Senior 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: We’re building Leafcloud’s customer-facing platform layer — managed Kubernetes (Gardener), managed databases (CloudNativePG), and the customer portal that ties it all together. This role is the senior engineering anchor for that work. You’ll partner directly with the CTO on technical direction, and pair with a second platfor...