(Senior) Software Engineer

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As a Senior Platform Engineer on Dedrone’s Infrastructure Services team, you will accelerate product development by building and maintaining the core infrastructure, tooling, and automation systems that engineering teams rely on. This role enables deep technical ownership and provides significant opportunities to influence engineering standards, developer experience, and future platform architecture across the product teams.
Location: Onsite at our London, UK office 4 days a week
Reports to: Engineering Manager, Infrastructure Services
Own, design, and optimize CI/CD pipelines supporting Dedrone’s distributed, product ecosystem—reducing build times, deployment friction, and manual overhead.
Build, automate, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or AWS CDK), ensuring scalable, secure, and reusable cloud environments.
3+ years of relevant experience in cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, backend engineering, or platform/DevOps roles, with an emphasis on practical, hands-on expertise over formal education.
~ Proficiency with modern cloud and automation tooling, including CI/CD pipeline development, AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch), Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or AWS CDK), and containerization using Docker and orchestration tools such as ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes.
~ Strong engineering fundamentals, including backend development experience (e.g., Java, Go, Python), as well as Linux, Bash, and scripting skills used for automation, debugging, and improving developer workflows.
~ This role is based out of our London, UK office and follows a hybrid schedule. We rely on in-person collaboration and ask that team members work onsite Tuesday through Friday, with flexibility to work remotely on Mondays unless there is an approved workplace accommodation. We believe that connection fuels innovation, and our in-office culture is designed to foster meaningful teamwork, mentorship, and shared success.
Competitive base salary and RSUs
~ Comprehensive pension plan with matching contribution
~ Private health insurance & cash plans
~30 days paid holiday + UK public holidays
~ Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
~ Life assurance & income protection
~ Career growth support and wellness resources

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