Top Benefits
About the role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in infrastructure or platform engineering roles
- Deep expertise with Kubernetes, Helm, and infrastructure-as-code tooling like Terraform
- Strong software engineering skills, ideally in Go or Python
- Experience building CI/CD systems and improving developer workflows
- Clear understanding of cloud networking, service mesh, and zero-trust design patterns
- Hands-on experience with observability tools and setting SLOs (e.g., Datadog)
- Ability to lead architectural design and cross-team technical projects
- Track record of mentoring senior engineers and influencing infrastructure maturity
- Experience implementing and maintaining compliance controls in a cloud-native environment
- Contributions to an open-source platform or SRE tooling
- Experience building shared internal developer platforms as products
- Expertise in managing multi-account AWS environments with security boundaries
- Proactive documentation, teaching, and platform evangelism practices
- Comfort working in a startup or fast-paced environments
- Experience working on breaking down Monoliths
What the job involves
- As a Staff Platform Engineer, you’ll lead foundational work that enables every engineering team at Bolt to ship fast, securely, and reliably
- You’ll architect cloud-native infrastructure. You’ll improve developer experience and reliability. You’ll collaborate across product, security, compliance, and infrastructure to ensure our platform scales with the business
- You’ll treat infrastructure like a product and internal developers like customers. You’ll model excellence while mentoring senior engineers and influencing system-wide standards
- Please note, this is a contract-to-hire opportunity with the option to convert to full-time after 3–6 months
- Designing and evolving Bolt’s Kubernetes-based platform and GitOps infrastructure
- Driving developer experience improvements across CI/CD, secrets management, and observability
- Implementing scalable, secure systems for networking, identity, and service-to-service communication
- Building shared platform tooling that is resilient and easy to adopt
- Supporting critical compliance efforts including PCI-DSS and SOC2
- Partnering with SDEs to improve incident response, SLOs, and reliability metrics
- Collaborating cross-functionally to accelerate product velocity and reduce cognitive load
- Mentoring other engineers on infrastructure design, reliability, and security best practices
- Leading cross-org platform initiatives with clear communication and ownership
- Documenting, sharing, and evangelizing platform standards and practices
The application process
- Please download and explore the Bolt Super App prior to interview—our consumer experience is at the heart of everything we build!
Benefits
- Four-Day Workweek, flexible working hours, & unlimited PTO time to promote a healthy work-life balance
- 100% paid coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees
- Remote First location policy to allow team members to live where they choose
- Work from home stipend to help you succeed in a remote environment
- Early Exercise program to help Bolters maximize the value of their equity
- 401K program to help you invest in your future
- Learning & Development stipend to grow your skills
- Paid parental leave to support you and your family
- 11 paid company holidays per year, 5 additional floating holidays, & your birthday off
About Bolt
At Bolt, we're building a future where people don’t need to own personal cars to move around safely and conveniently. A future where people have the freedom to use transport on demand, choosing whatever vehicle's best for each occasion — be it a car, scooter, or e-bike.
We're helping over 200 million customers move around in more than 600 cities globally while also supporting more than 4.5 million drivers and couriers to earn a living. The best bit? We're only just getting started.
Read more at bolt.eu
Top Benefits
About the role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in infrastructure or platform engineering roles
- Deep expertise with Kubernetes, Helm, and infrastructure-as-code tooling like Terraform
- Strong software engineering skills, ideally in Go or Python
- Experience building CI/CD systems and improving developer workflows
- Clear understanding of cloud networking, service mesh, and zero-trust design patterns
- Hands-on experience with observability tools and setting SLOs (e.g., Datadog)
- Ability to lead architectural design and cross-team technical projects
- Track record of mentoring senior engineers and influencing infrastructure maturity
- Experience implementing and maintaining compliance controls in a cloud-native environment
- Contributions to an open-source platform or SRE tooling
- Experience building shared internal developer platforms as products
- Expertise in managing multi-account AWS environments with security boundaries
- Proactive documentation, teaching, and platform evangelism practices
- Comfort working in a startup or fast-paced environments
- Experience working on breaking down Monoliths
What the job involves
- As a Staff Platform Engineer, you’ll lead foundational work that enables every engineering team at Bolt to ship fast, securely, and reliably
- You’ll architect cloud-native infrastructure. You’ll improve developer experience and reliability. You’ll collaborate across product, security, compliance, and infrastructure to ensure our platform scales with the business
- You’ll treat infrastructure like a product and internal developers like customers. You’ll model excellence while mentoring senior engineers and influencing system-wide standards
- Please note, this is a contract-to-hire opportunity with the option to convert to full-time after 3–6 months
- Designing and evolving Bolt’s Kubernetes-based platform and GitOps infrastructure
- Driving developer experience improvements across CI/CD, secrets management, and observability
- Implementing scalable, secure systems for networking, identity, and service-to-service communication
- Building shared platform tooling that is resilient and easy to adopt
- Supporting critical compliance efforts including PCI-DSS and SOC2
- Partnering with SDEs to improve incident response, SLOs, and reliability metrics
- Collaborating cross-functionally to accelerate product velocity and reduce cognitive load
- Mentoring other engineers on infrastructure design, reliability, and security best practices
- Leading cross-org platform initiatives with clear communication and ownership
- Documenting, sharing, and evangelizing platform standards and practices
The application process
- Please download and explore the Bolt Super App prior to interview—our consumer experience is at the heart of everything we build!
Benefits
- Four-Day Workweek, flexible working hours, & unlimited PTO time to promote a healthy work-life balance
- 100% paid coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees
- Remote First location policy to allow team members to live where they choose
- Work from home stipend to help you succeed in a remote environment
- Early Exercise program to help Bolters maximize the value of their equity
- 401K program to help you invest in your future
- Learning & Development stipend to grow your skills
- Paid parental leave to support you and your family
- 11 paid company holidays per year, 5 additional floating holidays, & your birthday off
About Bolt
At Bolt, we're building a future where people don’t need to own personal cars to move around safely and conveniently. A future where people have the freedom to use transport on demand, choosing whatever vehicle's best for each occasion — be it a car, scooter, or e-bike.
We're helping over 200 million customers move around in more than 600 cities globally while also supporting more than 4.5 million drivers and couriers to earn a living. The best bit? We're only just getting started.
Read more at bolt.eu