Platform Software Engineer

Voice AI Space; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading voice technology company in Greater London seeks a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to deliver production-ready and scalable cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years of experience in software engineering, strong skills in Python, and familiarity with cloud services like AWS and Azure. The role involves automating cloud operations and collaborating with diverse teams to ensure reliability and performance. Competitive benefits include flexible working and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Participation in employee share options plan

25 days holiday, plus bank holidays

Flexible working from home policy

Work from outside of the UK for up to 6 months each year

24/7 confidential support for work and life challenges

Enhanced parental leave

Bike2Work scheme

Annual learning and development allowance

One-off WFH allowance upon joining

Company-funded fertility and family-forming programmes

Private healthcare and dental cover

Qualifications

• 5 years of relevant professional experience, preferably in software engineering.
• Hands-on experience managing a cloud production environment.
• Experience with Agile methodologies like scrum and kanban.

Responsibilities

• Delivering reliable and scalable infrastructure on time.
• Designing and managing cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure.
• Automating cloud operations with infrastructure as code.

Skills

Strong Python programming

Kubernetes in production

CI/CD and release management

Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform

Education

Bachelor's degree or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant field

Tools

AWS

Azure

Terraform

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Job description

Overview

PolyAI automates customer service through lifelike voice assistants that let customers lead a conversation. Our voice assistants make it possible for businesses to deliver outstanding customer service that rivals their human agents. Our customers, which include the world’s leading logos, are expanding how they use our platform, driving automation of critical customer service operations and integrating PolyAI into their daily customer service workflows.

Responsibilities

• Delivering production-ready, reliable, and scalable infrastructure on time
• Improving developer experience and define technical standards for the entire company
• Designing, deploying, and managing scalable, secure, and resilient cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure.
• Collaborating with engineering and security teams to define cloud architecture and implement best practices.
• Automating cloud operations with infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform.
• Monitoring cloud infrastructure performance, identify issues, and implement solutions to ensure high availability and reliability.
• Optimising cloud resources for cost-efficiency while maintaining performance and security standards.
• Engaging in incident response and troubleshooting efforts for cloud-related issues.
• Staying up-to-date with the latest cloud technologies and trends, and providing recommendations for continuous improvement.

Minimum Requirements

• 5 years of relevant professional experience - preferably coming from a software engineering background.
• Strong Python programming.
• Experience with Kubernetes in production and containerisation.
• Proven experience with CI/CD and release management - Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions preferable.
• Hands-on experience managing a cloud production environment in AWS or Azure.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience using Terraform.
• Bachelor’s degree or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant technical field or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Requirements

• Proficiency in one of the following programming languages - Go, TypeScript/JavaScript.
• Familiarity with ArgoCD and GitOps practices for continuous deployment.
• Experience with Agile methodologies, such as scrum, kanban, and sprints.
• A love of learning and enjoyment in trying new things.
• Enjoys technical challenges and wants to contribute directly to solutions.

Benefits

• 💰 Participation in the company’s employee share options plan
• 🏝 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
• 🏡 Flexible working from home policy
• 🌎 Work from outside of the UK for up to 6 months each year
• 🫂TELUS Health EAP 24/7 - offers you and your chosen family confidential, judgment-free support for any work, health, or life challenge
• 🧡 Enhanced parental leave
• 🚲 Bike2Work scheme
• 📚 Annual learning and development allowance
• 🏡 We’re all about making WFH work for you - that’s why we offer a one-off WFH allowance when you join. Offering perks like noise-cancelling headphones or a comfortable desk chair to boost your comfort and focus!
• Company-funded fertility and family-forming programmes
• Menopause care programme with Maven
• Private healthcare and dental cover, discounts on gym members and relaxation apps, and access to a range of mental health programs

At PolyAI, we take great pride in our values - they guide everything we do. We believe that a strong culture leads to meaningful work and lasting impact.

Our core values are:

• Only the best — We expect the best from our people, we hire people that expect the best from themselves, and we nurture this drive for excellence.
• Ownership — We care deeply about what we do. We take ownership of our initiatives, decisions and outcomes.
• Relentlessly improve — We demand more from ourselves and are always evolving. Continuous, obsessive improvement is the only way we will transform the world of conversational AI.
• Bias for action — Our world moves quickly and so do we. We take calculated risks and we deliver impact fast.
• Disagree and commit — We are all working toward the same goal. If we don’t agree with something, we work hard to understand it and when a decision is made, we accept it and give it our all.
• Build for people — We want the world to enjoy the experiences they have with us. We are building for a future that prefers automation.

PolyAI is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment decisions at PolyAI will be based on the business needs without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, neurodiversity status or disability status.

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