Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience (Platform Team)

The role

You will build and improve tools and workflows for engineers to build, test, deploy, and operate software. You will work on the internal platform, CI/CD, developer environments, and AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure.

What you will do

• Build and improve tools and workflows engineers use every day
• Identify friction in the development lifecycle and turn it into practical tooling, automation, and platform improvements
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, local development environments, and test environments
• Build reusable workflows, service templates, and platform capabilities
• Improve observability, incident response, SLIs/SLOs, and production debugging tooling
• Contribute to AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform foundations
• Improve scalability, security, cost efficiency, and multi-region readiness

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong background in developer tooling, internal platforms, infrastructure, or related platform engineering
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in a Developer Experience (DevEx) team, building internal tooling, platforms, and workflows for software engineers
• Strong software engineering skills and experience building tools, services, automation, or platforms used by other engineers
• Deep experience with CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and Infrastructure-as-Code such as Terraform
• A track record of identifying developer pain points and turning them into pragmatic tooling, automation, and self-service platform capabilities
• Good understanding of production reliability, observability, and incident response
• Excellent communication skills
• Pragmatic, hands-on mindset with a bias toward action

Nice to have

• Experience in a consumer facing industry
• Experience building or operating an Internal Developer Platform, developer portal, service catalog, or similar developer tooling
• Experience with security and compliance requirements such as SOC 2 or PCI-DSS

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Generous Time to Recharge policy - unlimited paid time off
• Work remotely for a maximum of 4 weeks per calendar year
• 2-week cross-functional onboarding program
• Cycle-to-work scheme (Swapfiets subscription) or commuting reimbursement
• Tuesday team lunches and after-work social events
• Beautiful office in central Amsterdam - rooftop garden and right by Rokin metro
• Extensive paid family leave
• Three paid volunteer days per year
• Cutting-edge equipment and tools
• Access to our Booking Marketplace: Book hotels and flights for personal travel at exclusive discounted rates

About the company

WeTravel builds tools that empower entrepreneurs to launch and grow their own travel business. The platform helps organizers create trip proposals, process payments, and manage customers.