Software Engineer – remote Europe (Mid and Senior)

Spacelift is an infrastructure orchestrator and collaborative management platform for Infrastructure-as-Code – from OpenTofu, Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Kubernetes, to Ansible. It is the quickest way to implement best GitOps practices for your cloud resources. You can also use Spacelift as an API-driven orchestrator to power your internal developer and self-service platforms.

In the last 5 years, Spacelift is defining what it means to work with Infrastructure-as-Code at scale and popularized many best practices, such as Policy-as-Code for infrastructure, stack dependencies, and drift detection. From startups to large enterprises, we help teams around the world move faster with confidence. We have more to come in 2025, more areas to disrupt, and we need your help.

We are looking for 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.

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. To move fast and make better decisions, we work closely and pair on problems and issues. We care about each other.

The role

• Building scalable solutions in Go with a strong focus on pragmatism

• Owning the features end to end from the discovery process, through creating designs to implementation, testing, deployment and maintenance

• Tackle sophisticated technical challenges involving multiple technologies while keeping the user experience delightful

• Keep learning about how engineers around the world build their infrastructure in order make their day to day work easier

• You build it, you run it – you will also be part of the on-call rotation

About You

• Passion for building products, love for tech, and interest in the problem space (DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Developer Experience)

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in programming in a compiled language - Go, C++, Java, C#. More than 1 year with Golang is a plus

• 4+ years of experience in the tech industry (software engineering, platform, or/and DevOps), or equivalent education (Master)

• Experience working in early-stage startups, creating and/or contributing to open-source projects or founding a company is a strong plus

• You have experience implementing software that utilized at least one major cloud provider — AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform

• You are familiar with the concept of IaC and ideally have worked with an IaC tool — OpenTofu/Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation

• Excellent communication skills

How we work

• Move fast. Continuous deployments every day

• Deliver features in iterations with a tracer-bullet approach. Everything is an experiment

• Work closely as a team, having transparent communication, and caring about our system, ourselves, and customers

• Cultivate space for small and big innovations from hackathons to smaller, ad-hoc experiments

• Use the best dev tools that we can get our hands on - from any IDE of your choice to cutting-edge AI tooling like Claude Code.

Why Spacelift?

• Innovative Culture: Join a team shaping the future of cloud infrastructure management.
• Growth Opportunities: Be a key player in driving Spacelift’s business and AWS partnership to new heights.
• Work-Life Balance: Flexible work environment, with remote-first options and competitive compensation packages.
• Collaborative Team: Work with passionate, talented people committed to driving success for our customers and partners.

What we offer

• The expected B2B compensation ranges from $80,000 to $110,000 annually, with the possibility of going higher for exceptional candidates

• Equity package

• 26 days of paid time off annually

• Learning & education budget

• Option to work from anywhere within European timezones (CET +/- 2h)

Hiring Process

• 30-minute with our Talent Acquisition Manager

• 30-minute introductory video call with one of our Team Leads or Head of Engineering

• Take-home exercise

• Live coding interview with two engineers

• 45 minutes behaviour/technical interview with Marcin (Spacelift tech cofounder)

• Reference check

Our values

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

Join Us! Building tools is a fantastic adventure, it is demanding, but also fun and rewarding experience. We shape the future of DevOps, Platform, software engineering in general. We have to keep sharpening our skills, testing new approaches, and learning. Looking forward to meeting you!