Senior Platform Engineer

Build the Kubernetes platform Europe deserves. Join Safespring!

Why this role matters

We're building the cloud Europe deserves - open, trustworthy, and competitive. The market for sovereign EU tech has never been better.

You will build and operate Safespring's Kubernetes platform: Talos Linux on our own OpenStack, lifecycle automation we own, and Ferga as the self-service layer for provisioning.

This is not managed Kubernetes with a vendor control plane underneath. We run the platform ourselves. You can work fully remotely from anywhere in the EU, or from our Stockholm office. We’ll sort you out with the gear you need, plus the stability of a collective bargaining agreement (or equivalent outside Sweden).

You will work on:

• Production Kubernetes operations: upgrades, lifecycle, reliability, disaster recovery, and incident response.
• Platform automation: GitOps, CI/CD, observability, cluster add-ons, and operational tooling.
• Ferga: our self-service portal for Kubernetes provisioning and platform workflows.
• Service exposure: ingress, DNS, certificates, NetworkPolicies, and related integrations.
• Multi-tenant cluster operations and developer-facing platform services.

Useful experience:

• You have operated Kubernetes in production, including upgrades and incidents.
• You understand enough Kubernetes internals to debug networking, storage, scheduling, and node failure scenarios.
• You can build production software in Go.
• You are familiar with Helm, GitOps, OpenTofu/Terraform, CI/CD, and observability tools.
• You are comfortable running infrastructure without relying on managed-cloud safety nets.

Nice to have

• Kubernetes operators/controllers, Kubebuilder, Operator SDK, and CRDs.
• Talos Linux on OpenStack.
• BGP, ingress, DNS, certificates, NetworkPolicies, and service exposure.
• Security, incident response, and platform reliability work

Your Team

You'll join our dev team lead by Yuna. The team owns both the platform which customers consume and the developer experience layered on top.

Two-week sprints with demos and retros that actually change how we work. We're remote-friendly, but we value time together. Company offsite in May, and team travel to conferences (KubeCon, OpenInfra, that kind of thing).

Reality check

We are a small team running real infrastructure. There is no external managed Kubernetes team to escalate to. Priorities shift, context is sometimes incomplete, and the on-call rotation belongs to us. This role fits someone who wants to own a platform end-to-end, automate recurring pain, and make practical engineering trade-offs.

Location: EU/EEA remote or Stockholm office Salary: 65,000–85,000 EUR yearly Start: As soon as possible

Interested?

We care more about how you think than how polished your CV looks. Click Apply, send us what you have, and we'll take it from there.

Questions about this role? Message Marietta, our people lead, at marietta@safespring.com.

About Safespring

At Safespring, we're giving European organizations an alternative to the hyperscalers. Powered by open source, our sustainable and European-based cloud infrastructure puts security, transparency, and digital sovereignty first.