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Platform Engineer Jobs Worldwide
2 open roles · remote, seasonal, work exchange & visa-sponsored
About the Platform Engineer role
Platform Engineers build the internal tools, infrastructure, and developer experience that other engineers rely on — reliability, automation, and scalability of the platform itself is the product.
Skills you'll need
Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi)Container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)CI/CD pipeline designCloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)Observability and incident responseScripting and automation
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Typical credentials
- •CS or systems engineering background typical
- •2+ years in infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles
- •Relevant cloud certifications (AWS/GCP) are a meaningful plus here specifically
Resume tips for Platform Engineer applications
- •Quantify reliability and automation impact (deploy time reduced, incidents prevented, infra cost saved)
- •List specific tools rather than "DevOps experience"
Sample resume for Platform Engineer
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FREYA SOLBERG
freya.solberg@email.com · Remote (CET) · github.com/fsolberg
SUMMARY
Platform Engineer with 5 years building the infrastructure and developer tooling other engineers rely on. Deep experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD at scale.
EXPERIENCE
Platform Engineer, Ironwood Cloud — Remote | 2021–Present
• Own the internal Kubernetes platform serving 40+ engineering teams
• Reduced average deploy time from 22 minutes to 4 by rebuilding the CI/CD pipeline with cached, parallelized builds
• Migrated infrastructure-as-code from hand-rolled scripts to Terraform, cutting environment provisioning from 2 days to 20 minutes
DevOps Engineer, Alderfield Systems — Oslo, Norway (Hybrid) | 2018–2021
• Built the company's first centralized observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana), cutting mean time-to-diagnosis by 60%
• Led migration from EC2 to containerized workloads on ECS, reducing infra costs by 25%
• On-call lead for infrastructure incidents, maintaining 99.95% platform uptime
SKILLS
Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, AWS/GCP, CI/CD pipeline design, Prometheus/Grafana, incident response, Go/Python scripting
EDUCATION
B.S. Computer Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology | 2018
Build your own with the Resume Enhancer →Cover letter tips
- •Reference their likely infra scale/stack if public and speak to relevant migration or scaling work you've done
Sample cover letter for Platform Engineer
Same idea — a structure to learn from, not to send as-is.
Dear Hiring Manager,
I'm applying for the Platform Engineer role because I like being the person other engineers depend on without thinking about it — which is what good platform work looks like.
At Ironwood Cloud, I own the internal Kubernetes platform serving 40+ engineering teams, and I rebuilt our CI/CD pipeline to cut average deploy time from 22 minutes to 4. I also led the migration of our infrastructure-as-code from hand-rolled scripts to Terraform, which brought environment provisioning down from two days to twenty minutes — a change that quietly unblocked a lot of other teams' velocity.
I care about reliability as much as speed; I built our observability stack at my previous role specifically to cut down the guesswork during incidents. I'd welcome a conversation about your current infrastructure and where it's under the most strain.
Sincerely,
Freya Solberg
Generate your own with the Cover Letter Generator →Common interview questions for Platform Engineer roles
- •Walk me through how you'd design CI/CD for a team shipping multiple times a day.
- •Tell me about an infrastructure migration you led. What went wrong and how did you handle it?
- •How do you balance platform standardization with individual teams' different needs?
- •Describe your approach to on-call and incident response for infrastructure issues.
- •What's your approach to infrastructure cost optimization without hurting reliability?
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