Senior Platform Engineer

About Gigs

At Gigs, we're building the operating system for mobile services—a platform that lets tech companies embed global connectivity into their products effortlessly. Just as Stripe lets any business add a payment button in seconds, Gigs empowers platforms to weave in connectivity—bridging the traditional world of telecom with modern tech. From fintechs launching mobile services to HR platforms offering work phone plans, we automate provisioning and remove telecom complexity. Our team of around 100 people across the US and Europe, backed by nearly $100 million in funding from Ribbit Capital, Google, and Y Combinator. As one of the fastest-growing tech companies, bringing together early-stage engineers, product builders, and business athletes from companies like Stripe, Airbnb, and Shopify. We’re tackling deep technical and regulatory challenges to make connectivity truly seamless.

Things We Care About

• Speed. We move and we ship. We set bold deadlines and treat every week like it matters.
• Ownership. If you see something broken, fix it. We don't wait for permission.
• Customer Obsession. Our customers' product is our product.
• Ambiguity. We're building frontier technology in a complex domain. You'll need sound judgement and good instincts to make decisions without complete information.
• First principles. We don't ask how things have been done before. We ask why they were done that way at all.

The Role

As a Senior Platform Engineer at Gigs, you'll work at the foundation of everything we build. You'll design, build, and operate the infrastructure and developer tooling that powers our connectivity and payments platform — enabling product teams to ship faster, more reliably, and at scale. Our Foundation team owns the systems that every engineer at Gigs depends on: CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, observability, deployment tooling, and the shared platform services that keep our product running. You'll take ownership of complex infrastructure challenges end-to-end and drive them to production with a high bar for reliability and developer experience.

What You Will Do

• Own and improve Gigs' cloud infrastructure, ensuring our platform is reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient as we grow.
• Design and build internal developer tooling and platform services that accelerate how product teams ship — from CI/CD pipelines to deployment workflows to local development environments.
• Drive improvements to our observability stack, making it easy for every engineer to understand system behavior, debug issues, and respond to incidents with confidence.
• Take complex infrastructure problems end-to-end: scoping, designing, implementing, and operating solutions in production.
• Collaborate closely with product engineering teams to understand their pain points and build platform capabilities that unblock them.
• Contribute to our infrastructure-as-code practices, ensuring our cloud environments are reproducible, auditable, and version-controlled.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-mortems — and use what you learn to make our systems more resilient.
• Raise the bar for platform engineering quality through code reviews, documentation, and advocating for best practices across the team.

What We Are Looking For

• You have 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent on infrastructure, platform, or DevOps/SRE work in a production environment.
• You have experience designing and building a platform layers e.g. centralised authentication, observability, routing logic, or API versioning which other product teams integrate against or build on top of.
• You have hands-on experience with cloud platforms (GCP preferred) and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.
• You have experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment systems.
• You think in systems. You can reason about distributed architectures, understand failure modes, and design for reliability and observability from the start.
• You enjoy building products from the infrastructure up.
• You communicate clearly and collaborate well.
• You care about more than just engineering — you want to see the business impact of everything you do.
• You have a growth mindset when it comes to tooling and practices.

Bonus Points If

• You have experience with our stack: GCP (cloud run), Docker, Terraform, Ruby on Rails, Go, PostgreSQL, Kafka, PubSub.
• You have worked in fintech, payments, telecom, or other regulated industries.
• You have experience building developer-facing platforms at a high-growth startup.
• You have contributed to open-source infrastructure tooling.
• You use AI tooling as part of your engineering workflow.

Work At Gigs

At Gigs, we value in-person collaboration. We believe the best ideas, decisions, and relationships are built when teams spend meaningful time together, and our culture is designed around that belief. We support flexibility where it makes sense. Some focused work can be done remotely, and not every role or week looks the same. You should expect regular time in one of our hubs, as well as occasional travel for team workshops, customer meetings, and Gigs Republic, our bi-annual company off-site.

What We Offer

At Gigs, we believe in rewarding excellence. We offer competitive compensation and stock options because we see you as a true partner in our growth. We also provide stipends for your home office or work setup, a budget for learning and development to fuel your career, and of course, a free phone and international data plan. Want to learn more about our benefits, hubs, and what it’s like to work at Gigs? Check out our Careers page.