Senior Software Engineer – Platform Engineering
Posted Today by Brookwood Recruitment
Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
Amsterdam, Provincie Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Summary: The role of Senior Software Engineer in Platform Engineering is a contract position focused on enhancing mission-critical traffic management services within a global technology organization. The engineer will tackle complex infrastructure challenges while engaging in hands-on software development, working with large-scale systems that support global traffic distribution. This position requires expertise in scalable systems and cloud environments, particularly AWS, and offers a fully remote working arrangement.
Key Responsibilities:
- Building and improving scalable platform services and tooling
- Developing automation and self-service capabilities for internal engineering teams
- Working across hybrid cloud infrastructure (AWS + on-prem environments)
- Supporting distributed systems, traffic routing and edge compute capabilities
- Contributing to platform modernisation and cloud migration initiatives
- Troubleshooting production issues and improving system reliability
Key Skills:
- 4+ years’ experience in software engineering
- Experience working on platform, backend, infrastructure or SRE-focused environments
- Experience in AWS cloud environments
- Strong coding skills in Python, Go (Golang), or TypeScript
- Experience working with scalable systems in production
- Comfortable working across both software engineering and platform ownership
Salary (Rate): £105 per hour
City: Amsterdam
Country: Netherlands
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Senior Software Engineer – Platform Engineering (Contract) 12-Month Contract | Remote | 35 Hours Per Week
We are partnering with a global technology-led organisation looking to hire an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join a high-impact Platform Engineering team responsible for mission-critical traffic management services operating at scale.
This is an exciting opportunity for an engineer who enjoys solving complex infrastructure and scalability challenges while still remaining hands-on with software development.
You will work on large-scale systems that power global traffic distribution, including CDN, DNS, edge computing and distributed load balancing platforms, operating across both cloud and on-premise infrastructure.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Building and improving scalable platform services and tooling
- Developing automation and self-service capabilities for internal engineering teams
- Working across hybrid cloud infrastructure (AWS + on-prem environments)
- Supporting distributed systems, traffic routing and edge compute capabilities
- Contributing to platform modernisation and cloud migration initiatives
- Troubleshooting production issues and improving system reliability
What We’re Looking For
- 4+ years’ experience in software engineering
- Experience working on platform, backend, infrastructure or SRE-focused environments
- Experience in AWS cloud environments
- Strong coding skills in Python, Go (Golang), or TypeScript
- Experience working with scalable systems in production
- Comfortable working across both software engineering and platform ownership
Nice to Have
- Terraform or AWS CDK
- Kubernetes
- Puppet
- CloudFront, Route 53 or Lambda@Edge
- Experience supporting large-scale internal platforms
Working Arrangement
- Fully remote role
- Preference for candidates based near Amsterdam or willing to attend occasional quarterly planning sessions
- Flexible working arrangement averaging 35 hours per week
Interview Process
- Offline technical assessment
- 1–2 virtual technical interviews
- Final culture/team fit discussion