Location: UK, Portugal, Remote

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Permanent

About YLD:

Our goal is to help our clients keep moving forward. We work with them to build the skills and capabilities they need to stay ahead of the competition, and we know our success only happens when they succeed. We’re a team of curious, talented people, and we’re committed to making YLD a place where great people want to work, grow, and stay.

We’re a remote-first consultancy specialising in software engineering, product design, and data. Our teams are based across London, Lisbon, and Porto, and we create digital solutions that continue to deliver value long after our work is done.

About the role:

As a Senior Software Engineer at YLD, you’ll be part of a client team building innovative products. We’re looking for someone curious, passionate, driven, and enthusiastic. You should be skilled in problem-solving and experienced in designing scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures. You’re also an effective communicator and a strong team player. Together with your team, you’ll thrive in a fast-paced engineering environment, delivering outstanding results and exciting projects.

Preferred Skills:

• Strong backend engineering experience, with Go as a primary or preferred language;
• Comfortable working in cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud;
• Experience building and maintaining APIs and backend services, including SaaS platforms;
• Familiarity with modern infrastructure and distributed systems;
• Solid understanding of modern deployment practices, including Docker, containers, and Kubernetes;
• Strong background in testing strategies, including TDD, across the full system lifecycle, with a focus on performance optimization;
• Use AI tools to augment your work, applying sound judgement to adopt emerging technologies where they genuinely add value and increase your impact as an engineer.

You should apply if you are:

• Self-motivated, proactive and always looking for ways to improve and develop yourself;
• A good communicator, both in writing and verbally. You’ll be able to explain technical ideas and concepts in business-friendly language;
• Detail-oriented;
• Possess strong problem-solving skills that balance innovation with pragmatic technology choices to solve business needs;
• Used to working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment;
• Analytical and problem-solving-oriented;
• A genuine believer in diversity and fairness.

Benefits you’ll receive:

• Company Private Health care
• Enhanced fully paid maternity and paternity leave for up to 6 months
• Enhanced pension scheme (only for UK)
• 25 days annual holiday (excluding Public Holidays)
• £/€2000 annual learning and development budget for training courses and conferences
• £/€300 annual allowance for additional hardware
• Wellbeing & Performance Support via Oli including Therapy and Coaching
• Discretionary Bonus (depending on Company performance and results)
• Generous referral schemes

Our typical recruitment process:

• 1st Interview with a Talent Partner (30/45 mins)
• Technical Interview with our Senior Developers (1h30)

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We live and breathe our values, and know you will too:

• Growing every day
• Including everyone
• Relationships built on honesty and ethics
• Inspiring solutions
• Winning together

We’re an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity in all its forms. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability. We also offer a remote-first working environment, with flexible working and work–life balance as standard for all employees.

Responsibilities

We're looking for a hands-on Platform/Observability Engineer to join our infrastructure team. You'll own and evolve our observability stack - from logging pipelines and tracing to metrics and alerting - across a multi-datacenter, Kubernetes-based environment. This is a production-first role: you'll be expected to ship, iterate, and improve systems under real delivery pressure, not just design them on paper.
You'll work closely with other infra and product engineering teams to improve observability coverage, reduce operational toil, and help the broader organization adopt better practices.
Tech Stack Highlights: OpenTelemetry · Kafka · Vector · VictoriaMetrics · EKS · Kubernetes · Logging pipelines · Distributed tracing · SPM· AWS

• Designing, deploying, and maintaining production observability stacks (logs, metrics, traces)

• Scaling observability infrastructure across multiple data centers and Kubernetes clusters

• Owning logging pipeline architecture and refactoring efforts

• Improving distributed tracing coverage and driving adoption across engineering teams

• Managing EKS upgrades, node exporters, agents, and collectors

• Automating operational tasks to reduce toil and improve system stability

• Contributing to compliance and audit readiness (access controls, data handling, pipeline integrity)

• Evaluating and adopting new observability tooling - knowing what's worth pursuing and what isn't

Requirements

Core technical experience:

• 8+ years of industry experience

• Solid hands-on production experience with observability systems

• Strong plus - familiarity with OpenTelemetry, Kafka, Vector, and VictoriaMetrics (vmagent, alerting rules)

• Experience with logging pipelines: design, deployment, and refactoring

• Understanding of distributed tracing and SPM (Service Performance Monitoring) built on top of tracing

• Experience with Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management (EKS preferred)

• Practical knowledge of storage trade-offs for observability data at scale

Nice to have  

• Experience using AI to automate infrastructure or observability tasks (e.g., automated RCA, PR generation, deployment workflows)

• Familiarity with AI-assisted tooling selection and workflow integration

• Experience with MCP (custom or open-source implementations)

• Background in cloud account or environment migrations

• Experience preparing infrastructure for compliance/audit processes

• Understanding network architecture, troubleshooting and incident resolution skills in Production environment, writing Post-mortems.

• Experience with containers and Kubernetes (installation and configuration of operators). 

• Basic knowledge of one or more high-level programming languages, such as Python, Golang, Java

Soft Skills / Personal Characteristics

• Good communication and collaboration skills in international technological companies.

• Interest in modern big distributed storage technologies, architectures.

• Good Spoken English to participate in product-related, architectural and technical discussions.

• Proper balance between being hands-on and deeper analytical approaches

(REQ ID: 2640)