Core Platform Engineer

Company Description:

Playo is a leading global sports activity platform with over 5 million users across 5 countries, that connects players, venues, trainers, and brands in one full stack ecosystem across 50+ sports. We operate at the intersection of consumer technology, social networking, marketplaces & real-world logistics and are building a scalable, multi-vertical sports-tech venture with a focus on long-term sustainability and global dominance.

The Opportunity:

Playo's services run on a containerised AWS stack, and the platform underneath them is what makes shipping fast, safe, and observable. We're hiring a Core Platform Engineer to help operate these services and own operational excellence implementations.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Build and operate Playo's production services on AWS — owning containerisation, task definitions, deployments, and scaling.
• Build platform tooling, automation, and internal services.
• Own the open-source observability stack (Grafana, Loki, Prometheus) — dashboards, PromQL, structured logs, alerting that's actionable rather than noisy.
• Investigate incidents end-to-end, fix root causes, and turn each one into a runbook, alert, or guardrail so it doesn't recur.
• Improve the system of SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and on-call hygiene that keeps Playo's services reliable as the codebase and traffic grow.

Requirements:

• 4+ years experience building and shipping in AWS production environments.
• Comfortable operating Node.js and python services in production i.e debug, deploy, and understand implementation
• Hands-on with AWS ECS and containerised workloads (Docker, task definitions, services, rollouts)
• Working experience with the open-source observability stack — Grafana, Loki, Prometheus
• Working familiarity with AWS operational excellence and SRE fundamentals
• Passion for sports and fitness
• Excitement about working in a fast-paced startup environment

Next Steps:

Believe you have what it takes to join us on the playfield? If so, drop us an email indicating “Core Platform Engineer” in the subject line with your resume to careers@playo.co. We would really appreciate it if you could articulate why you believe you are best suited for this!