Senior Platform Engineer (Postgres, AWS, Kubernetes)

kernel • United Kingdom

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AI Summary

Join Kernel as a Senior Platform Engineer to own and scale our Postgres, AWS, and Kubernetes stack. You'll solve bottlenecks around high-volume writes, wide-attribute data models, replication, and real-time vs analytical data paths. You'll bring Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or Pulumi) practices to productionize and automate our infra.

Key Highlights

Design and scale real-time write/read paths that balance OLTP and OLAP needs

Implement IaC (Terraform or Pulumi) across AWS/K8s for reproducible infra and faster iteration

Experiment with schema options for wide-attribute entities and indexing strategies

Hardening replication and data movement between Postgres and analytical stores

Consolidating and right-sizing K8s queues, with scheduling/guardrails for heavy jobs

Technical Skills Required

Postgres AWS Kubernetes Terraform Pulumi NodeJS Typescript NextJS Typescript Tailwind JSONB partitioning pglogical replication strategies Redshift Clickhouse ElasticSearch OpenSearch vector DBs Weaviate Pinecone FAISS Datadog Prometheus Grafana CloudWatch Kafka Kinesis MSK

Benefits & Perks

Salary: £120 - 200k + equity

Equity

24 days of holiday per year

2 weeks working from anywhere

Pension

Visa sponsorship for exceptional candidates

Job Description

TL;DR: Join Kernel as an in-office, backend-savvy Senior Platform Engineer to own and scale our Postgres, AWS, and Kubernetes stack. You’ll solve bottlenecks around high-volume writes, wide-attribute data models, replication, and real-time vs analytical data paths while bringing Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or Pulumi) practices to productionize and automate our infra.

This role pays £120k – 200k + equity, with visa sponsorship if needed, via a 4-step hiring flow: intro chat → 2-hr take-home → onsite deep-dive → founder values interview.

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