Senior Platform Engineer
At a glance
Senior Platform & Infrastructure role at Flutterbe. Porto.
Pay not stated Platform Engineer salary
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What you'll do
- Build platform capabilities that strengthen system scale, security and reliability
- Create reusable self-service tools that simplify infrastructure work and help developers move faster
- Write maintainable code and use infrastructure as code to make changes repeatable and auditable
- Help respond to incidents, review what happened and improve platform reliability afterward
- Promote automation, observability and secure infrastructure practices while mentoring junior engineers
What you bring
- Substantial hands-on work in platform engineering, SRE, infrastructure or DevOps
- Practical skill with Kubernetes, AWS, containers, infrastructure as code and configuration management
- Experience designing systems and distributed software, plus building platform tools such as deployment or monitoring systems
- A sound grasp of CI/CD pipelines and operational practices
Who this fits
This suits a senior individual contributor who wants to shape platform engineering and mentor junior colleagues. You'll work with engineers and product, security and operations teams. The role is based in Porto, Portugal.
From the employer
Blip is a leading tech company focused on software engineering solutions for sports entertainment.
We operate at scale. As part of Flutter Entertainment, we play an essential role in the Group's goal of becoming the global leader in online sports betting and iGaming, developing innovative products and platforms for over 14 million monthly customers worldwide.
We are serious about Tech. We are problem-solvers with big ambitions, keeping a people-first mindset at the core of our work. We prioritise flexibility as we strive to deliver the best technological products and tackle the greatest industry challenges.
Recognising that everyone brings their own strengths, backgrounds and new perspectives, we empower you to be yourself. That uniqueness shapes the culture of belonging we are so proud of.
The Role
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, building, and scaling the infrastructure and internal tooling that powers our engineering teams. You’ll focus on delivering secure, scalable, and developer-friendly platform capabilities that accelerate product delivery while improving operational efficiency and resilience.
In this hands-on role, you’ll work closely with engineers and cross-functional teams to evolve our core platform - contributing to areas such as deployment workflows, observability, data services, and networking. You will be a strong individual contributor who also mentors others and champions best practices across the team. Your work will enable autonomy, consistency, and security across the engineering organization.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Contribute on the design design and implementing platform features that improve scalability, security, and reliability across our systems.
- Building reusable, self-service components that abstract complexity and improve developer productivity.
- Writing high-quality, maintainable code and applying infrastructure-as-code principles for repeatable, auditable changes.
- Partnering with product, security, and operations teams to align on requirements and ensure solutions meet evolving business and technical needs.
- Supporting incident response and contributing to post-incident reviews and platform reliability improvements.
- Driving adoption of best practices in automation, observability, and secure-by-default infrastructure design.
- Mentoring junior engineers and contributing to a culture of learning, collaboration, and technical excellence.
What You’ll Bring
- Significant hands-on experience in platform engineering, SRE, infrastructure, or DevOps roles.
- Proficiency with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure (AWS), containerization, IaC (e.g. Terraform) and configuration management (e.g. Ansible).
- Background in system design, distributed systems, and software engineering principles.
- Experience building internal platform capabilities such as deployment systems, monitoring/observability tooling, or infrastructure automation.
- Solid understanding of CI/CD principles, pipeline design, and operational best practices.
- Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate complexity and make sound technical decisions.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work across teams and disciplines.
- A mindset of ownership and continuous improvement, with a passion for creating scalable and developer-friendly systems.
A Sneak Peek Into Our Tech Stack
- AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Vault, Datadog and PagerDuty
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So ... Are you in?
Equal opportunities
At Blip, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking, and working to apply.
We are committed to including everyone regardless of their race, disability, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, and religion.
Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you don’t have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role.
If you need any adjustments to apply for the position and to ensure this role aligns with your needs, please send an email to accommodations@blip.pt .
We will only respond to inquiries related to disabilities.
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