Platform Engineer

At Shiftbase, we help businesses reclaim time from manual administration. Our scalable workforce management platform streamlines scheduling, time tracking, and leave management for shift-based teams. With over 10,000 customers and rapid growth across Europe, we’re building the future of workforce automation, targeting 250,000 businesses by 2034.

Why Shiftbase

Join a high-growth B2B SaaS company where speed, ownership, and innovation drive everything we do. You'll work in a collaborative environment with cross-functional teams and smart, ambitious colleagues. We’re building software that has a real impact on thousands of organizations across Europe.

The role

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in evolving the infrastructure behind our SaaS platform. You’ll design and maintain secure, scalable systems while enabling product teams through automation, CI/CD improvements, and self-service tooling. Your work will accelerate development, reduce toil, and raise reliability standards across the organization.

We value simplicity over complexity, long-term reliability over quick wins, and enablement over control. You’ll bring senior-level insight, proactive problem-solving, and a pragmatic mindset to help us scale confidently.

Since this is a hybrid position, we are looking for someone who is located in The Netherlands

What you’ll do

• Design, build, and manage secure, scalable infrastructure (GCP, K8s)

• Improve CI/CD pipelines to increase deployment speed and reliability

• Enhance observability with effective monitoring, alerting, and logging

• Reduce technical debt through automation and infrastructure refactoring

• Drive developer enablement via tooling, documentation, and support

• Advocate for platform best practices across security, performance, and reliability

• Support incident response and continuous platform hardening

What you bring

• Strong experience with cloud infrastructure, containerization, and CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Terraform, GitOps)

• Solid grasp of SRE practices, platform architecture, and DevEx principle

• A collaborative, communicative approach to working with development teams

• A pragmatic mindset focused on scalable, maintainable solutions

• Bonus: scripting skills (Bash, Python, Go), internal tooling development, or observability stack experience

What we offer

• Salary range: €60.000-€84.000 (excluding holiday pay)

• 25 vacation days (based on 40-hour contract)

• Hybrid work model 

• High-end hardware 

• Pension plan 

• NS Business Card & travel reimbursement

• Personal training budget

• Team events, hackathons, and more 

• Opportunity to shape a growing product and engineering culture