Senior Platform Engineer (Infrastructure & Security)

Swarmia was founded to help engineering organizations ship exceptional software at a sustainable pace. As Swarmia engineers, we’re not only building a platform for our customers but also ourselves.

We raised €10M in Series A funding in June 2025 and are growing fast. To help scale and expand the product, we’re looking for several Senior Software Engineers who are both generalists and specialists: you know a little about everything and a lot about something.

About Swarmia

Swarmia is a SaaS product that gives engineering organizations the visibility they need to ship faster without compromising culture or quality. Our customers include some of the world’s best software companies, such as Miro, Webflow, Superhuman, and Lovable.

We’re a team of experienced engineers who care deeply about our craft. We practice what we preach: we use Swarmia to build Swarmia, and we’ve figured out how to ship fast while keeping technical debt low and our work-life balance healthy.

About the role and how we work

You will be the first person at Swarmia fully dedicated to infrastructure and security. Until now, this work has been distributed across our Head of Engineering and our platform team. We have reached 99.9% uptime every year since founding, built on Google Cloud and managed with Terraform - and we want to keep it that way as we scale.

This is a high-ownership role. You will report directly to our Head of Engineering and work closely with Platform Team, and other product development teams. You will not only maintain what we have - you will improve it systematically, drive down costs, and raise our security posture.

We use AI-assisted development actively across the engineering team. We expect this to lower the bar for contributing code alongside infrastructure work, and we will support you in developing that skill from day one.

Examples of things you’ll do

• Own our Google Cloud infrastructure: GKE clusters, Cloud SQL, PubSub, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, and the services that run on top of them

• Lead our logging infrastructure rebuild — moving from a high-cost, high-convenience setup toward a tiered architecture that balances cost and debuggability

• Drive infra cost optimization as an ongoing owned responsibility, not a one-time project

• Manage and improve our CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) and deployment automation

• Own our observability stack: Prometheus, Grafana, alerting, SLOs

• Review our security posture in Google Security Command Center, implement improvements, and own our response to security audits and customer security reviews

• Configure and maintain IAM, GCP Secret Manager, VPC firewall rules, Kubernetes network policies, and namespace isolation across our private GKE cluster

• Design and practice disaster recovery procedures

• Automate away operational toil - if something happens more than twice, it should not happen manually a third time

• Write documentation and playbooks; we prefer collaborative problem-solving over working in silos

What we are looking for

Must have

• 5+ years of experience as an infrastructure, platform, or DevOps engineer in a production environment

• Solid experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or equivalent)

• Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes and container orchestration

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code, preferably Terraform

• Proficiency in Python and Bash for automation and scripting

• Hands-on experience with GCP or a comparable cloud platform

• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana or equivalent)

• Cloud security fundamentals: IAM, least-privilege access, GCP Secret Manager, audit logging, network controls, private cluster configuration

• Strong written and verbal communication — you will work across teams and document what you build

Nice to have

• Experience with compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001

• Familiarity with TypeScript or Node.js for application-level contributions

• Experience with PostgreSQL administration and performance tuning

• Background in security audits or customer-facing security reviews

Why you should join

The product: You’ll get to work on a domain that’s relevant and interesting to software engineers. Unlike many other tools in this space, Swarmia is not a tool for stack ranking individual engineers or just a dashboard for the leadership — instead, we serve useful insights and tools for the whole engineering organization. As an engineer, this means you deeply understand the problem space.

The developer experience: Since our product is about sensible software development, we take our own practices seriously. We’re deliberate about how we work, but processes aren’t heavier than they need to be. As one of our engineers described it after his first few weeks at Swarmia: “It feels like a bunch of adults came together and spent some serious time to figure out how to do this software thing well.”

The people: You’ll get very experienced colleagues with wide skillsets and different backgrounds. We pride ourselves in hiring and retaining smart, kind, and helpful people who are guaranteed to both teach you something and learn something from you.

The communication: The psychological safety here is real — people voice their concerns without fear, and we’re fast to try new things and scrap them if they don’t work. We’re deeply invested in the product and can have disagreements, but when we do, it’s always in a professional and empathetic manner. Low hierarchy in practice. No blame culture.

The transparency: We believe in total transparency across departments and leadership. You’ll get full access to all business metrics, leadership team meeting notes, and board meeting memos. We all contribute to this by having our conversations on public Slack channels, openly sharing meeting notes, and collaborating on request for comments (RFC) docs before implementing any bigger changes.

The balance: We’re a startup with the maturity of a more established company. Things just work, but your initiative matters a lot. We maintain a great work-life balance, don’t do any crunching, and keep up a sustainable pace without compromising quality.

Tech stack

Google Cloud (GKE, PubSub, Cloud SQL, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Secret Manager), Terraform, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, PostgreSQL, Redis. Application layer in strict-mode TypeScript with Node.js backend and React frontend. Message-driven service architecture with multiple consumers processing data from GitHub, Jira, Linear, and other integrations.

Interview process

We want to see how you work, not test your ability to solve puzzles under pressure. The process includes:

1. Intro call with the recruiter — learn more about you and share more about Swarmia

2. Hiring manager call — deep dive into your infrastructure and security experience with our Head of Engineering

3. Technical interview — a conversation with Swarmia engineers covering the infrastructure, security, and operational domains relevant to the role. No live coding or take-home assignments

4. Leadership interview — a short discussion with our CEO and Head of Engineering to assess mutual fit

We will prep you for each round and provide feedback regardless of outcome. We aim to respond within 1 to 2 days. Each stage is as much a chance for you to learn about us as it is for us to learn about you.

Your first few months at Swarmia

Your dev environment sets up with a single script. You’ll push your first change on day one. Over your first 90 days, you’ll ship increasingly complex features - from simple updates to prominent features.

You’ll get a designated onboarding buddy from your team, plus the whole team running training sessions on our culture, product, and technical architecture. You’ll have regular 1:1s with your team lead to calibrate and give feedback.

Benefits

• 70-90k€ annual salary plus meaningful equity.

• Paid annual vacation with 10 extra days for new employees.

• Flexible remote/office balance — our whole Product & Engineering organization is based in Finland. We value meeting teammates in person, but you don’t have to come to the Helsinki office every day.

• Great work-life balance — we’re a startup, but we don’t work at an unsustainable pace (many of us have kids and other responsibilities beyond work).

Swarmia provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We’re committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.