Senior Platform Engineer
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Senior Platform Engineer at definelycareers: London, Wielka Brytania; Na miejscu; IT; DevOps / SRE. JobGrid adds normalized role facts, source context, and a path to the employer application page so candidates can compare the listing before applying.
- Location and workplace: London, Wielka Brytania, Na miejscu
- Role classification: IT, DevOps / SRE
- Source freshness: checked by JobGrid on 2026-05-31.
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About the role
We’re looking for an exceptional Senior Platform Engineer to join Definely during a pivotal stage of growth. Senior Platform Engineers get involved with the whole product infrastructure and tooling, building out novel and scalable solutions for engineers and customers. We’re also responsible for reliability, security and automation.
What you’ll do:
The work we do in platform is broad and deep, but in a normal week you’ll be involved in:
Own the operational performance of our systems, analysing repetitive work and toil, and automating where most advantageous
Manage our CI/CD system and improve the developer experience whilst maintaining error budgets and deployment safety
Design and architect our platform to support product needs at a strategic level
Build a highly robust cloud environment (mostly AWS) through IaC,automation and best-fit architectures
Leading projects of improvement to our platform and ensuring delivery according to plan
Collaborating closely with product engineering, security and leadership teams across the business
What you’ll bring:
Strong experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure roles
Expertise in Cloud tools and services (AWS is our primary cloud)
Deep understanding of DevOps SRE practices
Directing and architecting robust and resilient cloud services through IaC (we use Terraform)
Knowledge of highly performant and strongly governed CI/CD practices and tooling
Ability to lead technical projects and make pragmatic architectural decisions
We’ll be lucky if you:
Have experience with security products and tooling, and DevSecOps experience in a highly dynamic environment
Have experience leading incident response and post incident reviews
Deep experience with data platforms (databases, queues, caches, storage etc.)
Have experience building AI/ML infrastructure or workloads
Have worked in high growth SaaS or startup environments
What we can offer you:
💰 Competitive salary & annual bonus
📈Share options
🎉 Quarterly team socials & annual company offsite
🏠 Hybrid working + 🌍 1 month “work from anywhere”
🏖️ 25 days holiday + bank holidays
🎂 Take your birthday off
📚 £750 annual learning & development budget
🩺 Private healthcare (incl. dental & optical)
👶 Enhanced parental leave
🚲 Additional perks: Cycle to Work, Workplace Nursery salary sacrifice scheme, and top-quality equipment
About Definely
Definely builds specialist review tools for lawyers working on complex contracts. As AI accelerates the volume and pace of legal decisions, Definely ensures lawyers can understand the full structure of a contract, see the implications of every change, and negotiate with confidence and control.
Launched in September 2020 by Nnamdi Emelifeonwu and Feargus MacDaeid, who worked together at Freshfields, Definely is trusted by over 150+ in-house legal teams and private practice firms, with thousands of users globally. Its customers span top Magic Circle and AMLaw 200 firms, including A&O Shearman, Slaughter and May, DLA Piper, KPMG, Samsung and IKEA.
Definely recently raised its Series B and is backed by Microsoft, Google, and Octopus Ventures. This is a rare opportunity to shape a new category at the moment it becomes essential.
Data Privacy Notice
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