Senior Platform Engineer (SRE)

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer (SRE) based in Ireland.

This is a senior infrastructure role at the heart of a high-scale, AI-powered sports media platform. You will help design and operate distributed systems handling petabyte-scale media storage and millions of minutes of video every month. The role combines deep AWS expertise, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, distributed systems, developer experience, and platform reliability. You will work as one of the core members of a lean Platform team, with significant autonomy over architecture, technical decisions, and delivery. A major focus will be building highly available infrastructure capable of supporting critical live sports workflows across multiple regions. You will also shape internal developer platforms, cost-efficient storage strategies, security practices, and multi-cloud capabilities. It is an opportunity to solve complex infrastructure challenges at meaningful scale while working in a fast-moving, international, engineering-led environment.

Accountabilities:: Design, build, operate, and continuously improve AWS infrastructure across multiple regions.

Develop and maintain Kubernetes-based infrastructure managed through Terraform, Terragrunt, and Helm , with infrastructure defined and reviewed entirely as code.

Design and operate highly available, distributed architectures capable of supporting critical live-event workloads without conventional maintenance windows.

Own large-scale object storage environments exceeding 15 petabytes , optimizing reliability, performance, scalability, and cost.

Build and operate event-driven infrastructure using technologies such as Kafka , supporting high-volume media ingestion, processing, and distribution.

Drive infrastructure cost optimization, particularly around storage and data egress, treating cloud economics as an architectural consideration.

Contribute to multi-cloud and Bring Your Own Storage architectures that enable customers and partners to retain media in their own cloud environments while maintaining efficient platform access.

Build and evolve an internal developer platform that enables engineers to develop locally, deploy through reliable pipelines, and provision infrastructure through self-service workflows.

Establish clear engineering standards and processes for infrastructure definition, modification, review, deployment, and operational ownership.

Partner with product engineers to reduce platform friction, respond effectively to infrastructure needs, and prevent the Platform function from becoming a delivery bottleneck.

Strengthen infrastructure security through vulnerability analysis, patching, hardening, and continuous security improvements in support of SOC 2 and broader compliance requirements.

Participate in on-call responsibilities for critical infrastructure, sharing operational coverage across the Platform team.

Own incidents through resolution and contribute to detailed postmortems that document technical causes, business impact, costs, and preventative actions.

Reduce alert noise, operational toil, and recurring incidents through proactive reliability engineering and platform improvements.

Lead projects autonomously from discovery and scoping through architectural decisions, implementation, production deployment, and ongoing operation.

Create and defend technical proposals and RFCs, contributing to engineering-wide technical discussions and architectural decisions.

Collaborate closely with engineering leadership and cross-functional teams while communicating complex technical concepts clearly to stakeholders with different levels of technical expertise.

Requirements:

Approximately 6+ years of experience in SRE, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or a closely related discipline , with greater emphasis placed on demonstrated impact and technical depth than on a specific number of years.

Deep, hands-on AWS expertise and strong production experience with Terraform .

Solid experience designing, deploying, and operating Kubernetes in production environments.

Proven experience designing distributed systems rather than simply operating existing infrastructure.

Strong understanding of high availability, multi-region architectures, event-driven systems, and reliability engineering , with the ability to explain and defend architectural trade-offs.

Experience with infrastructure-as-code and tools such as Terraform, Terragrunt, and Helm.

Strong understanding of cloud storage, ideally including large-scale object storage and the economics of storage and data egress.

Experience with event-streaming technologies such as Kafka is highly valuable.

Strong builder mentality, with the ability to take ambiguous technical problems from discovery and scoping through solution design, implementation, production deployment, and ongoing improvement.

Ability to work autonomously and take ownership of infrastructure projects from end to end.

Strong communication skills, including the ability to adapt technical explanations to engineers, product stakeholders, and other audiences.

A strong security mindset, with practical awareness of infrastructure hardening, vulnerability management, patching, and secure operational practices.

Comfortable participating in an on-call rotation and taking ownership of production incidents.

Experience establishing platform foundations, engineering processes, or internal infrastructure practices in an early-stage or rapidly scaling environment is a strong advantage.

Experience with media, video, storage infrastructure, ingestion pipelines, transcoding, live streaming, or high-volume egress is a plus.

Familiarity with technologies such as PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Temporal, or Go is beneficial.

Comfortable working in a remote-first, international environment and collaborating across distributed teams.

Benefits:

€90,000–€110,000 annual compensation .

€150,000 in equity , providing an opportunity to participate in the long-term value created by the business.

Fully remote position within Europe.

Remote-first international working environment with regular opportunities for team gatherings.

Significant autonomy and ownership over technical architecture, infrastructure strategy, and project delivery.

Opportunity to work on infrastructure operating at substantial scale, including 15+ petabytes of media storage and 145M+ minutes of video ingested monthly .

Direct influence over platform architecture and infrastructure decisions that have both technical and commercial impact.

Opportunity to solve challenging problems across AWS, Kubernetes, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, cloud economics, and developer platforms.

Shared on-call model designed to distribute operational responsibility across the Platform team.

Strong focus on learning from incidents through structured postmortems and continuous reliability improvements.

Opportunity to work alongside experienced engineers in an international team spanning Europe and the US.

Exposure to high-profile sports organizations and mission-critical workloads where infrastructure reliability directly affects live-event operations.

Engineering culture centered on autonomy, technical ownership, RFC-driven decisions, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

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