Mid-level Software Engineer

## About Spacelift ##

Spacelift is a VC-funded startup building an infrastructure orchestrator and collaborative management platform for Infrastructure-as-Code – from OpenTofu, Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Kubernetes, to Ansible. It's the quickest way to implement best GitOps practices for your cloud resources. From startups to large enterprises, we help teams around the world move faster with confidence.

We have a deeply technical product, trying to build something customers love to use, and have a lot of happy and satisfied customers. We promise interesting work, the ability to open source parts of the project which don't give us a business advantage, as well as healthy working hours. Our values are Ownership, Transparency, Humility.

## The Role: Mid-level Software Engineer ##

We are looking for mid-level software engineers who want to contribute to every aspect of building new functionality – from the discovery, delivery, testing, to release. We build highly technical products that need both good understanding of problems our users face and excellent engineering to nail the solution.

**Responsibilities:**

*   Building scalable solutions in Go with a strong focus on pragmatism (Backend is 100% Go with AWS primitives).
*   Owning features end-to-end from the discovery process, through creating designs to implementation, testing, deployment and maintenance.
*   Tackling sophisticated technical challenges involving multiple technologies while keeping the user experience delightful.
*   Keeping learning about how engineers around the world build their infrastructure in order make their day to day work easier.
*   Participating in the on-call rotation ("You build it, you run it").
*   Doing DevOps'y stuff sometimes, embracing the spirit of our company.

**The Team:**

We work in small product teams of up to 8 people – a team lead, backend and frontend engineers, a UX/UI designer, and a product manager. We work closely, pair on problems, move fast with continuous deployments, deliver features iteratively, and have transparent communication.

## About You (Ideal Candidate) ##

*   Passion for building products, love for tech, and interest in the problem space (DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Developer Experience).
*   Experience in the tech industry (software engineering, platform, or/and DevOps). The careers page mentions 3+ years hands-on programming and 4+ years in tech for the combined Mid/Senior posting.
*   Hands-on experience in programming in a compiled language (e.g., Go, C++, Java, C#). Golang experience is a plus.
*   Experience implementing software that utilized at least one major cloud provider — AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. We use AWS primitives extensively.
*   Familiarity with the concept of IaC and ideally experience working with an IaC tool, i.e. OpenTofu/Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, or SaltStack.
*   Excellent communication skills.
*   Experience working in early-stage startups, creating and/or contributing to open-source projects or founding a company is a strong plus.

## What We Offer ##

*   B2B compensation: $80,000 to $110,000+ annually (range specified for Mid/Senior combined).
*   Equity package.
*   26 days of paid time off annually.
*   Learning & education budget.
*   Option to work from anywhere within European timezones (CET +/- 2h).
*   Innovative culture shaping the future of cloud infrastructure management.
*   Healthy working hours and flexible work environment.
*   Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI tooling like Claude Code.