Platform Engineer

Job description

Leafcloud is a sovereign cloud provider based in the Netherlands. We run real European infrastructure on open standards — OpenStack, Ceph, Kubernetes (Gardener) — for customers who care where their data lives and how their compute is powered. We are also unusual in how we run our infrastructure. Our Leaf Sites are distributed compute installations placed inside buildings that need heat: data centres that warm offices, hotels, and apartments instead of sending hot air into the sky. The result is genuinely lower-carbon cloud — not a marketing claim, an architectural choice. We’re a small team in a serious moment. We’re rebuilding our second OpenStack core, adding Leaf Sites, launching managed databases, and laying the groundwork for sovereign AI inference. There’s real ownership available to people who want to shape what European cloud looks like. About the role: This role is the second engineer on Leafcloud’s platform-products team. You’ll pair with the Senior Platform Engineer (and the CTO) on building our managed database service, the customer-facing Kubernetes experience, and the customer portal. We’re explicitly hiring for one of two complementary profiles: Profile A — Backend-l...