Platform Engineer

Join the Market Leader in Electric Power Data and Analytics Solutions

The electrical grid is the largest and most complicated machine ever built. Yes Energys industry-leading electric power trading analytics software provides real-time visibility into the massive amount of data generated by the North American electrical grid daily. Our unique and innovative view of the data informs real-time trading decisions and mid-to-long-term investment decisions that keep utility prices low support the energy transition and keep the grid running. Its both challenging work and work with a purpose.

Be a part of our successful growing business during international transformation.

Position Summary

We are hiring a Platform Engineer to help build and operate the core platform that powers software delivery across Yes Energy. This role sits within the Platform Team part of the Product Technology Services (PTS) group and is focused on the foundation our development and operations teams depend on: application platform support CI/CD pipelines containers and Kubernetes observability and infrastructure as code that is repeatable safe and secure.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role. You will independently implement and improve meaningful parts of the platform contribute to the patterns and standards the team works from take part in design and code review and mentor other engineers. We run a lean high-trust operation so we need someone who can self-direct learn new technologies quickly and exercise sound judgment about which technologies are genuinely beneficial not just which are new. Success in this role means helping deliver a resilient scalable platform that empowers developers and operators accelerates delivery and holds a high standard for stability security and observability.

Position Details

• Salary Range: Net 17.000 - 20.000 RON/month
• Location: Hybrid (Bucharest Romania)
• Schedule: Full-time; 2-3 days in the office (at least 2 days overlap with US MT workday)
• Reporting to: Platform Engineering Manager

Primary Responsibilities

• Design build and maintain the application platform self-service tools reusable patterns and golden paths that let developers focus on building features.
• Build improve and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows that make delivery faster safer and more repeatable.
• Operate and advance our container and Kubernetes platforms with a focus on reliability scalability and developer experience.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code that is repeatable safe and secure; Terraform strongly preferred.
• Strengthen observability across the platform using the Elastic Stack logging metrics dashboards and alerting.
• Work across cloud environments Azure AWS and OCI applying cloud-native patterns for compute networking identity and cost-aware operations.
• Contribute to the teams standards and reusable patterns take part in design and code review and mentor other engineers.
• Evaluate and recommend fit-for-purpose tooling balancing developer experience operational simplicity security cost and maintainability.
• Partner with other PTS teams to keep platform capabilities reliable secure and well integrated.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Information Technology Engineering or a related field; or equivalent practical experience.
• Five or more years of professional experience in platform engineering infrastructure DevOps SRE or software engineering supporting production systems.
• Strong hands-on experience operating production cloud infrastructure including compute networking identity storage and monitoring.
• Hands-on experience operating containers and Kubernetes in production.
• Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Production experience with infrastructure as code; Terraform strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of observability monitoring logging and alerting.
• Solid scripting and automation skills (e.g. Python Bash PowerShell).
• A self-directed learner who picks up new technologies independently makes pragmatic decisions about technology selection and is comfortable mentoring peers and contributing to team standards.

Key Competencies & Preferred Qualifications

• Systems Thinking: Takes a broad holistic view of infrastructure and understands how people processes and technology interact to build scalable aligned and resilient platform solutions
• Problem Solving: Applies structured thinking and sound judgment to break down complex system failures identify root causes and generate practical scalable technical fixes
• Platform Architecture & Design: Applies modern architectural patterns to design maintainable cloud platforms knowing exactly when to utilize container orchestration automation and self-service paradigms based on organizational context.
• Pragmatic Technology Selection: Evaluates and selects tooling based on long-term maintainability and business value rather than novelty keeping the engineering footprint consolidated yet open to optimization.
• Security & Compliance: Builds infrastructure with robust access controls identity management and governance patterns in mind partnering with safety compliance guardrails.
• Effective Communication: Delivers clear concise and purposeful technical context adapting written and verbal explanations seamlessly to both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders
• Technical Leadership & Growth Mindset: Models strong software engineering practices acts as a self-directed learner who can autonomously lift team capabilities and actively mentors peers.
• AI/ML Workload Exposure: Exposure to supporting or provisioning infrastructure for AI/ML engineering machine learning pipelines or data science environments is a major plus.

At Yes Energy we value connecting directly with candidates. We kindly ask that third-party recruiters and agencies not submit resumes as we are not open to external recruiting partnerships.

ABOUT YES ENERGY

Overview

Yes Energy delivers real-time market data and electric power trading decision solutions. Over 1000 market participants use Yes Energy solutions daily. The business is a leader in all aspects of information content collection and management developing and delivering data and market analytics solutions. Since its inception in 2008 Yes Energy has become a trusted and respected supplier of innovative and reliable solutions focused on the needs of power market analysts traders and trade managers. Yes Energy has a team of 400 amazing professionals in Boulder CO (HQ); Boston MA; Chicago IL; Glendora CA; Richmond VA; London United Kingdom; Auckland New Zealand; and Bucharest Romania.

Culture

Yes Energy has been named one of the Best Places to Work in Colorado and we have the culture to prove it. At Yes Energy we care about saying Yes to customers. We like to listen learn and develop our solutions in line with their needs. We think about customers as business partners and when we help them be more successful we are more successful too.

Around the office our culture is driven by some pretty fundamental values that were proud of:

• We love innovation and solving tough challenges;
• We are high standards people who combine passion and pride with hard work and rewards of all kinds-- in an ethic that is consistent across the company.
• Were team-focused with a flat hierarchy-- we work in small teams on well-defined projects that directly impact the success of the business;
• We play to the strengths and experience of each person while each of us also works along a continuum of roles adjacent to our focus area. This presents the challenge of maintaining a broad set of skills as well as an opportunity to learn and contribute in many ways.
• We are constantly growing. Professional development happens every day and every year.

Compensation and Benefits

We offer highly competitive salaries and real bonuses that are achievable and that you can impact. Our benefits package includes private medical insurance wellness/gym benefits flexible vacation and flexible work schedules. Yes Energy encourages and funds investment in both formal and informal professional development.

At Yes Energy we are dedicated to building a diverse inclusive and authentic workplace. If youre excited about this role but your experience doesnt perfectly align with every qualification in the job description we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Yes Energy provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin age disability or addition to federal law requirements Yes Energy complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location where the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.