IT & Software

Platform Software Engineer

G Research

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role you will shape the Storage Platform by building APIs, workflows and data models that turn infrastructure into self-service products. You’ll automate capacity, tenant, quota and data lifecycle processes to keep systems safe, auditable and scalable. You’ll work with cross-functional partners to turn operational problems into bounded engineering work and contribute to incident response. This is an opportunity to impact how research teams access and manage storage at scale, in a mission-driven, AI-enabled environment.

Pay / Benefits
  • Highly competitive compensation including annual discretionary bonus
  • Lunch provided via Just Eat for Business
  • 30 days' annual leave
  • 9% company pension contributions
  • Healthcare and life assurance
  • Cycle-to-work scheme
Responsibilities
  • Build and operate services and APIs in Python, Go and TypeScript
  • Automate capacity, tenant, quota, access and data lifecycle workflows
  • Create self-service requests with policy checks and clear exception paths
  • Model infrastructure state to enable idempotent, auditable changes
  • Define stable contracts between storage platform and developer platform services
  • Build tests, fixtures and observability to facilitate safe diagnosis of failures
  • Collaborate with users and partner teams to turn operational problems into bounded engineering work
  • Participate in incident response and the on-call rotation
Key requirements
  • Strong Python; practical Go and TypeScript software engineering skills
  • Experience designing, testing and operating APIs and backend services
  • Experience building infrastructure automation, workflows or reconciliation systems
  • Understanding of retries, partial failure, concurrency, idempotency and eventual consistency
  • Strong Linux and production troubleshooting skills
  • Experience with CI/CD, observability and safe deployment practices
  • Practical approach to security, permissions, audit and change control
  • Calm, methodical approach to incidents
  • calm, methodical approach to incidents
  • ability to work with users and partner teams
  • clear task boundaries and careful review
  • Python
  • Go
  • TypeScript

Reference: WJ-747_30992906

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