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DeepL

Staff Platform Engineer

DeepL

. Own reliability, capacity, and cost efficiency of DeepL’s CPU and GPU compute infrastructure across AWS and on-premises environments .

Posted 10/22/2026full-timeLondon • United KingdomLeadWebsite

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Demonstrates deep expertise in Kubernetes, AWS, and infrastructure as code, with a strong focus on building and operating resilient systems. Proven ability to mentor teams, manage hybrid infrastructure, and drive technical decisions across engineering disciplines.

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Kubernetes ExpertiseAWS ExperienceInfrastructure As CodeIncident ManagementSoftware Engineering Skills

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Hard Skills
KubernetesAWSTerraformGoPythonNetworkingLinuxGitOpsIncident ManagementReliability Engineering
Soft Skills
MentoringConsensus BuildingOwnership Mindset
Tools & Technologies
ArgoCDBare-Metal InfrastructureDistributed Storage SystemsBGP-Level Networking
Industry Keywords
Hybrid InfrastructureCloud-Native TechnologyObservabilitySecurityRoot-Cause Remediation

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSCloudKubernetesLinuxPythonTerraformGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own reliability, capacity, and cost efficiency of DeepL’s CPU and GPU compute infrastructure across AWS and on-premises environments
  • Manage the hybrid platform serving products and research, including hardware lifecycle
  • Shape platform architecture and make technical decisions with peers
  • Design, build, and operate production-grade Kubernetes clusters across cloud and on-premises infrastructure
  • Drive unification of workloads across on-premises hardware and AWS
  • Support research teams adopting cloud-native technology and ways of working
  • Define infrastructure-as-code and platform standards
  • Strengthen observability and security
  • Mentor infrastructure engineers through design reviews and architecture decisions
  • Build consensus across engineering teams and deliver platform changes
  • Lead hybrid infrastructure incident response through root-cause remediation
  • Help sustain a long-term on-call rotation

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Deep, hands-on Kubernetes expertise, including designing, building, and operating clusters at scale through their full lifecycle
  • Depth at scale in either public cloud or on-prem infrastructure, with credibility to work in the other
  • AWS experience preferred
  • Bare-metal or data centre experience strongly valued
  • Networking and Linux expertise, including debugging from container through host to network edge
  • Infrastructure as code experience with Terraform or equivalent
  • GitOps delivery experience with tooling such as ArgoCD in production environments
  • Software engineering skills in at least one major language; Go or Python preferred
  • Experience building tooling relied upon by other engineers
  • Track record of technical ownership spanning several teams
  • Strong incident-management and reliability-engineering discipline
  • Ownership mindset focused on building resilient systems
  • Bonus: GPU infrastructure for training or inference at scale
  • Bonus: Distributed storage systems such as Ceph
  • Bonus: Serving researchers or data scientists as platform customers
  • Bonus: BGP-level networking in hybrid or on-prem environments

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Hybrid work schedule with team members coming into the office twice a week
  • Flexible working hours
  • Virtual Shares for every employee
  • Regular in-person team events
  • Monthly full-day Hack Fridays
  • 30 days of annual leave excluding public holidays
  • Mental health resources
  • Competitive benefits tailored to location
  • Diverse and internationally distributed team
  • Open communication and regular feedback