About the role
Spacelift is the infrastructure orchestration platform built for the modern software era, managing the full lifecycle for both traditional IaC and AI-accelerated infrastructure. It integrates with Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Pulumi, and Ansible in a single governed workflow so you deliver secure, compliant infrastructure at scale. Developer self-service, Golden Paths with guardrails, an OPA policy engine, and drift detection accelerate developer velocity while maintaining control. Spacelift Intelligence adds AI-powered provisioning and diagnostics across traditional and AI-driven workflows. Spacelift was founded in 2020 by long-time DevOps practitioner Marcin Wyszynski and successful entrepreneur Pawel Hytry and has raised $82.3M in funding over four rounds from top venture capital firms including Insight Partners, Blossom Capital, Hoxton Ventures, Inovo Venture partners and Five Elms Capital.
The role Build and own the platform that powers all of Spacelift - from CI/CD to observability to incident response Improve our code delivery pipeline: reduce friction, tighten feedback loops, eliminate flakiness Strengthen our SLOs and observability posture - give every team better signals Sharpen our on-call experience by improving alert quality, response speed, and postmortem hygiene Optimise platform cost and scaling behaviour across workloads and regions Own developer experience internally: from local dev to debugging production Keep learning about our problem space You build it, you run it - you will also be part of the on-call rotation About You Passion for building products, love for tech, and interest in the problem space (DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Developer Experience) 4+ years of experience in backend or platform engineering, with hands-on experience owning production systems Experience working with Go You have built or maintained CI/CD pipelines, observability stacks, or developer-facing tooling You have been on-call and improved it - not just responded to pages, but fixed root causes and leveled up the process Experience working with an IaC tool - OpenTofu/Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation You have excellent communication skills Eager to learn new tools and technologies Strong product mindset and big-picture thinking Focused on solving problems, not just completing tasks
