Senior Platform Engineer - Developer Experience

The role

You will own and improve Motorway's AWS environments and shared platform infrastructure, so product teams can build, deploy and run services with confidence. You will build self-service tooling, automate manual work and set monitoring and alerting standards. You will also mentor other engineers.

What you will do

• Own and evolve AWS environments and shared platform infrastructure for reliability, scalability and ease of use.
• Design and build opinionated, self-service tooling so engineers can build, deploy and operate services correctly.
• Reduce manual work by automating common workflows and standardising infrastructure with infrastructure-as-code.
• Define and implement platform-level monitoring and alerting standards.
• Enable product teams to use shared metrics and signals to improve service reliability.
• Own and evolve continuous delivery and release capabilities, reducing time to production safely.
• Stay current with best practices in application hosting, continuous delivery and developer experience.
• Upskill and mentor other engineers in the team.

Required qualifications

• Proven track record of owning and operating web platforms in production at scale.
• Strong experience with AWS in a production environment.
• Experience defining meaningful metrics, monitoring and alerting for web platforms.
• Experience with platform-level security controls and observability.
• Experience designing and operating continuous delivery systems with safe, zero-downtime deployments.
• Experience responding to production incidents in an on-call environment.
• Comfortable with command-line tools and environments.
• Proficient with at least one programming language used for automation or tooling.
• Enjoy solving complex, cross-cutting problems with engineers across the organisation.
• Comfortable in a fast-moving environment with evolving requirements.
• Enjoy mentoring and sharing knowledge within the team and wider engineering organisation.

Benefits

• A competitive salary
• BUPA health insurance
• Discounted gym membership through BUPA
• OnHand volunteering membership and one paid volunteering day per year
• Hybrid working
• Pension scheme
• Motorway car leasing scheme, with discounted zero-emissions electric vehicles
• Enhanced parental leave: 26 weeks of full maternity pay and 4 weeks of full paternity pay for eligible employees
• Workplace nursery scheme
• Regular social events
• Cycle to work scheme

Before you apply

• The role includes a shared, out-of-hours on-call rotation after an initial onboarding period.

About the company

Motorway is the UK's largest online car-selling platform, connecting private sellers with over 8,000 dealers nationwide. It was founded in 2017 and has raised £143 million in Series C funding.