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 Energy’s 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. It’s 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 team's 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

• Bachelor's or Master's 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 1,000 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 we’re 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.
• We’re 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 you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t 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 genetics. In 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.