Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

Blip is a leading tech company focused on software engineering solutions for sports entertainment. 

We operate at scale. As part of Flutter Entertainment, we play an essential role in the Group's goal of becoming the global leader in online sports betting and iGaming, developing innovative products and platforms for over 14 million monthly customers worldwide. 

We are serious about Tech. We are problem-solvers with big ambitions, keeping a people-first mindset at the core of our work. We prioritise flexibility as we strive to deliver the best technological products and tackle the greatest industry challenges. 

Recognising that everyone brings their own strengths, backgrounds and new perspectives, we empower you to be yourself. That uniqueness shapes the culture of belonging we are so proud of.

The Role
 

 As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, building, and scaling the infrastructure and internal tooling that powers our engineering teams. You’ll focus on delivering secure, scalable, and developer-friendly platform capabilities that accelerate product delivery while improving operational efficiency and resilience.

 In this hands-on role, you’ll work closely with engineers and cross-functional teams to evolve our core platform - contributing to areas such as deployment workflows, observability, data services, and networking. You will be a strong individual contributor who also mentors others and champions best practices across the team. Your work will enable autonomy, consistency, and security across the engineering organization.

 

 

What You’ll Be Doing

• Contribute on the design design and implementing platform features that improve scalability, security, and reliability across our systems.
• Building reusable, self-service components that abstract complexity and improve developer productivity.
• Writing high-quality, maintainable code and applying infrastructure-as-code principles for repeatable, auditable changes.
• Partnering with product, security, and operations teams to align on requirements and ensure solutions meet evolving business and technical needs.
• Supporting incident response and contributing to post-incident reviews and platform reliability improvements.
• Driving adoption of best practices in automation, observability, and secure-by-default infrastructure design.
• Mentoring junior engineers and contributing to a culture of learning, collaboration, and technical excellence.

What You’ll Bring

• Significant hands-on experience in platform engineering, SRE, infrastructure, or DevOps roles.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure (AWS), containerization, IaC (e.g. Terraform) and configuration management (e.g. Ansible).
• Background in system design, distributed systems, and software engineering principles.
• Experience building internal platform capabilities such as deployment systems, monitoring/observability tooling, or infrastructure automation.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD principles, pipeline design, and operational best practices.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate complexity and make sound technical decisions.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work across teams and disciplines.
• A mindset of ownership and continuous improvement, with a passion for creating scalable and developer-friendly systems.

A Sneak Peek Into Our Tech Stack

• AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Vault, Datadog and PagerDuty

This is what you should have. What do we have, you ask? Well...you can check our amazing perks & benefits  right  here !  

So ... Are you in?
 

Equal opportunities

At Blip, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds,   ways of thinking, and working to apply.
We are committed to including everyone   regardless of their race, disability, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, and religion. 
Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you don’t have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role.

If you need any adjustments to apply for the position and to ensure this role aligns with your needs, please send an email to accommodations@blip.pt .

We will only respond to inquiries related to disabilities.