Platform Engineer

Ironwood Digital is the infrastructure orchestration platform built for the modern software era, managing the full lifecycle for both traditional IaC and AI-accelerated infrastructure. It integrates with Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Pulumi, and Ansible in a single governed workflow so you deliver secure, compliant infrastructure at scale. Developer self-service, Golden Paths with guardrails, an OPA policy engine, and drift detection accelerate developer velocity while maintaining control. Ironwood Digital Intelligence adds AI-powered provisioning and diagnostics across traditional and AI-driven workflows. Ironwood Digital was founded in 2020 by long-time DevOps practitioner Marcin Wyszynski and successful entrepreneur Pawel Hytry and has raised $82.3M in funding over four rounds from top venture capital firms including Insight Partners, Blossom Capital, Hoxton Ventures, Inovo Venture partners and Five Elms Capital. The role Build and own the platform that powers all of Ironwood Digital - from CI/CD to observability to incident response Improve our code delivery pipeline: reduce friction, tighten feedback loops, eliminate flakiness Strengthen our SLOs and observability posture - give every team better signals Sharpen our on-call experience by improving alert quality, response speed, and postmortem hygiene Optimise platform cost and scaling behaviour across workloads and regions Own developer experience internally: from local dev to debugging production Keep learning about our problem space You build it, you run it - you will also be part of the on-call rotation About You Passion for building products, love for tech, and interest in the problem space (DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Developer Experience) 4+ years of experience in backend or platform engineering, with hands-on experience owning production systems Experience working with Go You have built or maintained CI/CD pipelines, observability stacks, or developer-facing tooling You have been on-call and improved it - not just responded to pages, but fixed root causes and leveled up the process Experience working with an IaC tool - OpenTofu/Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation You have excellent communication skills Eager to learn new tools and technologies Strong product mindset and big-picture thinking Focused on solving problems, not just completing tasks Nice to have: Experience with Claude Code, Datadog PostgreSQL/Aurora optimization experience How we work We move fast. Continuous deployments at least 2 times a day, we make heavy use of feature flags (LaunchDarkly) Ownership over our work and driving key product decisions Working closely as a team, transparent communication, caring about our system, ourselves, and customers Everything is an iteration and everything is an experiment Cultivate space for small and big innovation from all-engineering hackathons to smaller, ad-hoc experiments We use the best dev tools that we can get our hands on Why Ironwood Digital ? Innovative Culture : Join a team shaping cloud infrastructure management’s future Growth Opportunities : Be a key player in driving Ironwood Digital ’s business and AWS partnership to new heights Work-Life Balance : Flexible work environment, with remote-first options and competitive compensation packages Collaborative Team : Work with passionate, talented people committed to driving success for our customers and partners Competitive salary and equity package : B2B contract Hiring Process 30' HR intro call 30' Team Leader Interview Take-home exercise 90' Technical interview with live coding 45' Final Leadership call with our Director of Engineering Our values We build for CUSTOMERS We RESPECT each other We take OWNERSHIP seriously We succeed through COLLABORATION We embrace SPARK & WONDER More here: https://spacelift.io/careers Join Us! At Ironwood Digital , you won’t just be working on a technical product - you’ll be part of a team shaping the future of DevOps. Apply to contribute to a platform loved by its users and take your career to the next level! Originally posted on Himalayas