Senior Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Scale the Core Platform: evolve, scale and optimise the cloud-agnostic platform infrastructure powering Vault globally
• ▹Simplify orchestration: build intuitive control planes and automation to abstract away infrastructure complexity
• ▹Design for resiliency: engineer robust, fault-tolerant architectures and DR/BCP systems
• ▹Advance observability: enhance observability suites shared across the product ecosystem
• ▹Optimise data & streaming: scale core databases and event-streaming platforms for maximum performance at lowest cost

Requirements

• ▹Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a similar technical field
• ▹5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building and scaling infrastructure platforms
• ▹Strong proficiency building production-ready platform tooling in Python or Golang
• ▹Deep understanding of container and orchestration internals (Kubernetes, Docker)
• ▹Hands-on experience extending and integrating open-source tools (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana)
• ▹Proven ability to package and scale developer-facing infrastructure utilities, focused on reliability

Nice to have

• ▹Experience building cloud-agnostic solutions across AWS, Azure and GCP
• ▹Technical depth in databases or event-streaming platforms (Kafka, Postgres, DuckDB)
• ▹Deep interest in infrastructure tool internals, with troubleshooting/optimisation track record

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹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
• ▹25 days holiday and bank holidays
• ▹Flexible working hours
• ▹Cycle-to-work scheme
• ▹Electric car scheme
• ▹Season ticket loan
• ▹Access to learning materials and courses
• ▹Sports and hobby clubs, subsidised by the company
• ▹All the latest tech you need
• ▹Fresh fruit, cereals, snacks and smoothies
• ▹A talented and experienced team as colleagues
• ▹An environment that encourages learning and progress
• ▹Two charity days a year
• ▹Weekly food pop-up

About the company

Thought Machine's mission is to rid the world's banks of legacy technology, building a cloud-native core banking and payments platform (Vault). The company has grown to 550+ people across offices in London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and a new Engineering Hub in Lisbon, backed by more than £500m in funding.