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full-timeStaff Engineer, Platform
Flexport · Amsterdam, Netherlands
Flexport is a technology company focused on modernizing global trade and supply chain logistics. As a Staff Engineer within the Platform, Security, and Infrastructure team, you will be responsible for building and evolving the internal developer platform that supports hundreds of engineers. This role involves creating self-serve tooling, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and managing the company's container orchestration and observability stacks. You will act as a steward for the GraphQL and gRPC ecosystems, ensuring that middleware and schema sharing processes remain efficient. A significant portion of the work involves treating other engineers as customers, conducting user research to identify friction points, and proactively designing solutions to improve developer experience. This position is suited for a seasoned software engineer with over a decade of experience who possesses deep full-stack technical knowledge and strong product instincts. The ideal candidate is comfortable working across organizational boundaries, thrives in ambiguous environments, and has a proven track record of building core infrastructure or internal tooling that enhances overall engineering productivity.
About Flexport: At Flexport, we believe global trade can move the human race forward. That’s why it’s our mission to make global commerce so easy there will be more of it. We’re shaping the future of a $10T industry with solutions powered by innovative technology and exceptional people. Today, companies of all sizes—from emerging brands to Fortune 500s—use Flexport technology to move more than $19B of merchandise across 112 countries a year. The recent global supply chain crisis has put Flexport center stage as we continue to play a pivotal role in how goods move around the world. We are proud to have the support of the best investors in the game who believe in our mission, solutions and people. Ready to tackle global challenges that impact business, society, and the environment? Come join us. Staff Software Engineer: Platform Every engineer at Flexport ships code that moves real freight across 112 countries. The faster and safer they can do that, the faster the world's supply chains move. The PSI (Platform, Security & Infrastructure) team makes this possible: we build the paved path and tooling that hundreds of engineers around the world rely on every day to ship. This is not a role where you wait for tickets. You'll talk to engineers, dogfood our platform, and find the friction that's slowing us down, and then design and ship the tools to remove that. What You'll Do You'll own and evolve the developer platform that powers Flexport engineering. That means: Making the best paved paths and self-serve tooling possible that makes the right thing the easy thing, protected by guardrails but not locked gates. Creating and supporting developers with CI/CD pipelines (Buildkit, Github Actions), build tooling (Gradle, Bazel, npm/pnpm/bun, Go and Cargo) and artifact repositories (Artifactory, ECR, github). Owning and improving the backend and frontend developer experience. Acting as the steward of our GraphQL and gRPC ecosystem and make sure our middleware, federation and schema sharing, CLIs, codegen and servers and clients work smooth as butter. Evolving and integrating our IAM solutions and primitives so that everything is easy and secure by default. Making sure engineers can easily use and understand our container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS) and observability stack (Openmetrics, Datadog) that engineers rely on to run, understand and debug their services. Doing user research with developers : shadowing engineers, running interviews, and tracking DevX metrics so that what you build is grounded on data and not assumptions. Crossing organizational boundaries to align with product teams and ship changes that impact the whole engineering org. You Should Have 10+ years of software engineering experience , with significant time spent building developer platforms, internal tooling, or core infrastructure that other engineers depend on. Deep full-stack instincts : you're equally comfortable in a backend service, a frontend build pipeline, a Kubernetes manifest, and a CI configuration. Strong product instincts applied to internal users : you treat engineers as customers, identify what's actually worth building, and measure whether it worked. Expertise and hands on experience with at least one of each: a CI/CD system (Github Actions pref), a container orchestrator (Kubernetes pref.), build tooling preferably for more than one language, backend-for-frontend (Graphql pref.), service-to-service communication (gRPC preferred), Metrics and artifact storage. An appetite to take a shovel to that brown field: you thrive on fixing what’s broken and building bridges to what’s next. You don’t just throw migrations over the wall, you either execute them yourself or make sure they feel effortless. An independent mindset : you thrive in ambiguity, find the highest-leverage problems yourself, and don't wait to be told what to do. Excellent communication : you can run a developer interview, write a clear design doc, and align stakeholders across teams to land platform-wide changes. A generally helpful attitude . Everyone should know you within no-time as the person who gets stuff unblocked, points them in the right direction and makes their work easier. The 90’s can keep their BOFH. A drive for impact : you are not satisfying until every engineer is productive and confident thanks to your team. Nice to Have Experience in data-driven DevX development using metrics such as DORA. Experience with AWS. Experience in Identity and Access Management (IAM) at scale such as JWTs, OIDC and fine-grained authorization. Experience with Terraform. How We Work We come to the office 3 times a week to hang out, whiteboard, and ship together. We have the latest hardware and software, including frontier AI models on day one. We're agile, but not dogmatic. Teams decide how they work best. Why This Role Is Special Massive leverage : every improvement you ship is multiplied across hundreds of engineers and thousands of deploys a day. Full ownership : from deve
| Role | Staff Engineer, Platform |
|---|---|
| Company | Flexport |
| Location | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Type | full-time |
| Compensation | Not disclosed |
| Posted | 2026-10-07 |
| Deadline | Rolling |
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