
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Spill
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Poland
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Salary
💰 £80,000 - £90,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Improve monitoring and alerting across infrastructure and application layers
- Diagnose and reduce production instability, including load spikes and database bottlenecks
- Strengthen our use of Datadog, particularly logging quality and alert signal-to-noise ratio
- Improve capacity planning through testing, monitoring, and forecasting
- Ensure new features ship with appropriate production metrics and reliability safeguards
- Implement and maintain best practices across infrastructure security, compliance, and vulnerability management
- Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident analysis
- Maintain clear and up-to-date infrastructure documentation
- Improve our CI/CD pipeline and overall infrastructure performance
Requirements
- 4+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure, DevOps, platform, or site reliability roles
- Experience maintaining the reliability and scalability of a production SaaS application
- Experience participating in on-call rotations and incident response
- Strong working knowledge of infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform), testing practices, containerisation, and orchestration
- Experience with monitoring, metrics visualisation, and alerting platforms, ideally Datadog
- Strong problem-solving ability and sound technical judgment in ambiguous environments
- Clear communicator who documents decisions and contributes to thoughtful post-incident reviews
- Comfortable getting close to the codebase when needed
- Motivated to improve systems through automation and efficiency gains
- Curious and resourceful — AWS documentation doesn’t intimidate you
- Huge plus if you have: Experience optimising MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Redis; Deep familiarity with AWS; Advanced Datadog experience, particularly around logging and observability; Experience working within SOC2 or ISO27001 environments; Familiarity with Ruby or Ruby on Rails applications.
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare – Excellent medical, dental, & vision coverage for you and your family
- Unlimited holidays – Take the time you need to rest and recharge
- Mental health support – Unlimited, immediate access to professional counseling via Spill
- Retirement contributions – 401k or pension contributions depending on your location
- Remote-first – Work where you’re most productive, with flexibility and trust as the default
- Equity with real upside – Share in the long-term value you help create
- Fully paid parental leave – Up to 16 weeks of paid leave for new parents
- Learning budget – Annual funds for courses, books, or anything that supports your growth
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Hard Skills & Tools
infrastructureDevOpssite reliabilityinfrastructure as codeTerraformcontainerisationorchestrationmonitoringmetrics visualisationalerting
Soft Skills
problem-solvingtechnical judgmentclear communicationdocumentationpost-incident reviewsmotivationcuriosityresourcefulness