Platform Engineer

A World-Changing Company

Meticulous is radically accelerating the pace of software development. We've built the world's first fully autonomous and exhaustive testing platform for frontend codebases - a capability that has never existed before and that we believe is the missing piece in unlocking the full potential of code generation.

The demand has been immense. Companies like Dropbox, Wiz, and Notion often pay more for Meticulous than any other software product in their stack, and spontaneously refer us to others. Our team of eleven has achieved this by bringing together some of the most talented engineers from Uber, Google, Dropbox, Git Hub, Meta, and Palantir.

You can learn more about the company in this video here.

The First Platform Engineer

Meticulous replays thousands of recorded user sessions against every pull request. This requires infrastructure that is fast, reliable, and cost-efficient at scale.

As a Platform Engineer, you'll own the systems that make this possible. You'll design and build resilient infrastructure to support 10x growth, operate it in production, and shape our incident processes for when things break. This is not a maintenance role, you'll define how we build and operate as we scale.

You'll have significant autonomy. We're a small team, and you'll be the first dedicated platform engineer. That means you'll make real architectural decisions, not just execute on someone else's design.

Your work will involve pioneering our approach to platform engineering, from infrastructure and security to developer experience:

• Architecting Resilient Infrastructure: Design, build, and scale the compute platform that powers Meticulous, managing our cloud infrastructure through Terraform with proper change management. Optimise infrastructure costs, balancing performance and spend as we scale.

• Own Production Reliability: Improve our monitoring, alerting, incident response, and on-call rotation to ensure that when systems encounter problems, we’re able to respond quickly and effectively to resolve incidents.

• Write Production Code Beyond Infrastructure: This role blends platform engineering with general software development work.

• Improve Developer
  
  Experience:
  
  Build internal tooling and automation that improves developer productivity and allows us to accelerate growth

• Build the playbook: As our first platform engineer, you’ll establish infrastructure standards and practices for a growing engineering team, maintaining security and compliance standards across our infrastructure.

• Exceptional engineering skills: 3+ years of experience in a software development or platform engineering role.

• Infrastructure expertise: Experience operating production systems on AWS (or other cloud provider), hands-on with Kubernetes, and enough Terraform to have opinions about how to structure it. Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar).

• Strong technical foundation: Demonstrated ability to write production-quality code and solve hard technical problems (experience with Python, Type Script/JavaScript, systems programming, or browser internals is valuable).

• On-call experience: you know how to triage issues under pressure, drive them to resolution, and write the postmortem afterward. You understand that reliability is built through good design, not just good monitoring.

• Awareness of security best practices and compliance requirements (SOC 2 or similar).

• Cost consciousness: not just making things work, but making them work economically 've rightsized compute, managed Spot instances, or made similar trade-offs.

• High drive and bias for action: you thrive with minimal supervision, make decisions quickly, and take ownership of outcomes. When you see a problem, you fix it. This role demands entrepreneurial self-drive and comfort with ambiguity.

Shape a new function

As the first Platform Engineer, you'll define how this role evolves and grow into leadership as the team expands.

Exceptional growth

You grow through a combination of the people you work with, and the experiences you’re exposed to. Within that context:

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