Software Developer, DevEx (Deploy & Run)

<p>Ilir Sela started Slice with the belief that local pizzerias deserve all of the advantages of major franchises without compromising their independence. Starting with his family’s pizzerias, we now empower over tens of thousands of restaurants with the technology, services, and collective power that owners need to better serve their digitally minded customers and build lasting businesses. We’re growing and adding more talent to help fulfil this valuable mission. That’s where you come in.</p> <p>This position is open to applicants across all of the UK, Canada and North Macedonia on a remote basis, with the physical office located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.</p> <p><strong>What You'll Do</strong></p> <p>As a <strong>Platform Engineer</strong> on the<strong> DevEx Deploy & Run</strong> team, you'll build and evolve the platform that powers engineering across Slice. You'll work closely with product engineering teams to improve developer experience while raising the bar for reliability, security, and operational excellence.</p> <p>You will:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Build and maintain our Internal Developer Platform</strong>, making it easier for engineers to deploy, operate, and troubleshoot their services.</li> <li><strong>Create self-service tooling and automation</strong> that eliminate repetitive work and reduce operational overhead.</li> <li><strong>Design and implement GitOps workflows using ArgoCD</strong> to provide safe, repeatable, and scalable application delivery.</li> <li><strong>Improve our Kubernetes platform</strong> by developing reusable patterns, templates, and guardrails that make the right thing the easy thing.</li> <li><strong>Build internal applications and developer tooling in Python</strong> that simplify infrastructure management and operational workflows.</li> <li><strong>Enhance CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions</strong>, improving deployment speed, consistency, and developer productivity.</li> <li><strong>Use generative AI </strong>to help build and maintain internal services, including agentic services</li> <li><strong>Improve observability by leveraging Datadog </strong>dashboards, metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting to help teams operate confidently in production.</li> <li><strong>Partner with product engineering</strong> teams to understand pain points and continuously improve the developer experience.</li> <li><strong>Reduce cognitive load for engineers </strong>by standardizing workflows, automating infrastructure operations, and providing well-documented platform capabilities.</li> <li><strong>Champion engineering best practices</strong> around reliability, security, automation, and platform adoption.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Our Technology</strong></p> <p>Our platform is constantly evolving, but some of the technologies you'll work with include:</p> <ul> <li>Kubernetes</li> <li>ArgoCD & GitOps</li> <li>Python</li> <li>GitHub & GitHub Actions</li> <li>Datadog</li> <li>AWS</li> <li>Generative AI (Claude Code & AI Agents)</li> <li>Terraform</li> <li>Docker</li> </ul> <p>More important than experience with every individual tool is a passion for building platforms that make other engineers more productive.</p> <p><strong>Who You Are</strong></p> <p>We're looking for engineers who enjoy building platforms rather than products—people who love automation, reducing complexity, and enabling others to move faster.</p> <