Duties
Scale the Core Platform: Evolve, scale, and optimise the cloud-agnostic platform infrastructure powering Vault globally.
Simplify Orchestration: Build intuitive control planes and automation to further abstract away infrastructure complexity, significantly easing the cognitive load for Thought Machine engineers and bank SREs.
Design for Resiliency: Engineer robust, fault-tolerant architectures and Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Planning (DR/BCP) systems.
Advance Observability: Enhance our comprehensive observability suites that are shared across the entire Thought Machine product ecosystem, providing clients with deep, out-of-the-box monitoring and insights
Optimise Data & Streaming: Scale and optimise core databases and event-streaming platforms to achieve maximum performance and scalability at the lowest cost
Essential
Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar technical field.
5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building and scaling infrastructure platforms (not just maintaining them).
Strong proficiency in building production-ready platform tooling using Python or Golang.
Deep understanding of container and orchestration internals (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker).
Hands-on experience extending and integrating open-source tools like Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana.
Proven ability to package and scale developer-facing infrastructure utilities with a focus on improving system reliability.
Desirable
Experience building cloud-agnostic solutions running across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Technical depth in databases or event-streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka, Postgres, DuckDB).
A deep interest in the internals of infrastructure tools, with a track record of troubleshooting, extending, or optimizing them within a professional environment.
Benefits
Highly competitive salary and commission
Pension plan (match up to 5%)
Life insurance (3x annual salary)
Competitive maternity (six months fully paid) and paternity leave (four weeks fully paid)
Shared parental leave (matched to our maternity leave for the same point in time)
25 days holiday and bank holidays
Flexible working hours
Cycle-to-work scheme
Electric car scheme
Season ticket loan
Access to outstanding learning materials and courses
Sports and hobby clubs, subsidised by Thought Machine
All the latest tech you need
Start the day properly with fresh fruit and cereals
Huge range of healthy (and not-so-healthy) snacks, smoothies and drinks
A talented and experienced team as your colleagues
An environment where we encourage learning and progress
Two charity days a year
Weekly food pop-up
We actively hire candidates who demonstrate technical excellence in their field and welcome people of all ages and backgrounds, providing everyone with equal access to professional development. You are encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't accurately match the job description. We also encourage applications from those with different abilities, including candidates with ADHD, autism, dyslexia or dyspraxia.
