Platform Engineer: Platform Enablement

About Us

Launched in 2019, Constructor is an AI-first ecommerce search and discovery platform that helps shoppers find the right products at the right time and enables leading global e-commerce brands to drive meaningful revenue and conversion gains.

About the Role

You’re a cloud-focused Platform Engineer with a strong background in platform engineering, DevOps, and a passion for automating and optimizing infrastructure at scale. You thrive in environments that offer autonomy, but you also enjoy collaborating with diverse teams to drive innovative solutions. With solid hands-on experience in AWS and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), you are adept at designing, building, and maintaining highly reliable cloud infrastructure. Your problem-solving skills and proactive attitude make you a go-to person for infrastructure advice and guidance.

As a Platform Enablement Engineer on our distributed Constructor platform engineering team, you’ll play a key role in shaping and scaling the backbone of our infrastructure. You’ll collaborate closely with software engineers to ensure their infrastructure needs are met, work with platform teams to design scalable, high-performance systems, and partner with security experts to implement cutting-edge security practices.

• Experience: 3+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering, with a focus on cloud infrastructure.

• Cloud Expertise: Deep experience in AWS infrastructure management and automation tools like CloudFormation, CDK, or Terraform.

• Monitoring & Observability: Proficiency in monitoring systems such as Prometheus, ElasticSearch, VictoriaMetrics, or similar tools, with a focus on ensuring high availability and performance.

• Provide Expert Guidance: Advise software engineers on best practices and strategies for managing infrastructure, ensuring seamless integration with application development workflows.

• Build & Scale Infrastructure: Design and implement new solutions to enhance system reliability, scalability, and observability across our AWS infrastructure.

• Optimize & Innovate: Continuously evaluate and improve existing systems, finding smarter, more efficient ways to deliver infrastructure solutions.

• Cross-Account AWS Management: Set up, maintain, and scale cross-account AWS environments, ensuring security and compliance are always top priorities.

• Enhance CI/CD Pipelines: Improve continuous integration and continuous delivery workflows to streamline development and deployment cycles.

• Automate & Streamline: Automate critical infrastructure updates and other routine processes to reduce manual intervention and increase operational efficiency.

Benefits

• 🏝️ Unlimited vacation time - we strongly encourage all of our employees take at least 3 weeks per year

• 🌎 Fully remote team - choose where you live

• 🛋️ Work from home stipend! We want you to have the resources you need to set up your home office

• 💻 Apple laptops provided for new employees

• 🧑‍🎓 Training and development budget for every employee, refreshed each year

• 👪 Maternity & Paternity leave for qualified employees

• 🧠 Work with smart people who will help you grow and make a meaningful impact

• 💵 This position has a base salary range between $80k and $120k USD. The offer varies on many factors including job related knowledge, skills, experience, and interview results.

• 🎉 Regular team offsites to connect and collaborate

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Constructor

At Constructor.io we are committed to cultivating a work environment that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive. As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome individuals of all backgrounds and provide equal opportunities to all applicants regardless of their education, diversity of opinion, race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or affiliation in any other protected group.

Studies have shown that women and people of color may be less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every one of the qualifications listed. Our primary interest is in finding the best candidate for the job. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of our listed qualifications.

3+ years in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering; deep AWS experience; infrastructure automation with CloudFormation, CDK, or Terraform; and monitoring experience with Prometheus, ElasticSearch, or VictoriaMetrics.

Key Responsibilities

• advising engineers
• building infrastructure
• optimizing systems

Skills & Tools

AWS, CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, Prometheus, ElasticSearch, VictoriaMetrics

Job Details

• Category: Engineering
• Seniority: Mid Level
• Commitment: Full Time
• Workplace: Remote — Munich, Bavaria, Germany
• Salary: USD 80,000 – 120,000 / year
• Languages: English

Benefits

• Generous paid time off
• Generous parental leave

About Constructor

An AI-first ecommerce search and discovery platform that helps shoppers find products and grow revenue. — Industry: Information Technology