Senior Platform Engineer
Senior Platform Engineer (Remote)
FULL-TIME / 100% Remote / Within Europe / Central European Time Zone (CET)
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Skedda is a leading global workplace management platform dedicated to streamlining desk and room reservations and scheduling. We serve over 7,000 customers and nearly two million users, including IBM, Siemens, Mercedes-Benz, and Harvard University.
Today, the product includes functionality such as floor plan visualizations, desk and meeting room booking, visitor management, and utilization reports and analytics. Skedda integrates with key workplace tools like Microsoft365, Google Workspace, and Slack; and has won awards from G2, Capterra, and SoftwareAdvice.
Role Overview
The Senior Platform Engineer will be responsible for designing and maintaining cloud infrastructure, managing DevOps pipelines, ensuring system reliability, and overseeing release management, primarily within Azure. This role demands expertise in PaaS-based cloud infrastructure, security, automation, and CI/CD pipelines, along with a proactive, detail-oriented approach to production environments. As part of a small, highly collaborative remote team, the engineer will play a key role in shaping Skedda’s scalable, high-quality platform while enjoying flexibility, cutting-edge tools, and a strong engineering culture.
Responsibilities
Cloud Infrastructure
Designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure - our Infrastructure Stack: Azure Cloud (PaaS-level resources), Azure DevOps
Implementing infrastructure as code (IaC) using Bicep for Skedda’s cloud resources in Azure
Design and test relevant automations for cloud-resource provisioning, backup and recovery
Implementing and maintaining relevant security and compliance policies
Provide guidance on best practices for cloud infrastructure
DevOps
Management, monitoring, and maintenance of build, test and deployment pipelines in Azure DevOps (for mobile and web products)
Provide guidance on best practices for software delivery and operations
SRE
Incident response, triage, and management
Conducting infrastructure capacity planning and performance tuning
Collaborating with engineers to design and implement scalable and resilient systems
Maintenance and improvement of cloud infrastructure reliability and scalability
Implementing and maintaining disaster recovery procedures
Release Management
Creating and maintaining release schedules
Coordinating the release of software and systems with the engineering team
Identifying and mitigating risks associated with releases
Provide guidance on best practices for release management
About you
You pay significant attention to detail and triple-check your work, particularly when dealing with production systems
You have a strong track record as a reliable engineer that can be entrusted to manage production infrastructure without causing incidents
You make mistakes and learn fast in test/playground environments (avoiding mistakes in production environments)
You honor your word and own whatever you take on
You like small teams
You’re not afraid to ask questions
You want to make a difference in the real world
You’re self-driven
You follow your intuition and sync when needed
You strive for excellence in everything you do
Skills & Experience
5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, and/or SRE
Strong experience with PaaS-based cloud infrastructure in Azure: App Service, Storage, SQL Database, Front Door, Key Vault, Log Analytics Workspace
Strong understanding of cloud-security concepts
Strong scripting skills on the Azure platform (e.g. Azure CLI)
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Experience with Bicep for Azure
Experience with creating and maintaining Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines in YAML
Experience with production deployment changes and releases
Experience with Disaster Recovery
Experience with monitoring and logging tools
Benefits
Competitive salary
Flexible schedule in our fully-remote team
Creative and collaborative work environment
Work directly with our Chief Architect and Co-Founder based in Europe
A thorough, organized engineering onboarding process for quick learning
Hardware of your choice - PC or Mac
Develop with the latest platforms, frameworks, tooling and standards
Work in, and maintain, a zero technical debt environment
Very low production incident count (see status.skedda.com)
Be part of a small team
Be empowered to leave a significant mark on the product and the customers
About us
We’re an international team from 14+ countries with a growing presence in Boston. We place a lot of value on collaborating asynchronously across time zones but also understand the benefits of working together in person. Our team has doubled in size in the last year and continues to grow quickly.
At Skedda, our Mission is to empower organizations to bring workspaces to life. We take feedback from customers seriously and constantly iterate to improve our product. We’re a self-driven, curious, down-to-earth group of people who know how to balance moving quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality. Every team member at Skedda embodies our six core virtues:
We are a community
Quality is at our core
Take ownership
Create momentum every day
Tackle hard problems
Be curious
We are defining the future of the workplace experience, helping businesses to design meaningful, seamless, fully integrated employee experiences and interactions in the hybrid workplace. We’re growing fast with a lot of new opportunities ahead!To learn more about Skedda, please visit https://www.skedda.com/blog/skedda-mission-vision-virtues.
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FULL-TIME / 100% Remote / Within Europe / Central European Time Zone (CET)
____________________________________________________________________________
Skedda is a leading global workplace management platform dedicated to streamlining desk and room reservations and scheduling. We serve over 7,000 customers and nearly two million users, including IBM, Siemens, Mercedes-Benz, and Harvard University.
Today, the product includes functionality such as floor plan visualizations, desk and meeting room booking, visitor management, and utilization reports and analytics. Skedda integrates with key workplace tools like Microsoft365, Google Workspace, and Slack; and has won awards from G2, Capterra, and SoftwareAdvice.
Role Overview
The Senior Platform Engineer will be responsible for designing and maintaining cloud infrastructure, managing DevOps pipelines, ensuring system reliability, and overseeing release management, primarily within Azure. This role demands expertise in PaaS-based cloud infrastructure, security, automation, and CI/CD pipelines, along with a proactive, detail-oriented approach to production environments. As part of a small, highly collaborative remote team, the engineer will play a key role in shaping Skedda’s scalable, high-quality platform while enjoying flexibility, cutting-edge tools, and a strong engineering culture.
Responsibilities
Cloud Infrastructure
Designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure - our Infrastructure Stack: Azure Cloud (PaaS-level resources), Azure DevOps
Implementing infrastructure as code (IaC) using Bicep for Skedda’s cloud resources in Azure
Design and test relevant automations for cloud-resource provisioning, backup and recovery
Implementing and maintaining relevant security and compliance policies
Provide guidance on best practices for cloud infrastructure
DevOps
Management, monitoring, and maintenance of build, test and deployment pipelines in Azure DevOps (for mobile and web products)
Provide guidance on best practices for software delivery and operations
SRE
Incident response, triage, and management
Conducting infrastructure capacity planning and performance tuning
Collaborating with engineers to design and implement scalable and resilient systems
Maintenance and improvement of cloud infrastructure reliability and scalability
Implementing and maintaining disaster recovery procedures
Release Management
Creating and maintaining release schedules
Coordinating the release of software and systems with the engineering team
Identifying and mitigating risks associated with releases
Provide guidance on best practices for release management
About you
You pay significant attention to detail and triple-check your work, particularly when dealing with production systems
You have a strong track record as a reliable engineer that can be entrusted to manage production infrastructure without causing incidents
You make mistakes and learn fast in test/playground environments (avoiding mistakes in production environments)
You honor your word and own whatever you take on
You like small teams
You’re not afraid to ask questions
You want to make a difference in the real world
You’re self-driven
You follow your intuition and sync when needed
You strive for excellence in everything you do
Skills & Experience
5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, and/or SRE
Strong experience with PaaS-based cloud infrastructure in Azure: App Service, Storage, SQL Database, Front Door, Key Vault, Log Analytics Workspace
Strong understanding of cloud-security concepts
Strong scripting skills on the Azure platform (e.g. Azure CLI)
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Experience with Bicep for Azure
Experience with creating and maintaining Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines in YAML
Experience with production deployment changes and releases
Experience with Disaster Recovery
Experience with monitoring and logging tools
Benefits
Competitive salary
Flexible schedule in our fully-remote team
Creative and collaborative work environment
Work directly with our Chief Architect and Co-Founder based in Europe
A thorough, organized engineering onboarding process for quick learning
Hardware of your choice - PC or Mac
Develop with the latest platforms, frameworks, tooling and standards
Work in, and maintain, a zero technical debt environment
Very low production incident count (see status.skedda.com)
Be part of a small team
Be empowered to leave a significant mark on the product and the customers
About us
We’re an international team from 14+ countries with a growing presence in Boston. We place a lot of value on collaborating asynchronously across time zones but also understand the benefits of working together in person. Our team has doubled in size in the last year and continues to grow quickly.
At Skedda, our Mission is to empower organizations to bring workspaces to life. We take feedback from customers seriously and constantly iterate to improve our product. We’re a self-driven, curious, down-to-earth group of people who know how to balance moving quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality. Every team member at Skedda embodies our six core virtues:
We are a community
Quality is at our core
Take ownership
Create momentum every day
Tackle hard problems
Be curious
We are defining the future of the workplace experience, helping businesses to design meaningful, seamless, fully integrated employee experiences and interactions in the hybrid workplace. We’re growing fast with a lot of new opportunities ahead!To learn more about Skedda, please visit https://www.skedda.com/blog/skedda-mission-vision-virtues.
Apply Now