Senior Platform Engineer (Infrastructure - Developer Experience & Enablement Platform)
Summary
The Senior Platform Engineer will join the Developer Experience & Enablement Platform team to design and build infrastructure, tooling, and golden paths for over 100 applications. This role involves working across the stack to improve developer productivity and platform reliability within a large-scale retail environment.
We’re looking for a passionate and experienced Senior Platform Engineer to join our Developer Experience & Enablement Platform (DEEP) team. Within this team, we provide a trusted engineering foundation through reliable platform infrastructure, opinionated libraries and tooling, and clear golden paths.
In this role, you'll design and build new intelligent capabilities of the platform that serves around 100 applications.
This is a high-impact position where you’ll work holistically across the stack, dive into complex technical challenges, and help shape the future of Tesco’s technical landscape.
Tesco is a diverse and exciting employer, dedicated to being #aplacetogeton, providing career-defining opportunities to all of our colleagues. If you choose to join our business, we will provide you with (for all):
- Up to 20% yearly salary bonus – based on both individual and business performance
- Permanent contract from the go – as a sign of our trust in your abilities
- Tax deductible expenses (IP)
- Private healthcare (LuxMed)
- Cafeteria & Multisport
- Additional 4 days of paid leave to support your well-being and family life
- Increase in annual leave (from 20 to 25 days) to those not yet eligible for the full holiday entitlement
- Learning opportunities - certified technical training and learning platforms like Udemy
- Back-to-school day – 1 day off for parents of primary school children
- Fertility leave – up to 2 weeks of paid leave for IVF treatment
- Sports activities with a personal trainer in the office
- Referral Bonus
- MacBook as your tool for work
If that sounds exciting, then we'd love to hear from you!
Tesco is committed to celebrating diversity and everyone is welcome at Tesco. As a Disability Confident Employer, we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process, allowing candidates the opportunity to thrive and inform us of any reasonable adjustments they may require
- We develop our own products
- We make an impact; large scale of operation
- Accountability and respect are given to us
- We cooperate and support each other
- There are great colleagues who are divided into small teams here
- We can develop and learn new things
- 8+ years of experience building and shipping production-grade infrastructure and/or applications.
- Deep understanding of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP), infrastructure-as-code and networking fundamentals (DNS, TLS, ingress).
- Strong expertise in system design and full-stack development.
- Experience with Agile methodologies and cross-functional collaboration.
- Proven ability to own projects end-to-end, from concept to production.
- Excellent communication skills in English, with the ability to explain complex topics clearly.
- Experience mentoring engineers and fostering technical growth within teams.
- A holistic mindset — you care about reliability, performance, developer experience, and long-term impact.
- A proactive, self-driven attitude with a focus on delivering meaningful value.