Software Engineer (remote Europe)
Overview
Spacelift is an infrastructure orchestration platform that manages your entire infrastructure lifecycle — provisioning, configuration and governance. Spacelift integrates with all your infrastructure tooling (e.g. Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Ansible) to provide a single integrated workflow so you can deliver secure, cost-effective, and resilient infrastructure, fast.
Job Description
Founded in 2020 by long-time DevOps practitioner Marcin Wyszynski and successful entrepreneur Pawel Hytry, Spacelift has raised $31.3M in funding. As a software engineer, you will work with your product team to build and extend new features, contribute to the discovery phase, work on integration with IaC, add support for new policies, or enhance Spacelift's capabilities. The backend tech stack includes Go, AWS, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, OpenPolicyAgent, OpenTofu/Terraform FOSS, Infrastructure-as-Code, CloudNative/Kubernetes, Datadog, and Launchdarkly. Our team consists of 7-8 backend and frontend engineers, a UX/UI designer, and a product manager.
Responsibilities
- - Implement solutions in Go that work reliably at scale with a strong focus on readability and testability;
- - Tackle sophisticated technical challenges involving multiple technologies;
- - Work closely with your product team and other teams to design, implement, and deploy new features on the Spacelift platform;
- - Participate in discovery sessions with Spacelift users and be curious about their problems, the way they work, and their challenges;
- - Be proactive; provide initiative and technical leadership.
Required Skills
- - Self-motivated and high-performing, with a passion for both the business and the tech;
- - Hands-on experience with Go, 1 year or more is a plus;
- - 4+ years of experience in software engineering;
- - Good understanding of at least one public cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure);
- - Product-driven and strong interest in DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Developer Experience topics;
- - Experience working on developer tooling internally or externally is a plus;
- - Ideally, you worked with an IaC tool — OpenTofu/Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, or AWS CloudFormation – or CloudNative/Kubernetes;
- - You have proven experience solving complex technical problems and taking initiative in addressing them;
- - Experience in early-stage startup is a plus;
- - Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Benefits
- - Strong compensation plan with equity package;
- - 26 days of paid time off annually;
- - B2B contract;
- - Flexible working hours;
- - Monthly allowance to spend on benefits;
- - Option to work from anywhere in the world (CET +/- 3h);
- - Embrace continuous learning with investment days on Fridays;
- - Collaborative hackathons in person each quarter;
- - Be part of a team that values innovation and personal growth.