Cloud Platform Engineer

It's a new day with a new opportunity at 8am!

About the role:

8am is looking for a Cloud Platform Engineer to help us build and maintain our next-generation platform. You will be a member of the Platform Engineering Organization, which is responsible for the software and infrastructure management focusing on availability, performance and security of core service layers supporting our payments platform and practice management software. We serve over 200,000 legal professionals and process over $18 billion in payments every year! You will work closely with our development teams to ensure they have the tools needed to build, test, and deploy code with ease and ensure software and quality engineer success. You will engineer and maintain configuration management environments, software delivery pipelines, IaC processes, technical governance and observability tools among other areas of platform availability.

This role is hired through an Employer of Record (EOR) partner in the Czech Republic.

About us:

8am builds software that helps professionals run stronger businesses. Our platform powers payments, client experience, and operational workflows for legal, accounting, and other service-based businesses. U.S. based professionals count on our purpose-built solutions to simplify operations, ensure compliance, and fuel profitable growth, so they can focus on their clients and do more of the work that matters.

More than 250,000 professionals across the U.S. rely on our products every day. As we continue to grow, we’re investing in the next generation of our platform and are looking for experienced engineers who want to help shape its future.

What you'll do:

Automate deployment, monitoring, and management for 100% AWS cloud based infrastructure

Develop, implement and own developer focused internal tooling and automation as your product

Share in new feature design as the cloud SME supporting container/k8s first designs

Create and maintain automated Ci/CD pipelines that streamline the release process and ensure high-quality code is delivered rapidly and continuously in a safe and compliant manner

Develop, manage and enhance the Internal Developer and Production Platforms achieving maximum availability and stability metrics

Collaborate with developers to identify pain points and bottlenecks in the development process and design and implement solutions that improve the developer experience and increase overall productivity

Put together comprehensive onboarding programs and training resources to seamlessly integrate new developers into the organization

Participate in an on-call rotation and provide emergency support occasionally outside of normally scheduled hours as needed

Evolve and extend observability tools and systems to determine and resolve performance and usability issues

About you:

5+ years of professional technical experience in software engineering, AWS cloud operations or a related function.

3+ years of experience within a DevOps, INF or Platform Engineering role

Experience implementing and maintaining kubernetes specific Ci/CD pipelines using CircleCI (preferred), ArgoCD (preferred), Jenkins, Github Actions, Gitlab, Azure Devops, etc.

Experience creating internal tooling that supports developer productivity

Experience designing and implementing automated development environments

Documented experience provisioning and managing infrastructure in a public cloud environment such as AWS (heavily preferred), Google Cloud Platform, or Azure

Experience with Linux container technologies, such as Docker, OCI, LXC and ability to administer, build and deploy images in an automated manner.

Solid understanding of how a Kubernetes platform operates (service discovery, deployments, monitoring, scheduling, load balancing)

Proficiency in at least one, ideally more of the following programming or scripting languages: Ruby, Python, Java, Javascript (NodeJS), Bash

Experience utilizing Infrastructure as Code to provision and maintain infrastructure: Terraform (preferred), CloudFormation

Working understanding of relational database systems such as MySQL (preferred) and PostgreSQL

Experience with Kafka on an MSK environment is a plus

Experience with ElasticSearch is a plus

Experience with generative and agentic AI in an infrastructure management and implementation perspective is a plus

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools and technologies to improve workflows, enhance decision-making, or drive innovation.

This position is preferably based in Brno, Czech Republic

Additional Information

The monthly gross salary range for this position is CZK 120,000 to CZK 150,000. 8am is committed to fair, objective, and non-discriminatory compensation, and actual pay may vary based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and education.

Why join our new 8am Brno hub?

Founding Team Impact: Be a founding engineer of our new Brno R&D hub. After a brief 1-6 month integration with U.S. based teams, you will help form fully autonomous, locally-led squads with clear paths to Staff and leadership roles with the exciting opportunity to collaborate face-to-face with your team in our upcoming Brno office.

Drive our "AI-First" Transformation: We are building a secure, massive-scale "Unified AI Platform". Depending on your squad, you will either help architect this core infrastructure (LLM routing, RAG, agent orchestration) or build directly on top of it.

Build the Next Generation of Our Platform: Help shape the systems powering products used by more than 250,000 professionals. You’ll work on complex platform capabilities across payments, workflow automation, and AI-powered features as we expand into new professional service markets.

Benefits and Perks

We offer a competitive, locally relevant benefits package designed to support your life in the Czech Republic while giving you access to global opportunities:

Flexible Time Off (FTO) and 13 paid public holidays aligned with the Czech calendar

Paid sick leave with additional support through the Czech social security system

Maternity, paternity, and parental leave in line with Czech regulations, plus additional paid paternity leave from 8am

Full statutory benefits , including public health insurance, social security, pension, and work accident coverage

Possible performance bonus opportunities in the future and employee referral rewards

Grow Your Career

Access to Coursera (including Gen AI Academy) and ongoing professional development

Clear growth paths, regular feedback, and opportunities for advancement

What Makes 8am Different:

International company environment with collaboration across Europe and the U.S.

Opportunities to travel for company events (including potential U.S. visits)

Engaging team culture with local events, outings, and community initiatives

High-quality company swag and programs focused on wellness, learning, and connection

New Brno office coming soon, with opportunities to work in-person and enjoy a flexible hybrid setup

Diversity, equity & inclusion at 8am:

At 8am, we recognize that innovation occurs with a strong team of people who are diverse in background, personality, talent and ideas. Experience comes in many forms and ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we continue to learn from each other is an integral part of our culture. We are committed to creating a welcoming and transparent environment for all that embraces those differences through education, equal access to opportunities and information, inclusionary programs, and community outreach.

Security advisory:

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