Remote Senior Software Engineer, Infra Engineering

Salary: £38,000 - 55,000 per year

Requirements

• We require 5+ years of software development experience with a track record of taking projects from concept to production.
• We require a strong software development background with expertise in at least one programming language such as Go, Python, or TypeScript.
• We require experience with Docker and running container orchestration systems, preferably Kubernetes.
• We require experience working with cloud service providers, preferably AWS or Azure.
• We require experience with Infrastructure as Code and other cloud automation tools, such as the HashiCorp suite.
• We require experience building observability tooling, dashboards, and alerting for monitoring distributed systems.
• We require experience designing globally distributed systems in a cloud-based, container-based environment.
• We require comfort writing clear design documentation and influencing architecture decisions.
• We require fluency with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot, and strong judgment on when and how to apply them.
• Bonus: open-source contributions or prior experience defining SLOs and SLIs for production services.

Responsibilities

• We architect and implement new cloud infrastructure to enable high-performance SaaS applications globally in the cloud.
• We drive infrastructure features end-to-end, from design documentation through implementation, rollout, and operational ownership.
• We build and deliver observability tools and analyze data, working with the application development team to ensure a consistently superb customer experience.
• We continue to grow automation for infrastructure provisioning, developer efficiency, and internal tooling efficiency.
• We apply AI-assisted development tools to accelerate IaC, automation, code review, and on-call workflows while maintaining a high bar for security, correctness, and review discipline.
• We mentor fellow engineers and contribute to team-wide architecture decisions.
• We assist our customer support and sales teams with technical issues regarding the Optro application.
• We maintain reliability for our production systems to exceed our SLA requirements, including participation in an on-call rotation for production issues.
• We help define internal Service Level Objectives and Service Level Indicators for the Infrastructure Engineering team to drive better reliability.
• We collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers, and give and receive feedback well in a dynamic environment.

Technologies

• AI
• AWS
• Architect
• Azure
• Claude Code
• Cloud
• Copilot
• Cursor
• Docker
• Support
• Kubernetes
• Python
• Security
• TypeScript
• DevOps
• HTTP

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We are Optro, the leading audit, risk, ESG, and InfoSec platform on the market, having surpassed $300M ARR and continuing to grow. More than 50% of the Fortune 500, including 7 of the Fortune 10, use our award-winning technology, and we are top-rated on G2.com and Gartner Peer Insights. We are proud to be one of the 500 fastest-growing tech companies in North America for the seventh year in a row, according to Deloitte. Our team works on a stateless containerized application architecture built on Kubernetes across multiple cloud platforms and regions, supported by custom automation infrastructure. This is a remote role (#LI-Remote). We value customer obsession, gritty resilience, innovation, teamwork, and a growth mindset. Background checks are required, and this role may involve access to highly sensitive data. We also cannot accept unsolicited agency resumes.

last updated 28 week of 2026