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Senior Platform Engineer (EdTech)

  • Hybrid
    • Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
  • Tech

Job description

As a Senior Platform Engineer in our Build & Deploy team at StuDocu, you’ll be the driving force behind a seamless developer experience, empowering our team to deploy code to production 10+ times daily, reaching millions of students worldwide. Your mission is to build a platform that’s intuitive, robust, and blazingly fast, freeing developers to focus on creating impactful features without getting bogged down by infrastructure complexities.

Your typical day might kick off with fine-tuning a GitHub Actions pipeline based on direct developer feedback, then pivot to debugging a staging environment issue while keeping an eye on cost efficiency. You’ll thrive on constant collaboration, maintaining tight feedback loops with developers to ensure the platform evolves with their needs. By streamlining workflows and keeping releases smooth, you’ll help us scale smarter and faster!

What you’ll be doing here

  • Collaborate closely with developers by listening to their input to build a platform that makes their jobs easier and helps them shine, keeping feedback loops tight to stay on the right track

  • Team up with DevOps, product, and security teams to make sure our platform fits perfectly with goals to improve the development experience 10x and building bridges across teams

  • Create and maintain a developer platform that lets devs push out features smoothly, powering 10+ daily deploys to millions of students worldwide

  • Automate infrastructure and workflows with reliable, reproducible solutions to keep things running smoothly and save everyone time.

  • Keep local and staging environments fast and dependable, making sure developers have a smooth experience from coding to testing

  • Watch costs and keep things lean, ensuring our platform stays efficient without sacrificing speed or reliability.

Job requirements

  • At least 4 years of hands-on experience building automations for testing, deployments, and infrastructure, making life easier for developers with streamlined, reproducible workflows

  • Experience with running deployments and workflows in GitHub Actions is a must

  • Solid Python skills and hacking/scripting mentality

  • Collaborating with other teams and mentoring other colleagues is essential for this role

  • (Bonus) Familiarity with Terraform, Kubernetes and Jenkins is a huge plus

Why you’ll love it here

  • Freedom to shape how you tackle challenges and leave your mark on our platform

  • You’ll be pushing features live for millions of students, 10+ times a day—real impact, fast; No two days are the same—pipelines, deploys, environments, you name it;

  • A role packed with variety, spanning cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and everything in between, keeping your work fresh and exciting

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Perks

Financial

- Equity scheme in the form of SAR - Gifts - Pension scheme - Referral rewards

Leave-related

- 24 days of paid leave per year - Option to buy unpaid leave - Special occasions paid leave (e.g. moving day)

Learning & development

- Annual hackathons - In-house dutch lessons - In-house L&D workshops - Personal L&D budget of €2,500.- per year

Well-being & mobility

- Annual company trip - Sports subscription with OneFit - Travel card (NS business) if you live outside of A10 ring road

Office, working remotely & flexibility

- Hybrid work set up between home and office - Lots of company events and team building activities - Lunch in our office prepared by our Chef Valentijn - One floor with a garden and the other with a canal view! - Open bar = Friday Drinks! - Option to work up to 4 weeks per calendar year from abroad - Pet-friendly office (with a no-pets zone) - Snacks are on us - Work From Home setup budget of €800,- via Workwize

Where are we

We are located in a beautiful city centre of Amsterdam. Modern-day commerce mixes with Amsterdam’s atmospheric old town in our cosy location that previously served as Woltjer Gymnasium.

Address Keizersgracht 424 Amsterdam, 1016 GC