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Working at the intersection of Platform Engineering and SRE, your focus will be on platform reliability, automation, GitOps practices, and supporting high-performance data engineering and analytics teams.\nThis is a hands-on role at the intersection of Platform Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering. You will work closely with architects and technical leaders, contribute to architectural decisions, and act as a key point of contact for the platform’s reliability and evolution. This is not a traditional data engineering, analytics, or ticket-based operations role.\nKey takeaways:\nStack:\nOrchestration & Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux), Private Cloud (OpenStack / AWS).\nData Systems: Event Streaming (Kafka/Redpanda), Analytical Storage (Apache Druid/Elasticsearch), Data Processing (Spark, Airflow), PostgreSQL.\nSalary: 23 000 -26 600 PLN gross monthly on an employment contract (open to negotiations)\nWorking model: 2 days per week in the Krakow office; remote work within Poland may be considered for an excellent match\nLocation: Krakow, Podgórze,\nRecruitment process:\nA call with Motife recruiter\nShort online coding assessment followed by two technical and system-design interviews\nFinal meeting with the CTO\nResponsibilities:\nPlatform Ownership\nOwn the operational health and ongoing development of a self-hosted data platform running on Kubernetes and OpenStack.\nOperate production systems including Apache Druid, Redpanda, Spark, Airflow, PostgreSQL, and Elasticsearch.\nParticipate in platform stabilisation, upgrades, capacity planning, and ongoing performance improvements as the platform scales.\nBuild reliable operating patterns for stateful Kubernetes workloads, including storage, replication, disruption management, and rolling upgrades.\nReliability and Incident Management\nDefine and monitor the KPIs, alerts, dashboards, SLOs, and error budgets required to maintain platform reliability.\nBuild observability coverage using Prometheus, Grafana, logging, and distributed tracing.\nParticipate in the on-call rotation, respond to production incidents, and coordinate the resolution of major platform issues.\nDrive root-cause analysis, post-incident reviews, runbooks, and preventive improvements.\nInfrastructure and Automation\nCodify infrastructure and platform configuration using Terraform, Helm or Kustomize, and GitOps practices.\nImprove CI/CD processes to make platform changes safe, repeatable, and easy for the wider team to support.\nAutomate recurring operational work and reduce manual intervention across the platform.\nApply appropriate security, secrets management, backup, and disaster-recovery practices.\nArchitecture and Collaboration\nContribute to architectural discussions and help shape the future technology stack rather than simply maintaining the existing design.\nPartner with globally distributed architects, SREs, data engineers, analysts, and data scientists.\nTranslate platform requirements into scalable and supportable technical solutions.\nUse AI-assisted engineering tools pragmatically while maintaining strong quality controls for production infrastructure.\nRequirements:\nPlatform and SRE Expertise\nStrong hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering.\nAdvanced knowledge of Kubernetes in production, particularly stateful workloads, persistent storage, disruption management, and safe upgrades.\nProduction experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management using tools such as Terraform, Helm, or Kustomize.\nPractical experience with GitOps and automated delivery, ideally using ArgoCD, Flux, or comparable tooling.\nExperience owning production systems, participating in on-call rotations, and resolving complex incidents.\nData Platform Experience\nHands-on experience operating Kafka, Redpanda, or another production event-streaming platform.\nExperience administering or supporting at least one additional data technology such as Spark, Airflow, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Hadoop, or Apache Druid.\nGood understanding of data ingestion, streaming, partitioning, replication, consumer lag, capacity, and performance.\nExperience implementing monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and structured root-cause analysis.\nYou do not need experience with every technology in the stack. Apache Druid, Spark, Redpanda, and OpenStack can be learned if you bring strong Kubernetes, platform reliability, and data infrastructure fundamentals.\nCollaboration and Mindset\nStrong ownership mindset and the ability to operate independently in a small, high-impact team.\nConfidence contributing to architectural discussions and challenging existing solutions when improvements are possible.\nOpenness to learning unfamiliar technologies and using modern AI-assisted development tools.\nClear written and spoken English\nApply now\nJoin a high-impact engineering team and take ownership of the reliability and future direction of a large-scale, self-hosted data platform. 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