Platform Engineering Jobs + Tools Digest — 2026-10-02

TL;DR

Jobs

22 platform-engineering roles this week, with Site Reliability Engineer (4) and Platform Engineer (3) trending. Highlights include Senior Software Engineer, Application Security at Discord, posted 3 days ago — Headquarters: San Francisco Bay Area or Remote Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: pl… and Principal Infrastructure Architect: Data Platform at ZoomInfo Technologies LLC, posted 3 days ago — Headquarters: Remote ZoomInfo is where careers accelerate. We move fast, think boldly, and empower you to do the best work of your life. You’ll be surrounded by teammates who care deeply, challenge each other, and celebr….

Tools & News

This week's roundup features 10 tools & news items, 0 of which mention AI, with "north" as a recurring theme.

Jobs

Senior Software Engineer, Application Security at Discord Source: WeWorkRemotely
Principal Infrastructure Architect: Data Platform at ZoomInfo Technologies LLC Source: WeWorkRemotely
CPS Solution Architect at Collibra Source: WeWorkRemotely
CPS Solution Architect at Collibra Source: WeWorkRemotely
Senior Staff Machine Learning Platform Engineer at Faire Source: WeWorkRemotely
DevOps Engineer (Remote) at thehivecareers.co Source: WeWorkRemotely
Security Operations Analyst at Huntress Source: WeWorkRemotely
Sales Development Representative - Mid-Market at Huntress Source: WeWorkRemotely
Developer Advocate - Service Management EMEA at Datadog Source: WeWorkRemotely
Software Engineer at CircleCI Source: WeWorkRemotely
Bilingual Channel Account Manager, Arabic (MEA) - UK at Keeper Security Source: WeWorkRemotely
Developer Advocate - Service Management at Datadog Source: WeWorkRemotely
Billing Systems Architect at Platform.sh Source: WeWorkRemotely
Senior Professional Services DevOps Engineer at JFrog Source: WeWorkRemotely
Senior SRE - Networks at Fastly Source: WeWorkRemotely
Analista de Infraestrutura Pleno DevOps at Melhor Envio Source: RemoteOK — python, docker, nosql, git, typescript, devops
Manager Platform Engineering at Natera Source: RemoteOK — manager, cloud, engineering, devops, senior, ai, lead
Senior Platform Engineer at saas.group Source: RemoteOK — senior, engineer, devops, architecture, ai, reliability, ops
Senior Site Reliability Engineer AI Infrastructure at Andromeda Cluster Source: RemoteOK — ai, devops, engineer, ops, reliability, senior
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Pave Bank Source: RemoteOK — senior, engineer, reliability, devops, gcp, kubernetes, docker, python, go, grafana
Senior Cloud Engineer at DV Trading Source: RemoteOK — senior, cloud, engineer, devops, aws, gcp, crypto, security
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at UJET Source: RemoteOK — senior, engineer, reliability, devops, ops, cloud, architecture, system, lead

Tools & News Roundup

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026: From user to contributor to maintainer Source: CNCF Blog
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026: Build your infrastructure engineer journey Source: CNCF Blog
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026: Build your application developer journey Source: CNCF Blog
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026: Build your SRE journey Source: CNCF Blog
Guardrails, not gates: rethinking policy in platform teams Source: CNCF Blog
ArgoCon North America 2026: What to expect as the Argo community looks toward CD 4.0 Source: CNCF Blog
From 40 seconds to under 10: rebuilding incident detection on OpenTelemetry, Apache Kafka, and Apache Flink on Kubernetes Source: CNCF Blog
The case for a cloud native agent harness Source: CNCF Blog
Security Slam 2026 – Fall edition Source: CNCF Blog
Observability Day: Where the community comes together at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 Source: CNCF Blog

UK Tech Contract Day Rates — 2026 Snapshot

Sector / specialism	Typical day rate (2026)
IT (median across all disciplines)	£576/day
Cloud and infrastructure	£550–£600/day
Software engineering	£500–£580/day
Product management	£490–£560/day
Data and analytics	£480–£530/day
AI and automation	£460–£520/day
Senior IT specialists (AI/ML, cloud, security architects)	£700–£1,200/day

AI-skilled candidates command a 17–26% premium over baseline rates in comparable roles.

Sources: ContractorUK market rates data; Morgan McKinley UK Technology Contract Salary Guide 2026; ITJobsWatch contract rate data (September 2026).