PlanBlue is on a mission to harness the critical role of the seafloor in addressing global challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and food insecurity. Its cutting-edge technology integrates advanced imaging with AI-driven data processing, delivering automated seafloor intelligence that uncovers the seafloor’s true ecological and economic value at scale and at speed. Over the last seven years, we have built a dynamic, diverse team of engineers, business developers, data scientists, and marine experts, bringing together a mix of skills and expertise necessary to achieve our mission.

What you'll be doing  

We’re looking for a hands-on Platform Engineer to help design, build, and maintain our cloud infrastructure and developer tooling. This is a mid-level position ideal for someone with a minimum of 4–6 years of professional experience who wants to grow into larger architectural responsibilities while making a direct impact on our engineering team. 

Technical / Cloud Architecture 

• Planning, implementing and maintaining Cloud Infrastructure. 

• Identifying, evaluation and implementing key technologies for our needs: 

-AWS Services, 

-Cloud compatible geo-spatial data structures, 

-Data processing pipelines, 

-Cloud deployment automation, 

-On premise deployment automation, 

-Edge device deployment automation. 

• Increase readability and understandability of data processing pipelines and web services through refactoring or rewriting of their code base. 

Tooling & Automation

• Build Python tooling, conventions and libraries. 

• Streamlining development of new services. 

• Provide a continuous delivery system that deploys code changes fast, reliable and without manual intervention. 

• Minimize manual pipeline oversight (e.g. I/O validation). 

• Ensure that infrastructure monitoring and alerting is proactive and actionable. 

Team Support & collaboration

• Adhering to best practices (continuous development, automated deployment, automated testing, clean code & software design) across all software development. 

• Support and guide the team by sharing knowledge, providing tools, and assisting colleagues in troubleshooting, triaging, and resolving issues efficiently.

What you will bring

• 2-4 years of professional experience in cloud/DevOps roles

• Strong knowledge of core AWS services (permissions, serverless, networking, microservices). [

• Terraform or similar IaC expertise.[

• Proficient in modern Python stack (fully typed, asyncio, data classes, uv, pydantic, fastapi...). 

• Experience with containerization (e.g. Docker)

• Familiarity with NoSQL databases and ODMs 

• Proactive mindset with the ability to suggest and implement improvements. 

• Fluency in English is mandatory

Bonus If You Bring

• Knowledge in Airflow

• Contribution to optimise the scrum process. 

What we offer

• Competitive salary between €65k–80k, depending on experience and skills.  

• Opportunity to grow into senior/architect responsibilities over time.  

• Collaborative, innovative work environment with a focus on learning and mentorship.  

• 28 days of annual leave. 

• A bright, welcoming office near an awesome park, with free organic coffee, drinks, and fruits. 

• Free diving courses and access to fitness, yoga, and sports studios. 

• Professional growth through coaching, workshops, conferences, and international research projects. 

• Flexible working hours to support a healthy work-life balance. 

• An opportunity to scale a mission-driven, impact-oriented company. 

• A diverse, international team that values collaboration and openness.