Staff Platform Engineer
DeepLMachine Translation company
London, United KingdomLead
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About the role
TL;DR
Staff Platform Engineer to build and operate DeepL's hybrid compute infrastructure.
- •DeepL is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to join their Hybrid Platform Engineering team.
- •This role involves building and operating the compute layer for DeepL's products and research, including Kubernetes control plane, node lifecycle, networking, and storage across on-prem and cloud infrastructure.
- •Key Responsibilities Own the reliability, capacity, and cost efficiency of DeepL's CPU and GPU compute infrastructure.
- •Shape the platform's architecture and drive the technical work of deepening the hybrid model.
- •Design, build, and operate production-grade Kubernetes clusters across cloud and on-prem infrastructure.
- •Define infrastructure-as-code and platform standards, strengthening observability and security.
- •Mentor engineers and lead incident response for hybrid infrastructure.
- •Requirements Deep, hands-on Kubernetes expertise with experience designing, building, and operating clusters at scale.
- •Depth in public cloud (AWS preferred) or on-prem infrastructure.
- •Strong networking and Linux debugging skills.
- •Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and GitOps (ArgoCD).
- •Software engineering skills in Go or Python.
Required skills
KubernetesAWSTerraformArgoCDGoPythonLinuxDockerGitBashCI/CD
Domain expertise
developer-toolsai
Benefits & perks
Virtual Shares, Team events, Hacking sessions, 30 days of annual leave, Mental health resources, Competitive benefits
Tech stack
KubernetesAWSTerraformArgoCDGoPythonLinuxDockerGitBash