Platform Engineer

A World-Changing Company Meticulous is radically accelerating the pace of software development. We've built the world's first fully autonomous and exhaustive testing platform for frontend codebases - a capability that has never existed before and that we believe is the missing piece in unlocking the full potential of code generation. The demand has been immense. Companies like Dropbox, Wiz, and Notion often pay more for Meticulous than any other software product in their stack, and spontaneously refer us to others. Our team of eleven has achieved this by bringing together some of the most talented engineers from Uber, Google, Dropbox, GitHub, Meta, and Palantir.

The Role

The First Platform Engineer Meticulous replays thousands of recorded user sessions against every pull request. This requires infrastructure that is fast, reliable, and cost-efficient at scale. As a Platform Engineer, you'll own the systems that make this possible. You'll design and build resilient infrastructure to support 10x growth, operate it in production, and shape our incident processes for when things break. This is not a maintenance role, you'll define how we build and operate as we scale. You'll have significant autonomy. We're a small team, and you'll be the first dedicated platform engineer. That means you'll make real architectural decisions, not just execute on someone else's design.

Core Responsibilities

• Architecting Resilient Infrastructure: Design, build, and scale the compute platform that powers Meticulous, managing our cloud infrastructure through Terraform with proper change management. Optimise infrastructure costs, balancing performance and spend as we scale.
• Own Production Reliability: Improve our monitoring, alerting, incident response, and on-call rotation to ensure that when systems encounter problems, we’re able to respond quickly and effectively to resolve incidents.
• Write Production Code Beyond Infrastructure: This role blends platform engineering with general software development work.
• Improve Developer Experience: Build internal tooling and automation that improves developer productivity and allows us to accelerate growth.
• Build the playbook: As our first platform engineer, you’ll establish infrastructure standards and practices for a growing engineering team, maintaining security and compliance standards across our infrastructure.

What We're Looking For

• Exceptional engineering skills: 3+ years of experience in a software development or platform engineering role.
• Infrastructure expertise: Experience operating production systems on AWS (or other cloud provider), hands-on with Kubernetes, and enough Terraform to have opinions about how to structure it.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar).
• Strong technical foundation: Demonstrated ability to write production-quality code and solve hard technical problems (experience with Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, systems programming, or browser internals is valuable).
• On-call experience: you know how to triage issues under pressure, drive them to resolution, and write the postmortem afterward. You understand that reliability is built through good design, not just good monitoring.
• Awareness of security best practices and compliance requirements (SOC 2 or similar).
• Cost consciousness: not just making things work, but making them work economically at scale. You've rightsized compute, managed Spot instances, or made similar trade-offs.
• High drive and bias for action: you thrive with minimal supervision, make decisions quickly, and take ownership of outcomes. When you see a problem, you fix it. This role demands entrepreneurial self-drive and comfort with ambiguity.

What You'll Gain

• Shape a new function: As the first Platform Engineer, you'll define how this role evolves and grow into leadership as the team expands.
• Exceptional growth: You grow through a combination of the people you work with, and the experiences you’re exposed to.
• Expand your network: Our investors include Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Jason Warner (CTO of GitHub), Calvin French-Owen (Segment), Jared Friedman (YC/Scribd), Scott Belsky (Adobe), and Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox) - we can connect you with anyone in tech in the course to expanding the business.
• Solve novel problems: Work on challenges at the intersection of browser technology, testing infrastructure, and large-scale system design that few engineers ever encounter - to help build something that changes the way software is developed.

World-class compensation

Base salary £150K-£300K plus significant equity, exceeding compensation at top technology companies and startups.

Life at Meticulous

We believe autonomous testing will enable the automation of the majority of software development. You'll be at the forefront of this transformation, working with the companies that will be first to realize this future. This role is on-site because we've found that the speed of iteration and depth of collaboration required for both customer success and technical excellence happens best in person.