Senior Platform Engineer

THE TEAM

Our engineers have been involved since the founding of the company and understand our business better than anyone. We are proud to be building the best team, software and processes with a focus on quality without cutting corners. As a 100% remote working team, our engineers are based in more than 20 locations across the UK and Europe.

Form3 have recently completed a third round of funding, raising $160 million meaning we are looking to grow our Engineering team significantly as part of our 5-year road-map. As a result, we have multiple vacancies open for this position, as well as across other roles in our Engineering team. With this in mind, if this role isn’t the right fit for you, please do take a look at our other Engineering vacancies on our website.

THE ROLE

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer with a passion for architecting and building cloud native systems. Within this role you will have the opportunity to work on our own private cloud which is hosted in Form3 data centres and to help us build the next generation Form3 platform which will run across multiple public clouds.

TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT

Go, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, TravisCI, Docker, Terraform, Vault, Consul, Linkerd, Redis, Prometheus, Postgres, Cockroach DB, Elasticsearch, PACT, Github, DevOps, TDD, BDD, Pair Programming

FORM3’S PRIVATE CLOUD TECHNOLOGY

Observability: Prometheus | CI/CD: Flux | Networking: Cilium | Cloud hosting: EKS, GKE | Messaging: NATS | Storage: CockroachDB | On-prem infrastructure management: Terraform with Terraform Enterprise | Virtualization: Cloudstack, KVM & Digital rebar

FORM3’S MULTI PUBLIC CLOUD TECHNOLOGY

Observability: Prometheus | CI/CD: Flux v2 | Networking: Linkerd2 | Cloud hosting: EKS, GKE, AKS | Messaging: NATS JETSTREAM | Storage: CockroachDB | Infrastructure management: Terraform with Terraform Enterprise | Virtualization: AWS EC2, GCP Compute

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• Experience in Infrastructure as Code patterns and practices (Terraform is a plus)
• Knowledge of networking and DNS
• A background in Software Engineering and solid programming experience is beneficial but not essential (preferably Go but we’re flexible on this)
• Knowledge of Kubernetes (ideally)
• Enthusiasm towards building the next generation Form3 platform and an interest in technical challenges around how to make a platform cloud agnostic and scaleable in order to process billions of payments

• 30 days annual leave plus public holidays
• Remote friendly environment
• Remote working equipment allowance
• Health and wellness allowance
• Flexible working arrangements
• Learning days, Udemy and educational reimbursements
• Primary caregiver leave
• 4 hours of “investment time” per week, to spend working on projects that you are passionate about improving
• Mental Health support via Spill
• Perlego subscription
• Full details are available on our careers page