About Pleo
At Pleo, we’re on a mission to revolutionise the way businesses manage company spending. No more outdated processes, clunky spreadsheets, or frustrating delays - we believe spend management should be seamless, empowering, and surprisingly effective for finance teams and employees alike. We’re creating tools that promote autonomy, foster trust, and let businesses focus on what truly matters.
Our culture is built on transparency, collaboration, and a deep commitment to innovation – which is reflected in our spending solution. At Pleo, you’ll join a passionate team shaping the future of work, all while having some fun along the way.
About the role
In this role, you will work with our core infrastructure, everything from how our cloud providers (AWS and GCP) are configured through Terraform to how our microservices are deployed to Kubernetes and being monitored. You can see a more detailed list below of the things we work with. We believe that you have worked in some of them and that you’ll quickly learn the rest on the job. Working with all these tools and the wide scope of the team can be daunting, but you will work in a large SRE team where teamwork is highly encouraged.
What you’ll be doing
In the SRE team, you can expect to:
- Design, implement, and maintain reliable, scalable infrastructure that supports our platform and application services.
- Contribute to SRE standards and tooling, helping evolve our infrastructure-as-code, observability stack, and service reliability framework.
- Collaborate with other engineers to resolve production incidents and contribute to post-incident reviews and improvements.
- Plan and execute upgrades of core infrastructure systems (e.g. EKS, databases, Kafka clusters), minimising downtime and effort required by other teams.
- Learn and grow within a supportive team, developing deeper expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, and observability.
In case you are curious, here is a list of some of the technologies the team is working with: Grafana, AWS (and most of its major services), GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, Flux / GitOps, Istio, GitHub Actions, Go.
Who you’ll be working with and reporting to
You will be reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager of our SRE team which is part of our Developer Platform Group. In the Developer Platform Group, you will also find our Security, Developer Experience, and Backend Core teams. You’ll work closely with these teams, and cross-team collaboration is encouraged. This gives you a wonderful opportunity to continue to grow in your role and both widen and deepen your skills.
How you’ll develop in this role
In your first few months at Pleo, you will:
- Get familiar with our codebase and tech stack
- Collaborate with teammates on current initiatives, learning by contributing directly to meaningful projects across the team.
- Learn about other areas of the business so you understand what purpose our product serves
- Collaborate with the team on technology and infrastructure discussions (everyone’s opinion is listened to, even if they’re new to the team!).
We’re committed to helping you develop your career, whether that means taking on bigger projects, stepping into leadership, or acquiring new skills in software engineering.
Why join us?
Working at Pleo means you're working on something very exciting: the future of work. Our mission is to help every company go beyond the books. Pleo itself means ‘more than you’d expect’, and it’s been the secret to our success over the last 8 years. So it’s only fitting that we’d pass this philosophy onto our customers to help them make the most of their finances.
We think company spending should be delegated to all employees and teams, that it should be as automated as possible, and that it should drive a culture of responsible spending. Finance teams shouldn’t be siloed from the rest of the organisation – they should work in unity with marketing, sales, IT and everyone else.
Speaking of working in unity, our values tell the story of how we work at Pleo. We have four core values, the first of which is ‘champion the customer’, which means we address real pain points that businesses face. Next up is ‘succeed as a team’, which highlights how our strength lies in our diversity and trust in each other. We also ‘make it happen’ by taking bold decisions and following through to deliver results. Last but not least, we ‘build to scale’, creating lasting solutions that address today’s challenges and anticipate tomorrow’s needs.
So, in a nutshell, that's Pleo. Today we are a 850+ team, from over 100 nations, sitting in our Copenhagen HQ, London, Stockholm, Berlin, Madrid, Montreal and Lisbon offices —and quite a few full-time remotes in 35 other countries! Being HQ'd out of Copenhagen means we're inspired by things like a good work-life balance. If you don't work in the office with us, we'll help you set up the best remote setup possible and make sure you still have time to connect with your team.
The package
The annual salary for this position varies based on your location:
- United Kingdom: £69,000 - £74,000
- Denmark, Sweden, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands: €78,700 - €83,500
- Spain, Portugal & France: €71,500 - €75,900
The role can be based in any of the locations where we have a legal entity, including: Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Spain, Portugal, France, the UK & the Netherlands.
We can hire either remotely, hybrid or in office but you need to be physically based in any of those countries (even if working remotely).
Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role in any of the listed locations you find the job info so you will need to have a valid right to work.
We’re happy to share more about our approach to pay and this range during your first call with us!
Show me the benefits!
- 💳 Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
- 🍜 Lunch is on us for your work days - enjoy catered meals or receive a lunch allowance based on your local office
- 🏥 Comprehensive private healthcare - depending on your location, coverage options include Vitality, Alan or Médis
- 🌴 We offer 25 days of holiday + your public holidays
- 🏠 For our Team, we offer both hybrid and fully remote working options
- 🏖️ Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice
- ❤️🩹 We use MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and well-being support with great success so far
- 👶 Paid parental leave - we want to make sure that we're supportive of families and help you feel that you don't have to compromise your family due to work
What you bring
You have worked in established Platform / SRE / Infrastructure teams and have experience working with Kubernetes and managing multiple clusters (10+). Besides that, you are:
- Able to work in English with ease (it's our company language)
- Curious and love learning about new languages / frameworks / working styles
- Experienced in solving complex technical challenges at scale
- Striving for a high bar for quality and reliability within your team
- Advocating for a more thorough code review process than a quick scroll to the bottom of the page and a “LGTM!”
- Able to help to design the overall solution instead of “just” writing code
- Sought after within your team for help in solving challenging problems
- A force multiplier within your team - your work enables other engineers to do even better
- Able to raise and describe technical debt faced by your team, and then able to propose a solution or path forward.
Why is this role a good fit for you
This role is for you if:
- You have experience working in Platform / SRE / Infrastructure teams with established practices in large engineering environments (100+ engineers).
- You have experience with Kubernetes, cloud platforms (such as AWS, GCP, or Azure), and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform to build and manage reliable systems.
- You are genuinely excited about helping developers and proactively build relationships with them.
This role may not be for you if:
- Your experience has been mostly as a single SRE or very small embedded team.
- You prefer to focus deeply in one area. We work across a wide variety of systems and challenges.
- Your experience has been mostly focused on release management and you spend a lot of time managing CI/CD pipelines.
