Senior Platform Engineer

We're building the cloud Europe deserves - open, trustworthy, and competitive. The market for sovereign EU tech has never been better.

Why this role matters

This is not managed Kubernetes with a vendor control plane underneath. We run the platform ourselves. You can work fully remotely from anywhere in the EU, or from our Stockholm office. We’ll sort you out with the gear you need, plus the stability of a collective bargaining agreement (or equivalent outside Sweden).

You will work on:

Production Kubernetes operations: upgrades, lifecycle, reliability, disaster recovery, and incident response.
Platform automation: GitOps, CI/CD, observability, cluster add-ons, and operational tooling.
Ferga: our self-service portal for Kubernetes provisioning and platform workflows.
Service exposure: ingress, DNS, certificates, NetworkPolicies, and related integrations.
Multi-tenant cluster operations and developer-facing platform services.

Useful experience:

You have operated Kubernetes in production, including upgrades and incidents.
You understand enough Kubernetes internals to debug networking, storage, scheduling, and node failure scenarios.
You can build production software in Go.
You are familiar with Helm, GitOps, OpenTofu/Terraform, CI/CD, and observability tools.
You are comfortable running infrastructure without relying on managed-cloud safety nets.

Nice to have

Kubernetes operators/controllers, Kubebuilder, Operator SDK, and CRDs.
Talos Linux on OpenStack.
BGP, ingress, DNS, certificates, NetworkPolicies, and service exposure.
Security, incident response, and platform reliability work

Your Team

You’ll join our dev team lead by Yuna. The team owns both the platform which customers consume and the developer experience layered on top.

Two-week sprints with demos and retros that actually change how we work. We’re remote-friendly, but we value time together. Company offsite in May, and team travel to conferences (KubeCon, OpenInfra, that kind of thing).

Reality check

We are a small team running real infrastructure. There is no external managed Kubernetes team to escalate to. Priorities shift, context is sometimes incomplete, and the on-call rotation belongs to us. This role fits someone who wants to own a platform end-to-end, automate recurring pain, and make practical engineering trade-offs.

Interested?

We care more about how you think than how polished your CV looks. Click Apply, send us what you have, and we’ll take it from there.

Questions about this role? Message Marietta, our people lead, at marietta@safespring.com.

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About Safespring

At Safespring, we’re giving European organizations an alternative to the hyperscalers. Powered by open source, our sustainable and European-based cloud infrastructure puts security, transparency, and digital sovereignty first.

Our recruitment process

At Safespring we’re not just building systems; we’re building relationships. We understand that applying for a new role is a big step, and we aim to make it a smooth, transparent, and engaging experience for you.

Intro chat - this is a great opportunity for both of us to get to know each other and decide if we have a match.
Meet your future manager - deep dive into your engineering experiences.
Tech interviews focused on system design and programming skills with your future team.
Sync with your recruiter - all your interviewers will make a collaborative decision and will either present you with an employment offer and celebrate, or provide you with constructive feedback and encourage to stay connected!
Candidates who get offer of employment with us will need to go through reference and background check

Flexibility in Every Step

We recognize that talent comes in many forms and that the standard interview process isn’t one-size-fits-all. If you have ideas on how you would prefer to showcase your skills, we’re all ears! Our goal is to give you an opportunity to show us how you work best.

How to apply

If this sounds interesting, you can send in your application by clicking the apply button.

You don’t have to tick every box. If the problems described here sound like the ones you want to work on, it’s worth a conversation.

Questions about this role? Send a message to Marietta, our friendly people lead at marietta@safespring.com.

Location and timeline

Please, notice that for this role you will need to be based in European Union.

As we provide services to some of the public research institutions we will conduct background and reference checks as part of the recruitment process for candidates who get offer of employment with us.

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Starting date: As soon as possible

Salary range: 65,000 - 85,000 EUR / Yearly