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Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer

Dubai · Hybrid · GCC + EMEAFull-timePlatformPosted 2026-05-07
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About placino

placino is a data clean room for regulated enterprises. We let multiple parties run privacy-preserving SQL and ML across each other's data, without exposing raw records. Each party contributes only encrypted, purpose-scoped columns; only privacy-preserving query results cross the boundary, gated by differential privacy, k-anonymity thresholds, and per-query policy enforcement. placino is delivered as SaaS. We operate the whole platform, and every tenant gets its own isolated environment with its data encrypted under that tenant's own key. Kubernetes-native. Terraform-managed. Infrastructure-as-code from day one. We are 11–50 people, headquartered in Dubai (IFZA Business Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis), serving regulated enterprises across finance, health, telco, and AdTech.

The role

You will own the platform topology that customers' own security teams need to trust. placino runs the clean room as SaaS: every tenant gets an isolated environment on infrastructure we operate, with that tenant's data encrypted under that tenant's own key. When three banks depend on the same clean room, the reliability of that path and the isolation between those tenants are both your domain. This is a senior IC role. Small team, high autonomy, real ownership.

What you will work on

  • Maintain and evolve the Kubernetes topology behind the clean room: multi-region, with a per-tenant isolated environment for every customer.
  • Build and harden the Terraform modules that stand up, move, and tear down tenant environments. Every tenant expects the same isolation guarantees, whichever region it lands in.
  • Lead the SRE practice: SLOs, error budgets, incident response, postmortems. The audit trail per query is the customer's compliance evidence. Uptime is non-negotiable.
  • Implement observability across every tenant environment (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) without any tenant data crossing its own isolation boundary.
  • Co-own the security posture: image hardening, supply-chain integrity (SBOM, Sigstore), mTLS everywhere, KMS / envelope encryption for at-rest and in-transit data.
  • Build release automation for the fleet: signed artifacts, deterministic builds, staged rollout across tenant environments with no cross-tenant blast radius.

You are a fit if

  • 5+ years hands-on with production Kubernetes at multi-cluster scale.
  • Deep Terraform (or OpenTofu): module design, state management, multi-account / multi-cloud topologies.
  • Production experience across at least 2 of: AWS, Azure, GCP.
  • Linux and networking fundamentals are second nature: iptables / nftables, eBPF, CNI plugins, service-mesh internals.
  • Have shipped to production in regulated environments (finance, health, gov) and understand the difference between "compliant on paper" and "evidence on demand".
  • Comfortable with cryptographic primitives in operations: KMS, envelope encryption, mTLS rotation, key escrow.

Bonus

  • Operating experience in hardened, high-assurance environments (defense, government, regulated finance).
  • Confidential computing exposure: Intel SGX, AMD SEV, AWS Nitro Enclaves.
  • Background in privacy tech, data infrastructure, or security tooling.
  • OpenTofu, Pulumi, or Crossplane familiarity beyond Terraform alone.
  • Open-source contributions in the K8s, observability, or SRE ecosystem.

What we offer

  • Competitive compensation aligned to senior IC market rates.
  • Equity participation.
  • Hybrid Dubai HQ + remote-first culture; GCC + EMEA collaboration windows.
  • Healthcare, learning budget, conference attendance.
  • Real ownership in a small team: your name on the code that ships, not buried in a 200-engineer org chart.

How to apply

Send résumé + a one-paragraph note describing the hardest infrastructure problem you have shipped to production: what made it hard, what you decided, what you would do differently, to careers@placino.com. We read every note. We read résumés second.

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