Senior Platform Engineer (AWS) (all genders)

About the role

At GotPhoto, we are freeing photographers to be more successful. Through our platforms GotPhoto.com and fotograf.de , we help professional photographers simplify and transform the way they work - from photo management and client communication to ordering and payment processing. Our end-to-end workflow and e-commerce solution gives photographers more time to focus on what matters most: being behind the lens. Since 2012, we've built a sustainable and profitable business driven by entrepreneurial spirit, innovation, and a deep understanding of photographers' everyday challenges. Today, thousands of photographers trust our software , creating their own success stories along the way. As the leading e-commerce engine for professional volume photographers and a business backed by EQT, one of the world's leading private equity firms, we're powered by a team of 150+ talented and international people building technology that simplifies photographers' everyday work and helps them focus on capturing meaningful moments. Join us on our journey to empower photographers like never before. Your role Do you want to build the platform that helps engineering teams move faster, ship safer, and scale smarter? You'll work at the intersection of Platform Engineering, SRE, Developer Experience, and AI Enablement-building the infrastructure, tooling, and guardrails that power a global SaaS platform.

Responsibilities

• Build and Evolve Our Platform
• Design, build, and operate the cloud-native platform that supports our engineering organization.
• Create reusable platform services, self-service capabilities, and infrastructure standards that help product teams deliver software faster and more reliably.
• Elevate Developer Experience
• Reduce friction across the software development lifecycle.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, internal tooling, automation, and developer workflows that increase productivity and accelerate delivery.
• Partner with engineering teams to continuously improve the developer experience.
• Drive Reliability & Observability
• Improve the reliability and performance of our systems.
• Define and maintain SLAs, SLOs, and observability standards using metrics, logs, tracing, and monitoring.
• Support incident response, root-cause analysis, and continuous platform improvements.
• Enable AI-Native Engineering
• Help shape the next generation of developer platforms.
• Build infrastructure and workflows that support:
• AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and future AI development tools
• Agentic AI infrastructure including MCP servers, tool-calling backends, and secure execution environments
• AI workload observability including LLM tracing, latency, usage, and cost monitoring
• Safe AI deployment workflows with model versioning, experimentation, rollbacks, and policy-driven guardrails
• Champion Security & Platform Excellence
• Embed security, compliance, and Infrastructure-as-Code best practices into engineering workflows.
• Design scalable AWS architectures and automation that keep our platform secure, reliable, and ready for growth.
• Lead Through Influence
• Share knowledge, mentor engineers, and drive cross-functional platform initiatives.
• Help establish engineering best practices and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
• What You Bring

Requirements

• 5+ years in Platform Engineering, SRE, Developer Experience, or a similar field
• Experience building and operating production systems in AWS
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code and automation background
• Technical Skills
• Cloud & Platform Technologies: You are experienced with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, and modern cloud-native infrastructure patterns.
• Observability & Reliability: You know how to design systems that are observable, measurable, and resilient using tools such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Architecture & Systems Thinking: You understand distributed systems, event-driven architectures, authentication and authorization models, infrastructure automation, and modern deployment strategies.
• Developer Enablement: You enjoy building tools and platforms that help other engineers be more productive.
• What Makes You Successful
• Platform-as-a-Product Mindset: You think of internal platforms as products and care deeply about the developer experience.
• Incremental Builder: You prefer iterative improvements, automation, and sustainable scaling over big-bang solutions.
• Collaborative Partner: You enjoy working across teams, building alignment, and enabling others to succeed.
• Humble Expert: You bring expertise, curiosity, and a willingness to learn from others.
• Bonus Points
• Experience building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs)
• Experience with AI-assisted software development
• Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol)
• Experience supporting AI/ML workloads in production
• Experience in high-growth SaaS environments
• Why You'll Love Life at GotPhoto
• Best of Both Worlds: We live and breathe a flexible hybrid model. Our beautiful office at Hausvog

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