Software Engineer – remote Europe (Mid and Senior)

Spacelift is an infrastructure orchestrator and collaborative management platform for InfrastructureasCode – from OpenTofu, Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Kubernetes, to Ansible. It is the quickest way to implement GitOps best practices for your cloud resources. You can also use Spacelift as an APIdriven orchestrator to power your internal developer and selfservice platforms.

In the last 5 years, Spacelift is defining what means to work with InfrastructureasCode at scale and popularized many best practices, such as PolicyasCode for infrastructure, stack dependencies, and drift detection. From startups to large enterprises, we help teams around the world move faster with confidence. We have more to come in 2025, more areas to disrupt, and we need your help.

We are looking for software engineers who are passionate about building tools. Engineers who want to contribute to every aspect of building new functionality – from the discovery, delivery, to release – and drive key decisions. We build highly technical products that need both good understanding of problems our users face and excellent engineering to nail the solution.

The Team

We work in product teams (8) – a team lead, backend and frontend engineers, a UXUI designer, and a product manager. To move fast and make better decisions, we work closely and pair on problems and issues. We care about each other. We believe that having Engineers leading the projects and initiatives is the best solution as our platform is very technical.

The role

• Delivering new features and products in iterative and incremental manner.

• Owning the features end to end from the discovery process, through creating designs to implementation and maintenance

• Tackle sophisticated technical challenges involving multiple technologies;

• Implement solutions in Go that work at scale with a strong focus on readability and testability.

• Keep learning about our problem space;

• You build it, you run it – you will also be part of the oncall rotation.

• About You
  

  • Passion for building products, love for tech, and interest in the problem space (DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Developer Experience);

  • Proactive and owningyourinputs mindset;

  • • 3+ years handson experience with programming – more than 1 year with Golang is a plus;

    • 4+ years of experience in the tech industry (software engineering, platform, orand devops);

    • You worked previously in startups (early stage) or cofounded one is a plus;

    • Have experience or interest working on developer tooling;

    • Ideally, you have worked with an IaC tool — OpenTofuTerraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation — or have experience with Kubernetes and CloudNative ecosystem.

    • Excellent communication skills.
      
      

    • How we work

      • We move fast. Continuous deployments at least 2 times a day, we use heavily feature flags (LaunchDarkly);

      • Deliver features in iterations and tracerbullet development;

      • Ownership over our work and driving key product decisions;

      • Working closely as a team, transparent communication, caring about our system, ourselves, and customers;

      • Everything is an iteration and everything is an experiment;

      • Cultivate space for small and big innovation from allengineering hackathons to smaller, adhoc experiments;

      • We use the best dev tools that we can get our hands on.

      • Why Spacelift?

        • Innovative Culture: Join a team shaping cloud infrastructure management’s future.

        • Growth Opportunities: Be a key player in driving Spacelift’s business and AWS partnership to new heights.

        • WorkLife Balance: Flexible work environment, with remotefirst options and competitive compensation packages.

        • Collaborative Team: Work with passionate, talented people committed to driving success for our customers and partners.

        • What we offer

          • Competitive salary and equity package

          • B2B Contract

          • 26 days of paid time off annually + local bank holidays

          • Sick Leave

          • Flexible working hours and a healthy 40hour workweek

          • Equity

          • Company offsites

          • Work in an international, diverse, dynamic, and passionate team with a friendly and supportive company culture

          • Work from anywhere in Europe

          • Hiring Process

            • 30minute with our Talent Acquisition Manager;

            • 30minute introductory video call with one of our Team Leads;

            • Takehome exercise;

            • Live coding interview with two engineers;

            • 45 minutes behaviourtechnical interview with Marcin (Spacelift tech cofounder) and Wojciech (VP of Engineering);

            • Reference check.

            • Our values

              Ownership, Transparency, Humility. More here: https:spacelift.iocareers