Senior Platform Engineer – Infrastructure, Security

Strive for Startups

Senior Platform Engineer managing Google Cloud infrastructure at a fast-growing SaaS company. Lead security and cost optimization while collaborating with engineering teams.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeHelsinki • 🇫🇮 FinlandSenior💰 €70,000 - €90,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetesPrometheusPythonSQLTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own our Google Cloud infrastructure: GKE clusters, Cloud SQL, PubSub, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, and the services that run on top of them
Lead our logging infrastructure rebuild — moving from a high-cost, high-convenience setup toward a tiered architecture that balances cost and debuggability
Drive infra cost optimization as an ongoing owned responsibility, not a one-time project
Manage and improve our CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) and deployment automation
Own our observability stack: Prometheus, Grafana, alerting, SLOs
Review our security posture in Google Security Command Center, implement improvements, and own our response to security audits and customer security reviews
Configure and maintain IAM, GCP Secret Manager, VPC firewall rules, Kubernetes network policies, and namespace isolation across our private GKE cluster
Design and practice disaster recovery procedures
Automate away operational toil - if something happens more than twice, it should not happen manually a third time
Write documentation and playbooks; we prefer collaborative problem-solving over working in silos

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience as an infrastructure, platform, or DevOps engineer in a production environment
Solid experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or equivalent)
Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes and container orchestration
Experience with infrastructure-as-code, preferably Terraform
Proficiency in Python and Bash for automation and scripting
Hands-on experience with GCP or a comparable cloud platform
Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana or equivalent)
Cloud security fundamentals: IAM, least-privilege access, GCP Secret Manager, audit logging, network controls, private cluster configuration
Strong written and verbal communication — you will work across teams and document what you build.

Benefits

Comp & perks

70-90k€ annual salary plus meaningful equity.
Paid annual vacation with 10 extra days for new employees.
Flexible remote/office balance — our whole Product & Engineering organization is based in Finland. We value meeting teammates in person, but you don’t have to come to the Helsinki office every day.
Great work-life balance — we’re a startup, but we don’t work at an unsustainable pace (many of us have kids and other responsibilities beyond work).

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Hard Skills & Tools

Google CloudGKECloud SQLPubSubCloud LoggingCloud MonitoringCI/CDGitHub ActionsKubernetesTerraform

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborative problem-solvingdocumentation