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Small, senior teams with clear ownership. You'll know who decides what, and your scope is honest.
You'll join the Platform team — four engineers responsible for every paved road our product teams ride on. We operate multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS and Azure AKS, run our internal developer portal, and own the on-call escalation for everything south of the app layer.
We treat the platform like a product. Other engineers are our customers, we run quarterly customer-satisfaction surveys internally, and we measure ourselves on lead-time-to-production and incident MTTR.
What you'll do
We hire for outcomes, not tasks. Here's what success looks like in your first year.
Roll out a paved-road service template that takes a new internal service from repo creation to staging in under an hour
Drive a 30% reduction in monthly AWS spend by right-sizing, spot adoption and tighter autoscaling
Own and improve the on-call experience — better runbooks, faster alerting, fewer pages
Lead our SOC 2 Type II readiness work for the infrastructure controls
Build a self-service developer portal on Backstage, with golden paths for the three most common service types
Mentor a junior platform engineer and own their growth plan
What you'll bring
If you don't tick every box, please apply anyway. We hire for trajectory, not a literal checklist.
Compensation
Transparent, top-of-market, and adjusted thoughtfully for region of residence.
$75K – $110K
$75K – $110K base salary, calibrated to seniority and region of residence
Stock options
0.04% – 0.10% in stock options, four-year vesting with a one-year cliff
Performance
On-call participation included; quarterly platform-impact bonus
Interview process
Predictable, respectful, and fast. We aim for a clear decision within three weeks of your first conversation.
Our promises
Get-to-know-each-other conversation about your story and how we work.
A platform engineer will dig into a production incident or migration you've owned. Expect deep Kubernetes, Terraform and incident-response questions.
A small Terraform + Kubernetes design exercise reflecting a real Spalce problem. We pay for your time.
Three sessions: a design review of your take-home, an architecture interview, and a values + collaboration chat.
Reference conversations and a written offer with full comp, on-call expectations and onboarding plan.
About Spalce
Spalce Technologies is a Ghana-headquartered software company building reliable systems for banks, fintechs, telcos, governments and high-growth startups across Africa and beyond. Our customers move money, serve citizens, and run mission-critical operations on the software we build with them. We're small enough that your work shows up immediately, and serious enough that it has to be right.
We're remote-first across all major African time zones, with hubs in Accra and Lagos and team members across Kenya, Rwanda and South Africa. Our customers span four continents — and our standards are global. If you want to do the best work of your career, near home, with people who care about craft and the continent, you're in the right place.
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We hire continuously, but the best opportunities go fast. If the work in this role looks like the next chapter of your career, we'd genuinely love to hear from you this week.
Applications close Jul 30, 2026
We review on a rolling basis, so earlier is better.
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A real human will read your application. Expect a response within 5 business days.
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