AI Native Founding Product and Platform Engineer
~ Full-time

SGS is the world’s leading Testing, Inspection and Certification company. We operate a network of over 2,500 laboratories and business facilities across 115 countries, supported by a team of over 100,000 dedicated professionals. With more than 145 years of service excellence, we combine the precision and accuracy that define Swiss companies to help organizations achieve the highest standards of quality, compliance and sustainability.
Our brand promise – “when you need to be sure” – underscores our commitment to trust, integrity and reliability, enabling businesses to thrive with confidence. We proudly deliver our expert services through the SGS name and a portfolio of trusted specialized brands, including Applied Technical Services, Brightsight, Bluesign and Nutrasource.
As the Founding Product & Platform Engineer, you'll define the architecture, tooling, engineering culture and development practices behind the next generation of SGS digital products. You'll be equally comfortable designing distributed systems, building customer-facing experiences, creating cloud platforms and writing production code.
Build exceptional digital products:
Lead the architecture and delivery of our most ambitious customer-facing solutions, owning everything from frontend experiences to backend services and cloud infrastructure.
Create the tooling,



deployment pathways and reusable building blocks that allow engineers to move quickly, safely and independently.
Own the Full Stack: Design and develop solutions across frontend, backend, cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
Build the Paved Road: Shape our platform (CI/CD, Kubernetes, IaC, observability) so other engineers ship faster and more safely.
Partner with engineers, product leads and designers to raise technical standards and encourage a culture of pragmatic, high-quality delivery.
Full Stack Mastery: Expert‑level React/TypeScript on the frontend, and deep experience building distributed backends in Go, Python, or TypeScript.
Cloud & IaC: Hands‑on, architectural‑level experience with a major cloud (GCP, AWS) and Terraform. You don’t just use it; you architect with it.
Containers & CI/CD: Strong knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD pipelines built from scratch (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).
Observability & Quality: Practical understanding of monitoring, tracing, testing and operational excellence, including tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and Jaeger.
You have 10+ years of experience, with strong backgrounds in both product engineering and platform/SRE work.
Opportunity to work with a general leader in inspection, verification, testing, and certification.
Opportunities for professional growth and development.

📌 Product Engineer, Fullstack (Madrid)
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