Platform Engineer (Stateful Platform)
| Posting date: | 28 June 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 July 2025 |
| Location: | London, EC2M 4AA |
| Company: | NatWest Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | R-00260084 |
Summary
Join us as a Platform Engineer
- At NatWest Boxed, we're looking to expand our partnerships and become the go-to platform to start, run and grow a business
- You’ll help us achieve this by making sure our platforms are secure, scalable and available, collaborating across teams to share and re-utilise good practice and technology stacks
- Get ready to explore your capability and advance your career in this fast paced and high profile role
What you'll do
As our Platform Engineer, you'll be joining our team to manage and deliver Kafka, databases and other stateful workloads to engineers.
Day to day, you'll be:
- Making changes to the platform, adding new features and ensuring defects are resolved in a timely manner
- Creating solutions that enhance the developer experience and introducing new features through a self-service platform rooted in Kubernetes
- Designing and implementing solutions to increase the stability, resilience and security of our stateful platform
- Developing clean, elegant, and reusable code that is well tested and easy to maintain and extend
The skills you'll need
To thrive as a Platform Engineer at NatWest Boxed, you'll need to be able to design and develop our internal stateful developer platform.
You’ll also need:
- Operational experience with distributed systems
- Experience developing with relational databases (Postgres/MySQL)
- Experience delivering cloud infrastructure with Terraform
- Good knowledge of Go
- Experience managing stateful workloads ideally in Kubernetes
- Knowledge and experience using a commercial cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure)