Our Mission

Were not your average benefits platform were the driving force that uplifts peoples lives. Our technology connects the entire benefits ecosystem creating better outcomes for employers employees brokers and providers.

Our mission is clear: to build a world where everything works at its best ensuring every employee gets the support they need to thriveboth at work and beyond.

Your Mission

As a Platform Engineer at Ben you will join us to ensure stable secure & scalable operations and an excellent developer experience.

Were looking for self-starters who are seeking a fast-paced environment where they can make a difference. Our team is small which means high autonomy ownership and responsibility. We love what we do have fun and while we ship on time take life-work balance seriously.

Things you will be working on...

• Infrastructure Automation: Set up infrastructure components using Terraform (via Terragrunt) with maintainability scalability & reliability in mind

• Developer Tooling: Tooling and processes to support product squads in increasing the speed reliability and visibility of their development workflows

• Observability: Tooling and processes to improve monitoring logging events and tracing at both the infrastructure and application layer

• Collaborating: Working with product squads to deliver infrastructure to support new services/features in a secure and scalable manner

• Resource Optimisation: Working to right-size our services and implement features such as auto-scaling to increase the cost effectiveness of our platform and reduce waste

• Security: Collaborating with the security squad on projects to increase our security posture such as improving our least privilege approach to IAM roles for users and services

• Documentation: Maintaining clear and up-to-date documentation for systems and procedures to increase product squad self-service

Youll thrive here if you...

• Have built cost-effective secure systems in AWS - you understand the trade-offs between different services and can make pragmatic infrastructure decisions.

• Are comfortable with containerised applications (we run on ECS/Fargate) and have used Infrastructure as Code tooling like Terraform to manage cloud resources.

• Have worked extensively with monitoring and observability tools (we use Datadog and Sentry) and know how to debug issues in production.

• Can write solid shell and Python scripts to automate common tasks and build internal tooling.

• Communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences - you can explain complex infrastructure decisions to product teams and leadership.

Nice-to-haves but not deal-breakers:

• Experience implementing SLIs/SLOs and helping product teams track service reliability.

• Background working in ISO 27001 or SOC2 compliant environments.

• Advanced Python development skills (our platform team maintains Python tooling deployed via Lambda).

You will not love this role if you.

• Need a slow pace to feel comfortable - we move fast and we prioritise action even when the path isnt perfectly clear

• Are uncomfortable being accountable for outcomes - this role involves owning projects end-to-end and being responsible for making them succeed and delivering them at a high quality

• Prefer maintaining the status quo - we want to challenge assumptions and push for better ways of working

• Prefer a highly structured environment with established processes and clearly defined boundaries - were still building and sometimes that means creating the path as we go

• Struggle with ambiguity or expect prescriptive direction - youll get support and context but youll need to figure things out and take ownership

• Wait for others to step up or to be told what to do - We are a high-performance and high-reward work place and are looking for people who are proactive

Not sure if you meet 100% of the requirements

Thats okay - we know that not everyone follows a linear career path and we value diverse perspectives and growth mindsets. If you have a solid technical foundation and a strong interest in full stack engineering wed still love to hear from you. That said this role does require hands-on experience so please only apply if you feel confident you can contribute meaningfully from day one.

Our Compensation & Benefits

Its important to us to practise what we preach when it comes to our benefits. We know what good looks like and we want to provide the best for our team with a comprehensive and inclusive benefits package. This means you have a choice over the things that are most important to you.

Competitive base salary equity so you own what you build

100 monthly personal Ben Balance: for whatever works for you whether thats Netflix Spotify or a really expensive cup of coffee! This allowance will increase by 50 for each year of service until you reach 250

500 work from home allowance to help you set yourself up for success whether thats a standing desk a comfy chair or the tech setup that works best for you

1000 annual L&D budget to invest in your professional development from conferences and courses to coaching and books

28 days of holidays a year plus bank holidays and an option to buy or sell 2 days per year. Also your annual holiday entitlement will increase to 30 days after your 3rd year of service!
Day off for your birthday

Comprehensive and tailored mental health support and professional coaching through a leading provider

Work-from-abroad scheme so you can support your travels enjoy an extended holiday or visit loved ones.

Enhanced parental leave and workplace nursery scheme to support with the cost of childcare in a nursery setting

Comprehensive Private Medical Insurance

Funded Life Assurance cover with the option to voluntarily increase - this also includes an annual health check

Comprehensive and tailored mental health support and professional coaching through a leading provider

Diversity and Culture at Ben

We are organically growing a brilliantly diverse inclusive and respectful bunch of people we are extremely proud of. This should go without saying but all applications are very much welcome. If you need any adjustments to support you with your application just let us know by emailing You can learn more about DEI at Ben here.

Required Experience:

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