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Platform Engineer (x/f/m) - Tech Foundations

Alan - Remote - Hybrid - posted 2026-09-10

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Alan is a prevention-focused health insurance company serving 1M+ members across 40K+ companies, with €800M+ ARR. The Tech Foundations area enables product teams through world-class infrastructure, developer experience, operational excellence, and security. The Infra crew within Tech Foundations is hiring a Platform Engineer to operate and evolve the foundations Alan runs on. You'll own multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), data platforms (PostgreSQL, events pipeline, async workloads), reliability and observability (Datadog, incident management), governance/compliance/FinOps, and AI-augmented infrastructure operations. Key responsibilities include: - Design and implement robust infrastructure systems with focus on reliability and observability - Own and evolve cloud footprint, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Terramate), and architectural decisions for international expansion - Operate and evolve data platforms and application foundations that product teams build on - Own platform uptime and latency SLOs end-to-end; evolve observability stack and incident response processes - Manage cross-cutting concerns: infrastructure cost (FinOps), IAM posture, backup/disaster recovery - Integrate AI assistants into incident investigation, runbook execution, and toil reduction 2026 focus areas: multi-cloud expansion for international growth, service architecture decoupling to scale from 1M to 10M members, operational excellence improvements, and AI-augmented infrastructure operations. The role is hands-on: you write code (Python, TypeScript, Terraform) for automation and tooling, ship to production, operate it (rollouts, alerting, on-call, incident response). You measure impact by how fast product teams ship without consulting you. You build reusable patterns, guardrails, and reliable-by-default abstractions. Tech stack: Python/Flask, TypeScript, React, React Native; AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, Terraform/Terramate, Datadog, Cloudflare, GitHub Actions; monorepo with daily deployments and distributed ownership. Requirements: - 3+ years in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or equivalent - Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP preferred) - Comfortable writing code for automation and tooling (Python/TypeScript experience helpful but not required) - Experience with observability, monitoring, alerting, or incident management tools and practices - Ability to design and implement robust infrastructure systems with focus on reliability and observability - Experience maintaining uptime targets while optimizing infrastructure costs - Track record building and maintaining internal or external tooling (APIs, CLIs, configuration-as-code, etc.) - Fluent in English (French not required) - Must be legally eligible to work in France, Belgium, or Spain - Aiming to hire at C1 level or above per Alan's engineering career path, but high potential and curiosity valued above checklist completion

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