Senior Staff Platform Engineer

📍 Warsaw onsite | Full-Time

We are seeking a Senior Staff Platform Engineer to help shape and evolve our cloud platform strategy across enterprise-scale systems. This is a high-impact, senior technical leadership role focused on designing secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure and enabling engineering teams to deliver at scale.

This is not just an implementation role — we are looking for someone who can operate at Staff / Principal level, influencing architecture direction, platform standards, and engineering best practices across the organisation.

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What You’ll Do

• Design and evolve our cloud platform architecture across Azure-based environments (hybrid and public cloud)

• Define and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards and automation practices

• Architect highly available, resilient systems, including disaster recovery and business continuity strategies (RTO/RPO ownership)

• Lead initiatives around cloud governance, networking, security, and identity

• Drive adoption of DevOps, CI/CD, and GitOps practices across engineering teams

• Partner with product and engineering leaders to ensure platform scalability and reliability

• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across multiple teams

• Contribute hands-on where needed in complex infrastructure or architectural challenges

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What We’re Looking For

Cloud & Platform Expertise

• Deep experience with Microsoft Azure services such as:

• App Services, Azure Functions (serverless), Logic Apps

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

• Azure Service Bus, Event Hub

• Cosmos DB, Azure SQL

• Storage (Blobs, Queues)

• Virtual Networks, Private Endpoints

• API Management

• Monitoring & observability (e.g., Application Insights)

• Strong understanding of enterprise networking and secure cloud design

• Experience implementing disaster recovery and high-availability architectures

DevOps & Infrastructure as Code

• Proven experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation

• Infrastructure as Code using ARM, Bicep, Terraform, or similar tools

• Azure DevOps (repos, branching strategies, build & release pipelines)

• Experience driving DevOps culture and platform standardisation

Architecture & Engineering

• Strong background in microservices, event-driven systems, and serverless architectures

• Experience building scalable APIs (REST, OpenAPI/Swagger)

• Solid understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native design principles

• Experience with containerisation and orchestration (AKS/Kubernetes)

Development Background

• Strong experience in C# / .NET (ASP.NET MVC, Web API)

• Frontend experience (React or similar modern frameworks)

• Strong SQL knowledge (database design, ORM/Entity Framework)

• Experience with messaging and integration patterns