Platform Engineer

About Us

No Isolation is an award-winning scale-up in EdTech with offices in Oslo, London, and Munich building human-centered technology that turns absence into real-time participation, connection, and belonging.

Our flagship solution, the AV1 robot, is deployed in 19 countries with 4,800+ units, supporting schools to sustain attendance, belonging, and continuity of learning for children who cannot be physically present. Families consistently describe AV1 as life-changing - it rebuilds connection and continuity, bringing back everyday happiness and helping students stay on track to pass their grades.

The Opportunity — Platform Engineering

As adoption grows, we must scale to support larger device fleets, increasingly complex feature sets as well as new data-driven capabilities.

As our very first Platform Engineer, you will own the pillars that our product team and our robots build upon: cloud infrastructure, IoT device services, CI/CD, observability, security, and developer experience.

You are a technologist who thrives with people. Your craft is reliability and enablement. You facilitate the right choices, reduce toil, and turn operational excellence into a repeatable habit across.

What You'll Do — Scope & Responsibilities

Infrastructure management

• Automate cloud (and some on‑prem) resources and policies using IaC/CaC (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) for consistent, repeatable, container‑centric deployments

• Engineer redundancy, routing, networking, and load balancing to integrate backend services with robots, mobile, and web clients; operate and evolve Kubernetes (incl. Traefik ingress)

• Monitor and right‑size infrastructure against defined metrics; run regular audits and upgrades to stay current and secure

Site reliability engineering

• Own and mature observability, monitoring, and alerting with e.g. Grafana Stack, Prometheus; implement high‑signal dashboards and noise-free, actionable alerts

• Define SLIs/SLOs to clarify "done" and "good enough"; run backup DR dry‑runs; participate in incident response and drive durable fixes

DevSecOps integration

• Build modern golden paths and secure CI/CD that make the most out of GitLab

• Shift security to the left: scanning, guardrails, secrets/encryption, access & identity controls

Team collaboration & enablement

• Provide hands‑on guidance to backend, frontend/mobile, and embedded teams; document things, lead workshops, and improve processes so the team can self‑serve

• Align platform work with product delivery cadence; mentor on productivity enablers and change adoption; make platform engineering a shared effort

Selective opportunities (as bandwidth allows)

• AI enablement: make our engineering team AI‑native (e.g., MCP/ACP, AIOps) in a safe, deliberate, and targeted way

• Test automation: evolve regression/e2e frameworks, hardware abstractions, and data/process mocking

• Data platform: improve pipelines for warehousing/analytics and potential production ML management in the future

• Security stack: iterate on CNAPP, SIEM, ISMS, Compliance & Trust, dependency management, network and cloud security

What You Bring — Experience & Capabilities

• Senior infrastructure leadership: 5+ years owning AWS-based platforms in production, including Kubernetes troubleshooting under load — ideally scaling IoT fleets with WebRTC streaming, sockets, and REST APIs for real-time reliability

• Self-starting pragmatism: As our inaugural Platform Engineer, you thrive in greenfield ambiguity—methodically evaluating options, resisting hype, and prioritizing solutions that align with long-term scalability over quick wins

• 10x enablement: You transform teams by automating away toil: eradicating ClickOps, enabling local dev environments, integrating Terraform into GitLab CI/CD with OIDC service accounts, and curating Sentry events, refined alerts, and SLO-driven insights for proactive issue resolution

• Cross-domain impact: Versatile across embedded, mobile, backend, and our emerging data practice; you influence company-wide KPIs—like user happiness metrics—visible to engineering and executive leadership, accelerating our evolution into a data-powered mission

• Compliance-first mindset: Proven delivery of GDPR-compliant systems, with hands-on ISO 27001 implementation and SOC 2 readiness; you embed privacy and security as non-negotiable foundations, not afterthoughts

• Technical breadth: STEM background with polymath experience in high-stakes environments; curious yet disciplined, you balance innovation (e.g., AI, test automation, security uplifts) with operational rigor to ship daily and sustain excellence

Why You'll Love it Here

• Purpose with scale: Your work keeps thousands of children connected, learning, and included—every single day
• Real systems, real impact: From fleets of robots to real-time apps, you'll tackle reliability challenges that matter in the physical world
• Autonomous ownership: As our foundational Platform Engineer, shape your domain, collaborating across our tight-knit engineering team and partners in Product, Hardware, and Customer Success
• Work with exceptional leaders: Build, learn, and grow alongside our Director of Engineering (Jerome Ginss) to shape a high-trust, learning-driven engineering culture, and impact KPIs valued by the executive team
• Grow your craft: Receive dedicated coaching to elevate your skills, with freedom to embed best practices like automated compliance and AI-assisted ops, fostering daily releases and proactive reliability
  

Our Tech Stack

Think Cloud, mobile apps, web apps, and fleets of connected robots. It's a living, breathing technical footprint, wired by WebRTC, web sockets and Rest APIs. We pride ourselves with a choice of modern, exciting, yet battle-tested technologies. We balance hosting and buying core systems pragmatically.

• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Traefik, Terraform, Ansible
• Observability: Grafana stack, Prometheus, Cloudwatch
• Development: GitLab, Sentry, Linear, OhDear
• Languages: Golang, React, React Native, , Rust (Embassy), Python
• Platforms: Linux, Android, iOS, our custom Yocto distributions
• Data & Analytics: MySQL, MongoDB, ClickHouse, Metabase

Location

This role is based in Oslo with hybrid flexibility at our headquarters.

We welcome all qualified applicants. Due to current visa/work-permit processes, we can progress candidates already in Norway or relocating from within the EU/EEA. (This note is about work authorization only; no sensitive personal data is required.)

How to Apply

Please click Apply and upload your CV and a short cover letter outlining your motivation.

If you want your engineering craft to shape technology that genuinely changes lives, and you'll lead with rigor and empathy, we'd love to hear from you.

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