Release Platform Engineer

We’re one of the world’s leading online gambling companies, revolutionising the industry since 2000. Founded by Denise Coates CBE, we now employ over 10,000 people and serve over 120 million customers in 26 languages.

We empower our employees to push boundaries and explore new ideas, cultivating a culture that celebrates and rewards creativity. This offers employees a wealth of growth opportunities, giving them the opportunity to make a real impact in the world of online gambling. As a forward-thinking company, we’re breaking new ground in software innovation too, redefining what’s possible for our global worldwide.

Our focus on In-Play betting has solidified our market-leading position, featuring more than 1.38 million In-Play sporting events a year. With over 750 concurrent sporting fixtures at peak and more live sports streamed than anyone else in Europe (750,000), we handle over 6 million HTTP requests daily and process more than 1.5 million bets per hour at peak.

As a Release Platform Engineer, you will build the automated guardrails that keep our global development pipelines moving safely, transparently, and at speed.

The Regulatory Support team provides the critical infrastructure that allows development teams to ship software with confidence. This team builds and maintains the platforms that automate release approvals and software-change auditing, ensuring every deployment is traceable and compliant.

You will manage our source-code-management estate, including GitLab, Sourcegraph, and supporting services like token rotation. By leveraging Python, Go, React, and TypeScript, you will create in-house applications—from compliance dashboards to automated release engines—that solve complex engineering challenges.

Automation is central to this role. You will identify repetitive tasks and use AI tools to reduce toil, allowing you to focus on strategic improvements. This is a high-impact role where your work directly influences how we deliver software at scale.

This role includes an on-call requirement.

This role is eligible for inclusion in the Company’s hybrid work from home policy.

Requirements

Commercial experience in software engineering, DevOps, or platform roles; Proficiency in scripting and programming languages such as Python or Bash; Strong understanding of version control systems like GitLab and Artifactory; Practical knowledge of Linux and Windows operating systems; Hands-on experience with AI-native engineering, including LLM platforms and prompt engineering; Familiarity with infrastructure as code using Terraform; Experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL and AlloyDB; Frontend development skills using React and TypeScript; Understanding of observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Splunk; Knowledge of security and compliance standards within source-code management