About the Role
As a Platform Software Engineer at YLD, you’ll be part of a client team building innovative products. We’re looking for someone curious, passionate, driven, and enthusiastic. You should be skilled in problem-solving and experienced in designing scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures. You’re also an effective communicator and a strong team player. Together with your team, you’ll thrive in a fast-paced engineering environment, delivering outstanding results and exciting projects.
Your day-to-day responsibilities:
Cloud & Platform Infrastructure
Owning and evolving our AWS estate, which is the primary platform for our infrastructure
Managing and improving key platform services, including AWS infrastructure, GitHub estate, New Relic estate
Supporting applications primarily built with Node.js and TypeScript
Deploying and managing infrastructure using Terraform
Define and validate a clear observability strategy and technical direction
Improve metrics collection, analysis, and system visibility
Improve our ability to investigate and debug distributed system issues
Enhance monitoring using New Relic and AWS CloudWatch
You’ll have the following skills and experience:
Strong, hands-on AWS experience (essential)
Experience with infrastructure automation (Terraform strongly preferred)
Solid understanding of observability, monitoring, and distributed systems
Familiarity with New Relic, CloudWatch, or similar tooling
Azure experience is a plus
You should apply if you are:
Self-motivated, proactive, and continually looking for ways to improve and develop yourself;
A good communicator, both in writing and verbally. You’ll be able to explain technical ideas and concepts in business-friendly language;
Detail-oriented;
Ability to learn through observation in a low-documentation environment;
High resilience and adaptability are required skills
Used to working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment;
Analytical and problem-solving oriented;
A genuine believer in diversity and fairness.
Tech Stack
AWSTerraformNode.jsTypeScriptNew RelicCloudWatch