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Senior Platform Engineer in UK

  • Anaplan
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Manchester

Responsibilities

  • Build the next generation of Anaplan’s platform using full-stack systems design and hands-on distributed systems programming.
  • Design platforms as products that are extensible, observable, maintainable, and usable by internal engineering teams.
  • Develop Kubernetes Operators using Kubebuilder or Operator SDK to manage complex, stateful application lifecycles.
  • Implement Kubernetes control-plane logic, reconciliation loops, and custom resource definitions.
  • Build high-concurrency, low-latency, eventually consistent microservices and distributed systems for high-scale SaaS products.
  • Manage data persistence across public cloud and private data center environments.
  • Design and scale telemetry, distributed tracing, and root-cause analysis infrastructure using OpenTelemetry.
  • Scale Prometheus and Grafana to support high-cardinality observability data.
  • Work with cloud storage and enterprise storage systems while accounting for performance, limitations, and cost drivers.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience as a professional Platform Engineer.
  • 10+ years of experience building and operating production-grade SaaS products at scale.
  • Substantial experience with Java and Rust, with advanced proficiency in Go, Rust, or JVM-based languages.
  • Experience building and operating workloads in Kubernetes and using cloud observability systems.
  • Experience with S3, NFS, NetApp ONTAP, and AWS FSx storage technologies.
  • Experience with distributed systems and systems programming, including memory-efficient and thread-safe code.
  • Experience with monitoring and metrics infrastructure, including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana.
  • Experience across AWS, GCP, Azure, or private data centers.
  • Bonus experience with AI/ML and natural language technologies.

Anaplan

Anaplan builds a cloud platform for enterprise planning, forecasting, and scenario modeling used by finance, supply chain, sales, and workforce teams. It sells subscription software and related services to large organizations that need connected, cross-functional planning. Founded in 2006 and hea...

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