Senior Platform Engineer

Overview ID5 is a global leader in digital identity solutions for the advertising technology industry. We partner with premium publishers, platforms, and advertisers worldwide. Our mission is to enhance addressability across digital environments, while providing best-in-class solutions for data protection and identification. ID5 operates as a remote-first company with a commitment to innovation, inclusion, and global collaboration.

Role Overview As a Senior Platform Engineer at ID5, you will play a key role in building and evolving the core platform that underpins our identity services. You will work across cloud and bare-metal environments to ensure our systems are stable, reliable, scalable, and observable. Partnering closely with product and data teams, you will help define and implement best practices, design fault-tolerant infrastructure, and develop automation and tooling that empower teams across the business. This role is ideal for an engineer who thrives in agile, data-centric environments and wants to make a direct impact on the future of digital advertising addressability.

Key Responsibilities Own and evolve ID5’s platform, ensuring stability, reliability, scalability, and observability across services.

Participate in technical design discussions and contribute platform expertise to architectural decisions.

Participate in the on-call rotation to support critical production systems.

Help define and champion platform engineering best practices, principles, and standards.

Build and improve platform observability with a focus on actionable, predictive metrics.

Design and deliver fault-tolerant, highly scalable, and highly available systems.

Develop self-service tooling and automation to empower product and data teams.

Perform maintenance and lifecycle management of applications and infrastructure, including defining processes for upgrades, patching, and troubleshooting.

Required Qualifications Several years of experience building and operating platforms that support SaaS, DaaS, or ML workloads in large-scale production environments.

Deep understanding of platform engineering and DevOps principles, with practical experience supporting data-centric workloads.

Experience working across both bare-metal and Cloud environments.

Skilled in designing and operating distributed data platforms such as Spark, Kafka, Cassandra, or Elasticsearch.

Familiarity with modern data practices such as data lakes, data warehousing, and large-scale batch / streaming pipelines.

Comfortable writing automation and platform tooling (Python, Bash, Go, etc.), including scripts and services to support data engineering workflows.

Experience with CI / CD and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, etc.).

Comfortable working in a small, highly agile, and fully remote team.

What we offer to our talent A competitive compensation package, including stock options in ID5

WeWork membership and option to work from different WeWork locations

Regular offsites to enjoy face-to-face time and to bond further with your colleagues

A dynamic environment that offers room for growth and development to all employees

A friendly, international, and multicultural team

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are passionate about creating an inclusive environment in which all employees can thrive

More about ID5 Launched in September 2017, ID5 currently employs 60 people and works with premium publishers, ad tech platforms, and advertisers globally. Built to improve addressability across all digital advertising environments, ID5 has rapidly established itself as the most adopted identity solution in the market, prevailing over larger and more established companies thanks to its unique position and focus on providing the best identification and data protection technology.

The company is backed by financial and strategic industry investors who believe in ID5’s vision and plan. This investment has allowed ID5 to expand the business, increase its footprint globally, and hire the best talent to support its ambitious growth plans.

Recognized as one of the most outstanding employers by Digiday’s WorkLife Awards 2023, ID5 is a remote-first company, allowing employees to work from different locations and time zones indefinitely. We equip our team with all the tools needed to perform their work remotely, and we ensure people bond and stay connected thanks to regular all-hands meetings, communication tools such as Slack and Zoom, and by organizing regular offsites around the world. We also offer WeWork membership for those who prefer not to work from home, and allow individuals to move across different WeWork locations.

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