AT CASTOR, WE DRIVE FASTER, SMARTER MEDICAL RESEARCH

We believe that faster, more diverse clinical trials help extend the human health span and provide a greater return on investment.

We strive to improve the clinical trial experience for patients, sites and sponsors, using technology to accelerate every step of the clinical trial journey.

Our modular clinical trial platform enables the capture and re-use of research data from anywhere, anytime and helps optimize each activity in the clinical trial journey by reducing human effort with technology. From recruitment to monitoring, we help make it easier to design and deploy trials, enroll and engage patients, collect data and analyze results.

Next to being very purpose-driven, we are proud of our caring company culture. We follow our values diligently and take the well-being of each Castorian seriously. Sounds like something for you? Read on !

WHAT YOU`LL FOCUS ON

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be joining the team which supports Castor’s developers in getting their services running in production in a secure and reliable manner. After successfully completing a journey into public cloud throughout 2021-2022, our team is now helping development teams leverage cloud technologies and SaaS options in their products with a focus on containerization utilizing Kubernetes. As such, the main focus of this role is to build out a platform and fundamental infrastructure necessary for product development teams to operate their services on top of Azure cloud solutions and Kubernetes.
Typical day to day work will also include maintenance work necessary to “keep the lights on”, onboarding services to Kubernetes, development of supporting services and internal developer tooling using Python or Go.

As part of your role you will also take part in our on-call rotation.

WHO ARE YOU?

• You have 5+ years of experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering, but we’re open to a broad range of skills and expertise. Do you have experience in application development roles, working on plenty of deployment pipelines and monitoring/observability problems? We’d love to hear from you!
• You have the ability to describe the advantages and drawbacks of various system/cloud architectures and crafting architectural designs for them.
• You care deeply about security, reliability, and building systems that meet high operational standards.
• You’re a strong advocate for best practices, and you enjoy sharing your knowledge through documentation, training, and mentorship.

WHAT YOU`LL BRING

• Strong professional experience with container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes or Nomad, and development tooling within this area.
• An understanding of DevOps and Site Reliability Principles, and the ability to explain how these models enable efficient IT operations.
• Proficiency in deploying and optimizing cloud-based solutions in one of the major cloud providers, such as Azure.
• Experience building CLI applications or web-based projects, preferably in Python or Go.
• Proficiency in using at least one configuration management tool, such as Ansible.
• Experience with server and application performance monitoring and the ability to troubleshoot such issues.
• A commitment to engineering excellence, including high code quality, comprehensive testing, and operational robustness.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams.
• Experience collaborating with other engineers through code reviews, design discussions, documentation, and knowledge-sharing sessions.

It would be good if you had

• Experience supporting event-driven architecture.

Please note this is a European timezone based role, we are open to hire from different European countries, however, at this moment we are unable to accept applications from France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, and Switzerland.

How Castor takes care of you

At Castor we truly live and breathe one of our core values, believing we can achieve anything with a healthy and happy team. Our benefits reflect this:

• Guaranteed annual ‘happy holidays’ bonus
• Employee Stock Option Plan
• Learning & Development Budget to support your growth
• Unlimited annual leave
• A fully remote role, with support for your home office set-up
• A flexible working schedule: nobody is tracking your time except you, we focus on output and delivery
• A great work-life balance
• Quarterly downtime weeks, well-being workshops, sleeping courses, access to OpenUp, virtual company events and celebrations

We are a remote company. At Castor, we value flexibility and believe that the best talents can work anywhere in the world. From flexibility improvements to productivity growth, we want to make sure you are happy, healthy, and productive while working from home.

Every Castorian counts. We celebrate you for who you are. We build products to make clinical research accessible to the world and a company where everyone, anywhere, is welcome. It does not matter where you are from, where you are based, or what your gender, age, or sexual orientation is.

Our remote setup is for your family, your work-life balance, your mental health, and your right to be your most authentic self. You are celebrated for who you are, for all the differences that define you. We want your unique voice to be heard and succeed together as a happy and healthy team!

Castor continues to grow as an Equal Opportunities Employer. We strongly encourage applications from women, people of color, and people from the LGBTQ(+) community. Please feel free to share the pronouns you use (for example she/her/hers, he/her/his, they/them/theirs, etc.).