Platform Engineer

We are looking for a Platform Engineer to help us build and maintain our infrastructure, ensure system reliability, and optimize application performance at scale.

Ludus is a SaaS company that builds digital tools trusted by thousands of organizations of all sizes to power their event ticketing, marketing, fundraising, retail and registration needs.

The Platform Engineer at Ludus is responsible for expanding and managing the web services that power the company’s ecosystem. This role involves designing and implementing scalable, high-performing solutions for servers, databases, and deployment strategies.

The position plays a key part in building a sustainable and reliable future for Ludus’ growing platform and user base. With a strong understanding of business goals, the Platform Engineer helps shape architecture and development operations across the suite of applications.

Beyond modernizing core systems and optimizing performance, this role plays a strategic part in scaling reliability through improved redundancy and better distribution of infrastructure expertise across the team.

Responsibilities include hands‑on work with database backups, server deployments, monitoring, and other key infrastructure tasks that help maintain system stability and reliability.

The Platform Engineer will be an important part of a collaborative engineering team and have the opportunity to contribute meaningfully to a fast‑growing product while shaping the future of infrastructure at Ludus.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

While our team generally works during standard business hours (9–5), Ludus offers a flexible work environment. We encourage employees to work in a way that suits them best. However, this is not a strict 9–5 job. While it’s incredibly rare, there may be occasions when urgent issues require immediate attention outside of normal hours. We maintain a rotating on‑call schedule (approximately 5‑6 weeks/year) to ensure fair distribution of any after‑hours responsibilities among team members.

If you’re uncomfortable with the possibility of jumping in to help during emergencies or participating in our on‑call rotation, this may not be the right role for you.

• Application Stack: PHP and Laravel (TALL Stack) with a MySQL database. We are migrating to Laravel while maintaining our legacy system. The Platform Engineer will help stabilize and optimize both

• Infrastructure:
  Linux, Nginx, Docker, Ansible, Cloudflare, Terraform

• Cloud Provider:
  We use Digital Ocean as our cloud provider, but we are in the process of moving to AWS and would be looking for this Platform Engineer to be heavily involved in that migration

At Ludus, our mission is to bring people together through shared experiences. It’s a big goal that allows for limitless expansion to make a difference in the world.

We move fast and are constantly learning and adapting. We embrace low process and high trust to navigate change and figure out what works.

We believe success is never final and when you think it is, that is when you fail. For us, success is a sum of small efforts, including trial and error, so we move at an unrelenting weekly pace.

In order to grow as a company and individually, discomfort is necessary so we can continue exploring new ideas and push ourselves to build quality tools to offer the best solutions for our customers.

If you prefer a hand‑holding environment where everything is black and white, that’s not us. If you’re a self‑starter and can thrive in controlled chaos, Ludus is the place for you — it’s time to find your role

• Help migrate our infrastructure from Digital Ocean to AWS

• Infrastructure automation and configuration management

• Helping to manage our…