Senior Platform Engineer

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Build and maintain the internal developer platform — Create self-service tooling, workflows, and abstractions that let the engineering team ship confidently without filing tickets or waiting on anyone.
• - Design opinionated golden paths for common development tasks.
• - Own CI/CD as a platform service — Design and maintain build, test, and deployment pipelines that are fast, reliable, and standardised.
• - Own the developer experience — Maintain and improve the contributor tooling, local development setup, and extension development workflows.
• - Own the self-hosted experience — Maintain Docker images, installation tooling, configuration management, and upgrade paths.
• - Design for AI agent consumption — Build and maintain MCP / CLI implementations and protocol-level interfaces that allow AI agents to discover and interact with the platform.
• - Build internal tooling and automation — When an off-the-shelf tool doesn't solve the problem, build something better.
• - Embed security into platform workflows — Bake dependency scanning, access controls, secrets management, and policy enforcement directly into platform workflows.
• - Treat the platform as a product — Talk to your users. Understand pain points across all four constituencies.

Required Skills

• - Platform-as-product mindset — You think of internal tooling and developer experience as a product with users, not a set of chores.
• - AI-first software engineering skills — You actively use modern AI tools to deliver production-quality code, not just glue scripts.
• - Proficiency in Node.js/TypeScript is strongly preferred given our stack.
• - CI/CD expertise — Deep experience designing and operating build and deployment pipelines.
• - API design sensibility — You understand what makes an API good — for humans and agents.
• - Open source experience — You've contributed to, maintained, or built tooling for open source projects.
• - Containerisation and packaging — Solid experience with Docker and the practical concerns of distributing software.
• - Security awareness — You know how to embed secrets management, dependency scanning, access control, and vulnerability management into platform workflows as defaults.
• - Communication skills — You write good documentation because you understand that a tool nobody knows how to use ceases to exist.

Benefits

• - Competitive salary Based on role, skill, experience and location.
• - Work from anywhere From a home office, or be a nomad if that's your thing.
• - Hardware A brand new Macbook Pro + an office workspace setup budget.
• - Co-working If you prefer to work from a co-working space, we'll help pay for it.
• - Continue your personal development A budget for attending conferences, taking courses, and purchasing books.
• - Worldwide team trips The last few trips have taken us to the UK, Spain & Thailand.
• - 4-day work weeks We close the office on Fridays.
• - Generous paid vacation If you don't take a minimum of a 2 week break yourself, we'll kick you out of the office in December.
• - Paid parental leave When the time comes to welcome a new member of the family, we offer generous and fully paid parental leave.
• - Pay reviews Everyone at Ghost receives an annual pay review in line with market rates.