Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

About This Role

Who Are We❓ We Are Foodics! a leading restaurant management ecosystem and payment tech provider. Founded in 2014 with headquarter in Riyadh and offices across 5 countries, including UAE, Egypt, Jordan and Kuwait. We are currently serving customers and partners in over 35 different countries worldwide. Our innovative products have successfully processed over 6 billion (yes, billion with a B) orders so far! making Foodics one of the most rapidly evolving SaaS companies to ever emerge from the MENA region. Also Foodics has achieved three rounds of funding, with the latest raising $170 million in the largest SaaS funding round in MENA, boosting its innovation capabilities to better serve business owners.

The Job in a Nutshell💡 We are seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to join our high-impact engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for building, scaling, and evolving Foodics' cloud platform and developer infrastructure. You will design and implement platform capabilities that empower engineering teams to deliver faster, safer, and more efficiently, while ensuring reliability, security, and cost optimization at scale.

Your work will focus on enabling self-service infrastructure, standardizing cloud practices, and driving platform excellence across our cloud-native ecosystem supporting millions of transactions daily.

What Will You Do❓ Design and evolve a multi-cloud platform (AWS, OCI, GCP) with reusable infrastructure components.

Build self-service infrastructure & developer platform capabilities (golden paths, templates).

Implement and manage GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Flux) for automated deployments.

Design and operate Kubernetes platforms at scale , including Gateway API / traffic management .

Establish platform-wide observability, monitoring, and logging standards .

Maintain and optimize Linux-based systems across infrastructure.

Collaborate with teams to improve developer experience and delivery speed .

Optimize cloud cost, scalability, and reliability at platform level.

What Are We Looking For❓ Strong experience in multi-cloud (AWS, OCI, GCP) .

Deep expertise in Kubernetes (EKS + advanced networking / Gateway API) .

Hands-on experience with GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux) and CI/CD systems .

Strong Linux administration in production environments.

Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, etc.) .

Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog) .

Solid understanding of cloud networking, security, and distributed systems .

Platform mindset: building tools, not just operating systems .

Who Will Excel❓ Candidates who have built or scaled internal developer platforms or platform engineering functions.

Candidates passionate about improving developer experience and reducing operational overhead.

Candidates with strong collaboration skills across engineering, product, and DevOps teams.

Candidates who think in systems, automation, and long-term scalability.

Candidates that thrive in fast-paced, high-growth SaaS environments and embrace continuous improvement.

What We Offer You❗ We believe you will love working at Foodics!

Highly competitive compensation packages, including bonuses and potential equity.

Annual learning stipend and regular training to accelerate your career.

Exposure to cutting-edge cloud technologies and platform engineering practices.

A truly global team of over 30 nationalities in 14 countries.

Autonomy, challenging goals, and the chance to directly impact the developer experience and platform scalability serving millions.