Senior Platform Engineer

The Senior Platform Engineer owns the ground our engineers stand on.

Reporting to the Head of Platform, you join as the second platform engineer: a hands-on individual contributor working across the full width of the platform. That means the Azure and Kubernetes foundation, the software factory that ships a dozen-plus services to production, the day-to-day developer experience of the engineering team, the security posture of all of it, and the observability that tells us what is actually happening. Increasingly, it also means the tooling that lets AI-assisted development happen inside our software lifecycle rather than around it.

Based in Doha, with the Head of Platform in France, you hold the keys to the whole platform from day one. We promote autonomy and responsibility: you act on the platform for the whole team, wherever they sit, and the role grows as fast as you grow it. This is a senior individual contributor role: you will not manage a team, but you will shape how the engineering team works through the primitives you build, the defaults you set, and the reviews you give.

Over the longer run, as the team grows, the same platform may also need to run as dedicated instances under sovereign hosting constraints. That capability is not on the near-term roadmap, but this role is where it would start.

Breadth is the point. In a given week you might be moving a legacy App Service onto AKS, extending a service template, moving a data store to private networking, shaving minutes off a CI run, wiring tracing through a multi-agent workflow, giving an owner to something that does not have one yet, and writing the runbook so nobody has to figure it out again. We are a small team with a large surface area; we try a lot of things, keep what works, and are honest about what does not.

This is an engineering role. We administer systems, but we are not system administrators: we write the code that runs the platform (tooling, automation, libraries, services) with tests and reviews, the same way any other engineering team ships software. The direction is set; we are hiring someone to own building it.

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