Platform Engineer

Who are Tyk, and what do we do?

The Tyk API Management platform is helping to drive the connected world and power new products and services. We’re changing the way that organisations connect any number of their systems and services. Whether internal, external, public or highly encrypted systems, Tyk helps businesses drive value across the retail, finance, telecoms, healthcare, or media industries (to name just a few!)

If you’ve banked online, used an app to check the news, or perhaps even driven a connected car, API’s, and by extension, Tyk, make that possible. Founded in 2015 with offices in London - UK, London - Ontario, Atlanta and Singapore, we have many thousands of users of our B2B platform across the globe. Brands using Tyk range from Lotte, Bell, T Mobile, to RBS, Capital One and Vinci.

We have a varied user base hailing from every continent – even Antarctica.

Tyk is on a mission to connect every system in the world. We’ve started by building an API Management platform.

We offer unlimited paid holidays and remote working from anywhere in the world, for everyone. Tyk was founded on the principle of offering flexibility and autonomy to our employees, we believe this allows our employees to achieve their best results. It also means we can build the best possible team, location and working hours are no barrier.

We’re seeking a self-driven Platform Engineer to join our Non-Functionals team as the sole engineer owning release engineering. You’ll need strong software engineering foundations in Go and the autonomy to drive platform and tooling initiatives from conception to delivery with minimal oversight. This role demands someone who proactively identifies problems, builds production-grade solutions, and champions Dev Ops practices across the organization.

You’ll build the release pipelines, platform tooling, and automation that enable our engineering teams to ship reliably and efficiently for both SaaS and on-premises environments.

• Designing, building, and operating release pipelines and infrastructure using GoReleaser and Git Hub Actions—making technical decisions independently and being accountable for outcomes.
• Writing production-quality Go code to build platform engineering tools and automation, applying software engineering best practices (unit testing, code reviews, TDD, SOLID principles).
• Identifying opportunities to improve CI/CD, release engineering, and platform capabilities before they become urgent problems—driving improvements from idea to implementation.
• Creating robust automation for Kubernetes, AWS, and Digital Ocean infrastructure with reliability and observability built-in; writing IaC (Terraform, Helm) with production-code rigor.
• Developing and maintaining packaging systems (RPM, DEB) and container image build pipelines with security compliance (FIPS, signed artifacts); managing package repositories (Docker Hub, Packagecloud, ECR).
• Identifying and implementing AI-assisted automation opportunities across CI/CD and infrastructure operations with strong guardrails, auditability, and measurable impact on toil reduction.
• Collaborating with QA to design comprehensive test frameworks that integrate throughout the CI/CD pipeline.
• Embedding Dev Ops culture and platform engineering best practices into product squads through a consultative approach.
• Supporting ISO 27001/SOC2 audits through automated compliance controls; partnering with Security and SRE teams to ensure AI-enabled workflows meet governance requirements.
• Staying current with release engineering trends and bringing forward recommendations for tooling and process improvements.

• Demonstrable software development background, particularly using Go as a primary language.
• Proven track record as a strong individual contributor who takes ownership, drives initiatives independently, and delivers results with minimal supervision.
• Experience designing, building, and operating production-grade platform tooling and release engineering systems.
• Release engineering, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation at scale.
• Operating Kubernetes in production environments.
• Packaging…