Staff Platform Engineer
Staff Platform Engineer
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About Birdie
Birdie is the leading home healthcare technology platform that aims to radically transform the lives of older adults. Its allinone solution supports around 4.8 million (and growing) care visits every month equipping care providers with the tools they need to deliver better quality care and improve efficiency across most daytoday operations. This enables us to collect over 1.5 billion data points on care recipient wellbeing each year making Birdie the holder of the largest structured community healthcare dataset in Europe.
Birdie was founded in 2017 a BCorp certified company that leverages technology to reimagine home care. With a total raise to date of $55M we secured our Series B funding in 2022 led by Sofina Omers and Index Ventures fuelling our mission to transform care.
Recognised for its innovation and impact we have received numerous accolades including ranking 6th in the 2023 Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 and 21st in Deloittes EMEA Technology Fast 500 in 2024. We joined Tech Nations prestigious Future Fifty 2024 cohort and was featured in the Sifted 100 list of fastestgrowing UK & Ireland startups in 2024. Furthermore Birdie was named an NHS England Assured Supplier for Digital Social Care Records in 2023 and won the Innovative Solutions in Home Care Award at the 2024 Leaders in Care Awards.
Your mission
As a Staff Platform Engineeryoull contribute to influence and shape both the strategy and implementation of our Platform function at Birdie; working with the Platform team youll develop and expand on our current Kubernetes microservices architecture building and maintaining abstractions and services for our Core engineering teams
Whilst also acting as the technical leader for the Platform coaching fellow Platform engineers and Software engineers working with the Platform Lead fellow Staff engineers and our CTO to develop strategy
Youll be championing reliability and stability across the Engineering Organisation. Instilling SRE principles within teams and leaving your mark on our product
Youll be a key part of our shiftleft DevOps success whether its security bestpractices CI/CD solid production considerations or just leveraging AWS to its fullest youll be at the forefront of our nonfunctional strategies
Who are we looking for
Are passionate about the entire spectrum of reliability engineering and taking a leadership IC role for a scaling company
Experienced with writing code to solve DevOps/Platform problems and are a pragmatic problemsolver knowing when to build vs buy
Able to handle ambiguity and uncertainty adjusting your approach where suitable; You can deliver initiatives from end to end working with cross functional peers from problem to solution
Are someone who gets things done and is willing to step up roll up your sleeves and take responsibility. Youre also a clear communicator negotiator and influencer
Appreciate the product mindset dedicated to understanding user (developer) needs and driving innovation to enhance the overall user experience
Able to work efficiently in a crossfunctional team setting and with a high degree of selfmotivation and accountability
You follow best practice for the technologies you work with and understand why
Youre intensely curious love learning new things and teaching others about them acting as a mentor to other team members.
What skills do you need
Expertise in AWS and cloudnative architecture patterns
Expertise in Kubernetes (specifically EKS) and K8snative tooling (ie Helm)
Comfortable in a coding and scripting language
Have proficiency withleveraging modern tracing metrics and related observability topics i.e. Open Telemetry
Expertise in creating strong CI/CD pipelines and adapting to the feedback you gain from them working with GitOps
Experience working in a securityconscious engineering organisation with proficiencies in DevSecOps principals
Clear understanding of SRE practices goals and implementations
A deep capacity to get things done
Are someone who is inspired by and seeks to embodyour values.
What are the benefits
People are our core strength. We are social entrepreneurs boasting an outstanding culture with strong values (BCorp certified). We offer intentional benefits and invest in our teams growth satisfaction and ability to thrive:
Compensation
Our salary packages are competitive the role is 105k 125k per annum. We also grant generous stock options to any permanent employee at the end of the probation period. We adjust salaries based on the cost of living index for employees based outside of the UK.
Location
This role will need to be based in the UK. We organise regular inperson events and online socials to make sure you can meet up with peers.
Birdie does not currently support any visa applications and therefore we do require permanent right to work in the UK.
L&D budget
Learning an growing is a fundamental part of Birdie life. Youll have an annual personal development budget to put towards books courses trainings and conferences; continuous coaching within the team and with external experts.
Work From Home budget
Making your workspace comfortable is important to us youll have access to a WFH equipment budget to ensure you have what you need.
Paid time off
We offer 33 days of holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) and close between Christmas and New Years outside of this. We also support you in celebrating the big moments all Birdies get an extra Birthday day off and can choose to take it at any point in the year.
Birdie giving days
Birdie is a Bcorp and we care deeply about ethical and social impact. Birdie will pay you for 2 days of volunteering (to a cause youre passionate about) each year.
Sabbaticals
We want Birdies to stick around for a while! After 4 years you can choose to take a sabbatical of up to 3 months.
Private health insurance & Gym and wellbeing discounts
Comprehensive health insurance with AXA that covers many physical and mental health costs. Gym discounts and numerous other wellbeing perks via Happl.
Cycle to work scheme
Birdie will buy a bike upfront and you can salary sacrifice to payoff over the next 1236 months
Parental Leave
Highly favourable parental leave policy; once you have spent twelve consecutive months on our payroll primary caregivers are entitled to 26 weeks of parental leave at 100 of your usual salary and secondary caregivers are entitled to 12 weeks of parental leave at 100 of your usual salary.
Fertility Leave
Birdie recognises the emotional and physical challenges of fertility treatment and investigations and supports all Birdies by offering 5 additional paid days of leave.
Employer pension contribution
Birdie contributes 4 of your salary to your pension when you contribute 5 (UK Birdies)
Frequent company socials trips and meals
We organise many socials quarterly retreats and annual companywide retreats
Diversity Equity Inclusion and Belonging
At Birdie were committed to creating an environment that promotes diversity equity inclusion and belonging.
Its essential to us that youre able to bring your authentic self to work every single day no matter your age ethnicity religion citizenship gender identity sexual orientation disability status caring responsibilities neurodiversity or otherwise and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to these aspects.
If you have any questions regarding the interview process or if you need any reasonable adjustments to be made please dont hesitate to contact us.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
