Job Openings Senior Platform Engineer

About the job Senior Platform Engineer

Manatal is an HRTech software service (B2B SaaS) company headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand. Manatal is one of the fastest-growing start-ups in the region and is backed by Surge and Sequoia Capital. Manatal has a global presence and is trusted by thousands of businesses in over 135 countries, and is recognized by Forbes as Best Recruiting Software of 2024.

Our goal is to transform the entire hiring process by making it simple, efficient, and enjoyable for recruiters, hiring managers, and candidates alike.

Our mission is to offer the best-in-class AI-powered technologies to empower small, medium, and large businesses in their staffing & recruitment transformation.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our team. You will focus on improving the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems, working closely with engineering and operations to ensure smooth, stable, and efficient platform operations. You will also help improve the developer experience by automating workflows and building custom tools.

Responsibilities

  • Monitor and operate production systems to ensure high availability and reliability
  • Improve observability through better metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting
  • Automate manual and repetitive operations tasks to improve efficiency
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to design resilient, scalable systems
  • Improve developer experience by building custom tools and automating infrastructure
  • Participate in on-call rotations and handle incident response
  • Conduct post-incident reviews and drive system improvements
  • Benchmark, test, and optimize system performance and scalability
  • Enhance CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and infrastructure processes

Requirements

  • Strong experience with AWS (or other major cloud providers such as GCP or Azure)
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration
  • Solid Linux systems knowledge
  • Programming skills in Golang, Python, Bash, or similar
  • Familiarity with CI/CD and automation tools: ArgoCD, Crossplane, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Ansible
  • Strong understanding of cloud security best practices and tools such as Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or HashiCorp Consul
  • Experience with observability and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Loki, Datadog)
  • Solid understanding of networking, load balancing, DNS, and security

Nice to Have

  • Background in software engineering
  • Strong focus on improving developer experience and setting best practices
  • Cross-team collaboration and communication skills

Working with Manatal 

  • This role is based at our Bangkok office in the heart of the city center
  • As a team of diverse cultures and nationalities, English language proficiency is required
  • We enjoy collaborating in person and the team is working on-site

Why you'll enjoy working with Manatal

  • Well-funded start-up backed by Surge & Sequoia
  • Be part of one of the fastest-growing B2B SaaS start-ups in the region
  • You will be collaborating with talented individuals in the industry
  • Join a lively and highly international team
  • Indulge in a challenging and innovative working culture
  • Attractive medical healthcare plan
  • Personal development allowance
  • 2 weeks of work from anywhere per year
  • Regular fun team-building activities
  • Company trip

Our Tech Stack

Our engineering team leverages a variety of modern technologies. While working at Manatal, you can expect to be exposed to the following stack:

  • Infrastructure: Amazon Web Services; Kubernetes; GitOps (ArgoCD), Github Actions
  • Backend: Language: Python; Web Frameworks: Python frameworks including Django, Flask, Fast API;
  • Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, and Redis, among others;
  • Other: Celery, RabbitM,Q among others.
  • Frontend: Javascript & Vue.JS

Hiring Process

You can expect in our hiring process some or all of the following rounds:

  1. Interview with the HR Team
  2. Technical Online Screening Assessment
  3. Technical Interview with the Engineering Team

Apply on our Careers Page
If you are a fit for this role and are excited to join Manatal, please follow this link to apply
https://www.careers-page.com/manatal/job/L3X639RW

Watch our Demo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GG1GqXkAKQ 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjinpYMUMoc

Manatal Hiring

At Manatal, we are dedicated to building an intuitive AI-powered application tracking system to streamline and transform the entire hiring and recruitment process.

We are devoted to attracting the best talent worldwide to join our team and take pride in being an equal-opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, gender, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, marital or parental status, disability, age, citizenship or other class protected by applicable law.


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