Senior Software Engineer
at Anaplan
Manchester, United Kingdom
At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.
What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers’ success and to our Winning Culture.
Our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies who rely on our best-in-class platform.
Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals, and we love celebrating our wins – big and small.
Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, values-based and disciplined in execution, you’ll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and let’s build what’s next - together!
At Anaplan, we are looking for a strong Senior Platform Engineer to join our team.
Are you a creative problem solver who can both give and receive feedback? Do you lead with inclusion, collaboration, and openness? Do you have strong experience with high-scale B2B and B2C platforms?
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you'll be crafting and helping build the next generation of the Anaplan Platform. You’re comfortable with both full-stack systems design for the hybrid cloud as well as hands-on distributed systems programming with extensive knowledge of Java, JVM, Rust, Linux internals and container orchestration.
The Role
We're looking for experienced engineers who've built real products at scale and apply that same rigor to platform engineering. You'll engineer new platforms as products, not just operate existing infrastructure. You understand user experience, reliability, and technical debt from shipping production systems. You'll design platforms that are extensible, observable, and maintainable, enabling internal teams to build on top of them while handling the complexity underneath.
Your Impact
Kubernetes Engineering & Automation
You don't just write Helm charts or YAML manifests; you extend the Kubernetes API.
- Custom Operators: Proven ability to write Kubernetes Operators (using Kubebuilder or Operator SDK) to manage complex, stateful application lifecycles.
- Control Plane Logic: Deep understanding of reconciliation loops, custom resource definitions (CRDs), and how to automate operational knowledge into code
Scalable Microservices & Distributed Systems
You build for high concurrency, low latency, and eventual consistency.
- High-Scale SaaS: 10+ years of experience building and operating production-grade SaaS products. You have first-hand experience with the "death by a thousand cuts" that
comes with scaling to millions of requests. - Systems Programming: Advanced proficiency in Go, Rust, or JVM-based languages, with a focus on writing memory-efficient and thread-safe code.
Deep-Tier Cloud Storage & Persistence
You understand the physics of data.
- Storage Internals: We need more than S3 API knowledge. You should understand the performance characteristics, limitations, and cost-drivers of S3, NFS, and enterprise
storage like NetApp OnTap or AWS FSx. - Data Locality: Experience managing data persistence across hybrid environments (Public Cloud vs. Private DC).
Operational Maturity (The "SRE" DNA)
You believe that "if it isn't monitored, it doesn't exist."
- Instrumentation: Expert-level experience with OpenTelemetry. You don't just look at metrics; you design the telemetry that allows for deep-dive distributed tracing and root-cause analysis.
- Observability Infrastructure: Hands-on experience scaling Prometheus and Grafana to
handle high-cardinality data.
Your Skills
· BS degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience as a professional Platform Engineer.
· Substantial experience in Java, RUST programming experience
· Proven experience in building and operating a SaaS product at scale.
· Proven cloud experience using observability and operating workloads in Kubernetes.
· Experience with cloud storage S3, NFS, NetApp OnTap, AWS FSX
· Distributed Systems and programming techniques.
· Monitoring and metrics infrastructure (OTEL, Prometheus, Grafana).
· Cloud (AWS / GCP/ Azure / Private DC).
· Bonus: Experience with AI/ML, Natural Language
Technologies you’ll work with:
· Programming languages: GoLang, Java11, Kotlin, Rust, Python
· Storage & Persistence: S3, NFS
· Container and Orchestration: Kubernetes/Containers (Docker)/Rancher RKE
· Cloud providers: AWS, GCP, Azure, Private Data Centers
· Observability/Telemetry: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana
· Deployment: Jenkins, ArgoCD
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)
We believe attracting and retaining the best talent and fostering an inclusive culture strengthens our business. DEIB improves our workforce, enhances trust with our partners and customers, and drives business success. Build your career in a place where diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging aren’t just words on paper – this is what drives our innovation, it’s how we connect, and it contributes to what makes us a market leader. We believe in a hiring and working environment where all people are respected and valued, regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes people unique. We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day!
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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