Backend Platform Engineer

About AMCS

AMCS is a sustainability software specialist headquartered in Ireland, with offices across Europe, the US, Canada, and Australasia. With over 1,300 highly skilled employees in 22 countries, we specialize in delivering technological solutions to enable a carbon-neutral future.

Our innovative SaaS solutions increase efficiency and drive sustainability in resource-intensive industries. Over 5,000 customers in 23 countries already benefit from our Performance Sustainability software, providing practical solutions for improved profitability and environmental resilience worldwide.

AMCS offers team members more than just a job, but also an opportunity to forge a career with a company that is growing, evolving, and introducing new ways of working that positively impact the world around us. Founded in Ireland, AMCS holds onto those local roots and 'start-up' mentality with a culture of connection. Connection to our work, Our customers, our colleagues, and our community creating a work environment that fosters openness, collaboration, and creativity.

What you'll do

In this role, you will play a key part in designing, building, and continuously improving the fundamental platforms, tools, and automation that enable our product engineering teams to deliver software efficiently, securely, and at scale. This is a hands-on engineering role where you will directly contribute to the systems and frameworks that underpin the organization's entire delivery lifecycle.

You will work across multiple domains including cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, developer experience, automation, container orchestration, event streaming, and observability. Your focus will be on creating robust, reusable, and scalable platform capabilities that remove friction, standardize best practices, and support a modern engineering ecosystem. By providing teams with well-designed tools and infrastructure, you will help accelerate delivery, reduce operational overhead, and increase reliability across the organization.

In addition to delivering high-quality platform solutions, you will collaborate closely with engineering teams to understand their needs, identify common patterns, and develop platform-as-a-product offerings that enhance productivity and improve engineering workflows. You will be expected to think strategically about the platform's evolution, contribute to architectural decisions, and help shape our future direction in areas such as cloud-native design, security by default, automation-centric delivery, and scalable operational practices.

This role also offers the opportunity to influence and improve technical excellence within the organization. You will contribute to establishing standards for cloud usage, implementation practices, infrastructure automation, and operational maturity. Through collaboration, advocacy, and mentorship, you will help foster a culture of continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and technical leadership.

Key Responsibilities:

Platform Architecture & Development

• Design, build, and maintain scalable platform services, tools, and automation to support product engineering teams.
• Develop high-quality, reusable frameworks and infrastructure components.
• Contribute to and influence platform architecture, technology selection, and long-term roadmap.

Cloud Infrastructure & Reliability

• Build and maintain cloud-native infrastructure using IaC (e.g., Terraform, Bicep).
• Implement highly reliable, resilient, and secure systems following SecOps and DevOps best practices.
• Drive improvements in observability (metrics, logging, tracing) and system reliability.

Developer Experience & Support

• Develop internal tools, automation, and workflows that enhance engineering productivity.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to understand friction points and remove barriers.
• Champion best practices in CI/CD, event streaming, test automation, and deployment strategies.

Security & Compliance

• Integrate security controls and guardrails into platform capabilities.
• Partner with security teams to ensure compliance and standard secure designs.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Mentor and guide product engineers in adopting platform systems and best practices.
• Contribute to technical discussions, design reviews, and cross-team initiatives.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, technical excellence, and ownership.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with expertise in building platforms, infrastructure, or foundational systems.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Go, Python, TypeScript, C#, Java).
• Deep experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Experience with event streaming.
• Solid background in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Expertise with CI/CD systems (Azure DevOps).
• Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, networking, and system design.
• Experience deploying and automating Confluent Kafka infrastructure (self-managed or cloud) using IaC and modern DevOps practices, with a strong understanding of partitioning, replication, and stream processing patterns.
• Experience with observability tools (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Datadog, etc.).
• Experience building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) or Platform-as-a-Product.
• Familiarity with security hardening, zero-trust architectures, or cloud governance.
• Experience working in large-scale, highly available environments.

Benefits

• Health insurance for you and up to three dependents from day 1
• Hybrid work setup
• Allowances
• 25 days of leave
• Access to a learning platform for skill training with progress tracking

Education Level

HBO

Career Level

Experienced

Hours

33 - 40 hours per week