
* Deep familiarity with platform engineering or infrastructure roles in a SaaS business ideally
* Proficiency with modern DevOps practices, container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes), infrastructure-as-code, and monitoring stacks
* History of managing teams, ideally remote
* A track record of delivering complex technical initiatives at speed
* Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to align technical and business goals
💡 Bonus if you have:
* Experience building or supporting high-performance data platforms (e.g. stream processing, change data capture)
* Familiarity with Python, Django, or Golang
* Contributions to open-source communities or tools
* Working knowledge of Postgres, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions)
* Interest or experience in developer productivity tools and AI-assisted engineering
* Understanding of network systems, protocols, or distributed computing challenges
What's on Offer 💚
* Salary up to £125k + equity + bonus
* 100% remote from anywhere in the UK
* Unlimited holiday
* Company wide events and team socials
* High-trust, high-impact culture
* Work with cutting-edge open-source tools in a collaborative, fast-moving environment
* Supportive team and strong learning/development culture
Interview Process:
* Intro chat
* Technical Interview
* Panel & meet the team
Please Note: This is a UK-remote role. You must be UK-based and we are unable to offer visa sponsorship at this time.