What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Platform Engineer position at Xtremepush?
About the Role
We are currently seeking a Senior Platform Engineer with extensive experience in managing scaled SaaS production infrastructure.
As part of our team, you will focus on enhancing site reliability, security, and scalability to support our rapid growth. The ideal candidate is a proactive and driven professional who thrives on tackling complex technical challenges, optimising performance, and delivering scalable solutions. Our core technologies include PHP, MySQL, Vue.js, and AWS, and participation in an on-call rotation is a key aspect of this role.
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Key Responsibilities
- Act as a senior member of the DevOps team, supporting activities including the backlog and workload of the team, scoping requirements, peer review of code, providing feedback to the rest of the team.
- Represent the team in management and stakeholder meetings. Ensure best practices are kept, and suggest improvements to our development processes where you see gaps.
- Investigate, test, and resolve technical problems, working closely with other engineers to deliver core product functionality.
- The security, stability and uptime of production, staging and development environments
- Monitoring the above environments and reacting to alerts and issues that may arise in day-to-day operation of their product line
- Participate in an on-call rota for priority-1 level alarms with the rest of the Ops team
- Ongoing upgrades and improvements to infrastructure and processes
- Contribute to the planning of application / infrastructure releases and configuration changes
- Interact with internal teams and external 3rd party vendors to troubleshoot and resolve complex problems
Your Experience and Qualifications
Location
This is a hybrid role based in New York
About us
Headquartered in Ireland with offices in the UK and US, Xtremepush is an Omnichannel Customer Engagement Platform powered by a built-in CDP. It enables high-velocity companies to build, grow, and retain strong customer relationships through personalised, relevant, and timely communication. With a true single customer view at its core, Xtremepush provides actionable customer intelligence that drives engagement, conversion, and revenue across all channels, while putting customer retention first.
At Xtremepush, we believe that diversity adds incredible value to our teams, our products, and our culture. We don’t just accept differences, we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products and our community. As an equal opportunity employer, we stay true to our mission by ensuring that our place can be anyone’s place regardless of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.
