Summary
About this role
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer
Team: Platform
Prolific
Prolific is not just another player in the AI space – we are the architects of the human data infrastructure that's reshaping the landscape of AI development. In a world where foundational AI technologies are increasingly commoditised, it's the quality and diversity of human-generated data that truly differentiates products and models.
The role
Our Cloud Platform team empowers developers to build and deploy their applications swiftly, securely, and seamlessly. As a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer, you'll be deep in Prolific's technical foundation, ensuring our infrastructure remains scalable, reliable, and ready for growth. You'll implement automation strategies that reduce complexity, champion best practices, and serve as a trusted technical expert to teams across Prolific.
What you’ll bring to the role
- Extensive experience administering and optimising large-scale Kubernetes clusters
- Strong experience with Kubernetes tooling, such as Helm and kustomize
- Strong experience with GitOps tooling and methodologies, such as ArgoCD
- Proven experience with Google Cloud Platform services and architecture
- Strong knowledge in GKE and Kubernetes, including maintenance and optimisation of production clusters
- Strong experience with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and automation
- Solid programming skills in Python and/or TypeScript
- Experience creating developer-focused documentation and self-service solutions that enable teams to easily self-serve
- Strong customer empathy, with a focus on supporting the needs of internal teams (our Prolificos)
What you’ll be doing in the role
- Manage and optimise our Kubernetes clusters in GKE through Terraform
- Support our compliance with SOC2, ISO-27001, and Cyber Essentials standards in our cloud environments
- Design and implement golden paths and automation strategies that empower developers to self-serve while reducing operational complexity
- Create and maintain infrastructure solutions that allow development teams to build and deploy safely, easily, and efficiently
- Serve as the technical point-of-contact for GCP and Kubernetes-related queries, providing expertise to other Prolificos
Even better if you have
- We’re a multi-cloud team - experience with AWS and CDK is a big plus.
- Experience implementing/maintaining cloud compliance standards (SOC2, ISO-27001)
- Familiarity with observability tools like Datadog
- Background in implementing security best practices in cloud infrastructure
Why Prolific is a great place to work
We've built a unique platform that connects researchers and companies with a global pool of participants, enabling the collection of high-quality, ethically sourced human behavioral data and feedback. This data is the cornerstone of developing more accurate, nuanced, and aligned AI systems.
We believe that the next leap in AI capabilities won't come solely from scaling existing models, but from integrating diverse human perspectives and behaviors into AI development. By providing this crucial human data infrastructure, Prolific is positioning itself at the forefront of the next wave of AI innovation – one that reflects the breath and the best of humanity.
Working for us will place you at the forefront of AI innovation, providing access to our unique human data platform and opportunities for groundbreaking research. Join us to enjoy a competitive salary, benefits, and remote working within our impactful, mission-driven culture.
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Other facts
About Prolific
Prolific Making diverse, high-quality data easily available to anyone, anywhere
Prolific helps dedicated research teams to collect the very highest-quality human-powered data - at scale - using our simple-to-use platform to target and manage participants from our diverse, vetted participant pool.
The truth matters: the best decisions, and biggest discoveries, are built on the highest-quality data. And with the increasing proliferation of AI, access to reliable, diverse data to develop and train AI models has never been more important.
Created by researchers for researchers, Prolific was founded to provide a better way for researchers and organisations to get high-quality human data and feedback at scale for important research.
Now, more than 30,000 researchers across academia and industry use Prolific to gather definitive human data and feedback from reliable, engaged and fairly-treated participants – with a new study launched every 3 minutes.
Active Founders
Phelim Bradley Founder Co-Founder and CEO of prolific.co.Prolific is a platform that makes it easy to run high quality online research. We manage a diverse pool of 100,000+ verified participants and provide access to an ecosystem of tools to run research on them. Previously, I did a PhD in Bioinformatics, where I wrote software to analyze and search bacterial data sets using graph data structures.
Phelim Bradley Founder Co-Founder and CEO of prolific.co.Prolific is a platform that makes it easy to run high quality online research. We manage a diverse pool of 100,000+ verified participants and provide access to an ecosystem of tools to run research on them. Previously, I did a PhD in Bioinformatics, where I wrote software to analyze and search bacterial data sets using graph data structures.
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What you'll do
- Manage and optimise Kubernetes clusters in GKE through Terraform and support compliance with various standards in cloud environments. Design and implement automation strategies that empower developers to self-serve while reducing operational complexity.
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