Spill

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Spill

full-time

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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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
infrastructureDevOpssite reliabilityinfrastructure as codeTerraformcontainerisationorchestrationmonitoringmetrics visualisationalerting
Soft Skills
problem-solvingtechnical judgmentclear communicationdocumentationpost-incident reviewsmotivationcuriosityresourcefulness