Senior Platform Engineer

Help us create the software platform that will change Norwegian healthcare forever.

Location: Oslo, Bodø, Bergen or Remote anywhere in Norway
Salary: 1.1-1.3m NOK/year

Why this role matters

At Aidn, we're creating the missing healthcare platform all Norwegians deserve—an integrated set of services and applications that allows municipal institutions, healthcare professionals, social workers, and citizens to collaborate on healthcare matters as a single team.

We're scaling quickly and will soon onboard larger municipalities and thousands more users, transforming our platform into critical infrastructure for Norwegian healthcare. Behind every product team delivering life-changing tools, there's a small infrastructure team ensuring it's all fast, secure, and reliable.

That's where you come in.

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you'll help us scale with confidence. Your work will enable developers to move quickly without breaking things, ensure systems recover gracefully under pressure, and help patients receive care without delays caused by downtime or complexity.

This isn't just about uptime—it's about impact. And the decisions you help make now will shape how healthcare is delivered for years to come.

What you'll be working on

You'll help evolve and operate the infrastructure that powers Aidn's mission-critical healthcare platform. Over the coming months, this will include projects such as:

• Migrating infrastructure fully to Azure and retiring legacy systems from OBS.
• Enhancing our developer experience by implementing tools like Backstage, self-hosted GitHub Actions runners, and streamlined environments for testing and demos.
• Improving security and access control by implementing clearer, infrastructure-level access policies and robust secret management.
• Centralizing observability using our LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir) and Pyroscope for application profiling.
• Scaling our Kubernetes clusters effectively with automated scaling via Karpenter.
• Implementing GitOps workflows with ArgoCD and managing our infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, Crossplane, Jsonnet, and Atlantis (for deploying infrastructure changes).
• Strengthening platform reliability through regular disaster recovery tests, introducing WAF protections, ZScaler private access, and detailed access logging pipelines.
• You'll collaborate closely with product teams to ensure our infrastructure stays secure, resilient, and developer-friendly as Aidn continues to grow.
  

Current Tech Stack

We believe in reducing complexity by choosing modern, reliable tools that are proven in production—favoring simplicity over novelty, and stability over hype. We're on a journey of continuous improvement, and we make technology decisions that support our business goals, developer experience, and long-term sustainability. These include:

• Cloud & Hosting: Microsoft Azure
• Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (AKS)
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Crossplane, Jsonnet
• CI/CD & GitOps: GitHub Actions (self-hosted), ArgoCD, GitOps
• Programming Languages & Scripting: Go, Python, Bash
• Observability: Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir (LGTM stack), Pyroscope
• Security & Access: Teleport, ZScaler, Azure WAF, Mnemonic
• Data & Messaging: PostgreSQL, Kafka
• Developer Platform: Backstage, Service Catalogs, Developer Tooling

What we're looking for

We're looking for a hands-on engineer who's curious, collaborative, and motivated by building systems that matter. You move fast, take initiative, and focus on impact over polish—delivering solutions that are solid, reliable, and good enough to grow with.

Must-Haves

• Production experience delivering and operating infrastructure at scale—you've written the code, not just drawn the architecture.
• Initiative and adaptability—you're comfortable learning new tools, solving unfamiliar problems, and wearing many hats.
• Strong communication skills—you write clearly, explain your thinking, and help others do their best work.
• A service-oriented mindset—you get energy from making things better for other developers and teams.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience designing or improving CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, or developer tooling.
• Background in a regulated industry like healthcare or finance.
• Time spent in a startup or fast-moving environment where you've had to figure things out quickly and independently.

Personal Attributes

• Collaborative & Clear Communicator – Works well across teams, builds trust, and brings others along.
• Honest & Direct – You say what you mean and value transparency.
• Supportive & Service-Minded – You help others level up and keep things moving.
• Good Sense of Humor – You bring a human touch, even in complex systems.

You're likely motivated by…

• Tackling hard problems that require creativity and good technical judgment.
• Reducing complexity by building simple, maintainable solutions.
• Driving operational excellence—building secure, reliable infrastructure others can trust.
• Sharing knowledge and creating leverage across teams through tools, documentation, and mentorship.

What success looks like

We believe clarity helps everyone thrive. Here's what success could look like in this role:

In 3 months:

• You've gotten to know our platform, our teams, and our priorities—and built trust with key stakeholders.
• You've shipped small but impactful improvements, like refining our CI/CD pipeline or helping centralize observability.
• You're participating in team discussions, asking sharp questions, and helping us see things we might miss.

In 6 months:

• You're a go-to person for infrastructure questions and a dependable force in our delivery process.
• You've taken ownership of a piece of the platform—maybe a new environment, a shared service, or a core workflow.
• You've helped improve how we work—whether through automation, documentation, or nudging us toward better defaults.

In 12 months:

• You're leading initiatives that improve resilience, scale, and developer experience across the company.
• You've helped embed operational best practices in product teams and reduced friction in their daily work.
• You've become a strong voice in infrastructure strategy—helping shape not just how we work, but what we work on.
  

Why you'll love working here High trust, real ownership

You'll be trusted to make decisions, take initiative, and shape your own path. There's little bureaucracy, and we hire people we trust to figure things out.

Growth that actually means something

You'll be the third full-time platform engineer, with the chance to leave a real mark on how our platform evolves. As the company scales, your opportunities to lead, mentor, and influence strategy will grow alongside it.

Support to get better

You'll have regular 1:1s, feedback, and mentoring from experienced engineering leaders. We support personal development through learning budgets, conference access, and time for deep work.

Flexibility that respects your life

Work from home, from one of our local offices, or take a workation if you need a change of scenery. We trust you to manage your time in a way that works for you and your team.

Perks and benefits

• 6 weeks vacation
• Flexible location and working hours
• Employee shares—you can own a piece of what you build
• A collaborative, caring team that values both kindness and excellence

Aidn is part of the Kernel cooperation, where we build technology for the next generation of welfare societies. With financial backing in order, we are privileged to be a fully autonomous startup busy building our company from the ground up the way we see fit.

Aidn recognizes and celebrates diversity in all its forms, visible and non-visible in all areas of the work environment. We work to promote an anti-discriminatory environment where everyone feels safe and welcome.

Read our full Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging policy in our handbook here.

Are you curious? We welcome you to check out our employee handbook to get to know us, some of our benefits, and what drives us.

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