Senior Infrastructure engineer

Amsterdam | 80k - 100k | Permanent

There’s a lot to like about this one.

Small, very good engineering team. Cybersecurity product. Infrastructure operating at genuine internet scale. And importantly, plenty still to build.

They’re looking for another senior engineer who can come in, understand what’s there, challenge things when needed and actually have some influence over what the platform becomes.

That’s probably the bit I like most about it.

Technically, Kubernetes is the big one. Not just having deployed something into it, but being comfortable owning it in production and understanding what’s happening underneath.

Alongside that: AWS, Terraform (with some OpenTofu creeping in), Docker/containers and CI/CD. GitLab CI, Jenkins and Ansible are all in the mix.

Kafka, KNative, event-driven infrastructure, a proper SRE background, AWS/K8s certs — all useful, none dealbreakers.

I’m not looking for someone who matches 14/14 keywords.

I’d rather find an engineer who can look at a platform, understand why it’s been built that way, spot what could be better and have a sensible opinion on what comes next.

A few other bits I genuinely like:

• €80–100k + ~€20k stock options
• Indefinite contract from day one
• Unlimited holiday — people actually use it, averaging around 26 days
• Hybrid, loosely two days in Amsterdam. Nobody standing there with a clipboard
• Work abroad for up to six months while maintaining Dutch tax residency
• People stay. Four-plus years isn’t unusual
• And mercifully, one technical interview rather than six rounds and a weekend assignment

Intro with Talent manager, then Hiring manager, then usually anonsite, meet the team, grab some lunch, talk tech and work out whether you actually like each other.

If you’re strong across Infrastructure / Platform / SRE and want somewhere you’ll actually get some ownership, give me a shout.