Software Engineer with Ansible (remote Europe)

Spacelift is an infrastructure orchestration platform that manages your entire infrastructure lifecycle — provisioning, configuration and governance. Spacelift integrates with all your infrastructure tooling (e.g. Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Ansible) to provide a single integrated workflow so you can deliver secure, cost-effective, and resilient infrastructure, fast.

By automating deployment and configuration, providing developer self-service, golden paths with guardrails, and an OPA policy engine, Spacelift empowers businesses to accelerate developer velocity while maintaining control and governance over their infrastructure. Spacelift offers unrivaled support, no-nonsense pricing, and a range of deployment models to fit your specific needs.

Spacelift was founded in 2020 by long-time DevOps practitioner Marcin Wyszynski and successful entrepreneur Pawel Hytry and has raised $31.3M in funding over three rounds from top venture capital firms including Insight Partners, Blossom Capital, Hoxton Ventures, and Inovo Venture partners.

As a software engineer, you will work with your product team to build and extend new features. In addition to that, you will also be contributing to the discovery phase that our UI/UX designers facilitate. You might work on integration with IaC, add support for new policies, or make a change that will make Spacelift even more powerful, easier to use, and loved by our users.

The backend tech stack is Go, AWS, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, OpenPolicyAgent, OpenTofu/Terraform FOSS, Infrastructure-as-Code, CloudNative/Kubernetes, Datadog, and Launchdarkly

The Team

We are a cross-functional product team, 7-8 backend and frontend engineers, a UX/UI designer, and a product manager.

The role

• Implement solutions in Go that work reliably at scale with a strong focus on readability and testability;

• Tackle sophisticated technical challenges involving multiple technologies;

• Work closely with your product team and other teams to design, implement, and deploy new features on the Spacelift platform;

• Participate in discovery sessions with Spacelift users and be curious about their problems, the way they work, and their challenges;

• Be proactive; provide initiative and technical leadership

About You

• Self-motivated and high-performing, with a passion for both the business and the tech;

• Hands-on experience with Go, 1 year or more is a plus;

• 2 + years of Ansible experience 

• 4+ years of experience in software engineering;

• Good understanding of at least one public cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure);

• Product-driven and strong interest in DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Developer Experience topics;

• Experience working on developer tooling internally or externally is a plus;

• Ideally, you worked with an IaC tool — OpenTofu/Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, or AWS CloudFormation – or CloudNative/Kubernetes;

• You have proven experience solving complex technical problems and taking initiative in addressing them;

• Experience in early-stage startup is a plus;

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

How we work

• Small, fast-moving, autonomous teams;

• You and your team drive and give drum beat to the projects end to end;

• Pragmatic and tracer-bullet development;

• You build it, you run it;

• Deployment to production at least once a day;

• We value supporting each other, ownership, transparency, and curiosity;

• Embrace continuous learning with investment days on Fridays;

• Enjoy collaborative hackathons in person each quarter;

• Be part of a team that values innovation and personal growth;

• We are a remote-first company.

What we offer

• Strong compensation plan with equity package;

• 26 days of paid time off annually;

• B2B contract;

• Flexible working hours;

• Option to work from anywhere in the world (CET +/- 3h).

Hiring Process

• 30-minute with our Talent Acquisition Manager;

• 30-minute introductory video call with a Senior Member of the team; 

• Take-home exercise;

• Technical interview with the squad Leads;

• 30 minutes cultural call Wojciech (VP of Engineering);

• Reference check.

Our values

Ownership, Transparency, Humility. More here: https://spacelift.io/careers

Join Us! At Spacelift, you won’t just be working on a technical product - you’ll be part of a team shaping the future of DevOps. Apply to contribute to a platform loved by its users and take your career to the next level!