Senior Platform Engineer

Founded in 2001, Resident Advisor (RA) is one of the world's longest-running music media brands and a cornerstone of the dance, electronic and DJ ecosystem. The site's audience of over 7 million monthly users is drawn in by a combination of news, editorial, club listings and ticketing, RA‑branded events at venues and festivals worldwide, original films and a weekly mix series that has run for 20 years.

Our Core Platform team is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help scale and optimize our high‑traffic backend infrastructure, which faces unique technical challenges due to massive traffic spikes during peak on‑sale events.

You'll work with a modern tech stack featuring microservices built in Node.js and .NET, supported by MSSQL and Postgre

SQL databases, alongside technologies like Elastic Search and Redis. Our infrastructure primarily runs on Kubernetes clusters hosted in AWS EKS, managed through Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, with CI/CD pipelines enabling rapid deployments. We embrace event‑driven architecture patterns using Kafka and maintain a strong focus on site reliability, leveraging Data Dog for comprehensive monitoring to ensure optimal performance.

In this role, you'll be responsible for maintaining and improving the performance, availability, and reliability of our backend infrastructure. You'll drive infrastructure modernization initiatives while optimizing for cost efficiency, and develop critical shared infrastructure components such as authentication/authorization systems and Graph

QL gateways. A key part of your impact will be enhancing the developer experience across our engineering teams, maintaining systems that enable comprehensive E2E testing, and creating internal tooling that streamlines business processes company‑wide. This is an opportunity to work on challenging scale problems while shaping the technical foundation that powers our platform.

• Managing and improving AWS infrastructure using infrastructure‑as‑code practices
• Database maintenance and query optimization
• Cloud cost optimization and resource efficiency
• Researching, planning, and leading improvements to our backend infrastructure
• Providing functional and technical training and support to developers
• Writing application code to support infrastructure tooling and shared platform services

• Experience working with AWS
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerised application deployment
• Experience with infrastructure‑as‑code technologies (Terraform preferred)
• Experience deploying and maintaining SQL‑based databases (Postgre
  
  SQL or MS SQL Server)
• Experience writing production‑level application code
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with git and version control workflows
• Strong documentation writing skills and commitment to knowledge sharing
• Strong interpersonal skills with openness to giving and receiving feedback
• Fluent English communication skills (written and verbal)

• Experience with both Postgre
  
  SQL and MS SQL Server
• Advanced SQL query optimisation skills
• Experience deploying and maintaining Kafka for event‑driven architectures
• Experience deploying and maintaining ETL pipelines
• Experience with Data Dog for monitoring and alerting
• Deep understanding of Site Reliability Engineering principles and best practices
• Experience with backend languages such as C# and Node.js
• Experience with scripting languages (such as Bash, Python, Power Shell)
• Experience managing high‑traffic systems with significant load variations

• Generous annual leave policies aimed at promoting work‑life balance.
• Flexibility in working arrangements, offering hybrid or remote work options based on role requirements and location.
• Matching pension schemes and/or 401k.
• Comprehensive staff wellbeing initiatives, featuring regular activities and workplace programmes to support mental and physical health. This includes discounted Classpass memberships, and custom‑fitted earplugs.
• Company‑led social events, team lunches, and discounts on RA merch.
• Paid annual volunteering allowance, encouraging contributions to community projects and charities you care about.
• Regu…