Platform Engineer

Job Overview

Our Mission We’re not your average benefits platform – we’re the driving force that uplifts people’s 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 thrive—both 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. We’re 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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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

Required Qualifications

You'll 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.

Benefits

💰 Competitive base salary + equity, so you own what you build
💳 £100 monthly personal Ben Balance: for whatever works for you, whether that's 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 that's a standing desk, a comfy chair, or the tech setup that works best for you
📚 £1,000 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...