Plain

B2B customer support

SeniorPlatformEngineer

£85–130k United Kingdom FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Senior Platform Engineer at Plain. Skills: Platform architecture, Infrastructure and tooling evolution, AWS, Infrastructure-as-code, Serverless systems. Define and execute the future of our platform architecture. Lead key infrastructure initiatives”

What You'll Achieve.

Make Plain scale with our customers; Dramatically accelerate product teams; Ensure Plain remains fast, reliable, and secure as we scale; Make the whole team faster; Enable faster iteration across the board; Deliver value to customers faster and more safely; Enable faster shipping; Keep Plain the most secure place for our customers' data; Enable the whole team to ship more quickly and with greater confidence

Industry & Context.

B2B customer support
Problems you'll solve

Tackle performance across the stack; Solve problems that matter; Iterate on our underlying architecture; Simplify our architecture; Migrate away from DynamoDB; Build our observability stack; Add multi-region support; Fundamentally rethink how engineers provision, build, debug, and monitor services

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Experience owning infrastructure in early-stage product companies, Helping teams go from scrappy early-stage infrastructure and practices to mature and resilient systems, Deeply familiar with AWS, including its sharp edges, Guiding architectural decisions in a way that’s practical and pragmatic, Pragmatic about cost versus value decisions

Nice to Have

Comfortable with ambiguity, Learning about new technologies, Solving hyperscale, distributed systems problems, Managing others, All the perks of a big company

What You'll Do.

Define and execute the future of our platform architecture

Lead key infrastructure initiatives

Build support for multi-region deployments

Overhaul pre-production and test environments

Tackle performance across the stack

Build infrastructure that empowers other engineers

Improve deployment speed

Reduce test flakiness

Enable faster iteration across the board

Shape our platform direction

Define how we evolve our use of AWS

Set patterns and practices for managing infrastructure-as-code

Balance technical ambition with pragmatic delivery

Solve problems that matter

business-impactful decisions

Deliver value to customers faster and more safely

Iterate on our underlying architecture to enable faster shipping

Simplify our architecture

Migrate away from DynamoDB

Build our observability stack

Add multi-region support

Fundamentally rethink how engineers provision

Keep Plain the most secure place for our customers' data

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Working closely with other engineers to ensure Plain remains fast, reliable, and secure; Make the whole team faster; Empower other engineers; Enable faster iteration across the board; Enable the whole team to ship more quickly and with greater confidence; Helping teams go from scrappy early-stage infrastructure and practices to mature and resilient systems; Make everyone around you better

Full Job Description

Plain is redefining customer support for the next generation of B2B companies. We’re building the fastest, most powerful platform to help companies move beyond reactive support and build true customer relationships. Some of the world’s most forward-thinking companies - like Cursor, Raycast, and Granola - trust Plain to unify all customer interactions, enable faster team collaboration, and supercharge their workflows with AI. B2B customer support is undergoing a seismic shift. AI is transforming the way companies engage with customers, shifting support from a siloed function to a company-wide effort across Slack, Discord, and any other channel you talk to customers in. The old way - slow, manual, and disconnected - no longer works. We’re looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our team and own the evolution of our infrastructure and tooling to make Plain scale with our customers and dramatically accelerate product teams. WHAT YOU’LL DO You’ll help define and execute the future of our platform architecture, working closely with other engineers to ensure Plain remains fast, reliable, and secure as we scale. You will: - Lead key infrastructure initiatives. This includes projects like building support for multi-region deployments, overhauling our pre-production and test environments, and tackling performance across the stack. - Make the whole team faster. Your job is to build infrastructure that empowers other engineers - not just maintain what’s there. You’ll be improving deployment speed, reducing test flakiness, and enabling faster iteration across the board. - Shape our platform direction. You’ll define how we evolve our use of AWS, set patterns and practices for managing infrastructure-as-code, and help us balance technical ambition with pragmatic delivery. - Solve problems that matter. You won’t be chasing theoretical scale. You’ll be making high-leverage, business-impactful decisions that help us deliver value to customers faster and more safely. OUR STACK

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