Duties
Support the engineering team in building reliable, scalable applications
Help design and build tools to make our services scalable and highly available, automating wherever possible
Develop observability and orchestration tooling to allow our customers to monitor and manage their deployments
Contribute to disaster recovery, backup and redundancy tooling and strategy
Assist in improving the quality of our codebase by building new tools and processes
Essential
A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a similar technical field
3-5 years of hands-on experience
Experience developing production-ready infrastructure management tooling with either Python or Golang
Familiarity with at least one of the following
Observability Tools (e.g. Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana)
Databases (e.g. Postgres, DuckDB)
Event Streaming platforms (e.g. Kafka)
Container Orchestration (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP
Experience with CI/CD systems (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab, GitHub Actions)
Desirable
Experience supporting production systems in high-consistency transactional environments
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.
