Cloud platform engineer

About this role

Writer is experiencing an incredible market moment as generative AI has taken the world by storm. We're looking for a cloud platform engineer to establish our cloud platform team, focusing on building and scaling our multi-cloud architecture across AWS, GCP and Azure regions. In this founding role, you'll architect and implement highly scalable systems that handle complex multi-tenant workloads while ensuring proper tenant isolation and security.

As a cloud platform engineer, you'll work closely with our development teams to build robust, automated solutions for environment buildout, tenant management, and cross-region capabilities. You'll design and implement systems that ensure proper tenant isolation while enabling efficient environment lifecycle management. This is a unique opportunity to establish our cloud platform team and have a direct impact on our platform's scalability and security, working with cutting-edge technologies and solving complex distributed systems challenges.

You will report to Charles Cooke, head of cloud operations.

‍♀️ Your responsibilities:

• Establish and lead the cloud platform team

• Architect and implement multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP and Azure regions

• Design and build highly scalable, distributed systems for multi-tenant workloads

• Define and implement best practices for automated infrastructure across cloud providers

• Architect and implement tenant isolation mechanisms to ensure data security and compliance

• Create and manage environment lifecycle automation for dev/qa/demo environments

• Design and implement cross-region capabilities and active-active deployments

• Develop tenant migration and pod management solutions

• Collaborate with development teams to understand tenant requirements and constraints

• Implement infrastructure as code for region-level deployments

• Monitor and optimize tenant isolation and security

• Document tenant management processes and best practices

• Stay current with industry trends in multi-tenant architectures

• Participate in on-call rotation for critical platform services

• Contribute to technical decisions around tenant isolation and region management

• Mentor and grow the cloud platform team

• Implement and maintain deployment automation and CI/CD pipelines

• Design and optimize Kubernetes infrastructure for multi-tenant workloads

• Drive infrastructure cost optimization and efficiency

⭐️ Is this you?

• Have 8+ years of experience in cloud platform engineering or related role (site reliability engineering)

• Have 3+ years of experience leading engineering teams

• Are passionate about building secure, scalable multi-tenant platforms

• Have extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

• Are proficient in infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)

• Have deep experience with multi-tenant architectures and tenant isolation

• Can write clean, maintainable code in Python, Go, or similar languages

• Understand containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Have proven experience with cross-region deployments and active-active architectures

• Are comfortable working with multiple development teams

• Can communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Take ownership of projects and drive them to completion

• Are excited about building automated infrastructure solutions

• Have a strong focus on security and tenant isolation

• Are comfortable with on-call responsibilities

• Have experience with agile development methodologies

• Have experience establishing new teams and best practices

• Can balance technical leadership with hands-on implementation

• Are excited about solving complex distributed systems challenges

• Have experience with multi-cloud architectures and hybrid deployments

Benefits & perks (UK full-time employees)

• Generous PTO, plus company holidays

• Comprehensive medical and dental insurance

• Paid parental leave for all parents (12 weeks)

• Fertility and family planning support

• Early-detection cancer testing through Galleri

• Competitive pension scheme and company contribution

• Annual work-life stipends for:

  • Home office setup, cell phone, internet

  • Wellness stipend for gym, massage/chiropractor, personal training, etc.

  • Learning and development stipend

• Company-wide off-sites and team off-sites

• Competitive compensation and company stock options