Platform Engineer
Stories have the power to make the ordinary extraordinary. They help us think bigger, see beyond ourselves, and deepen our connection with others.
As one of the world’s leading audiobook and e-book streaming platforms, Storytel brings unlimited listening to millions of users across 25 markets. We bring stories to life across various formats for everyone to discover. Anytime. Anywhere.
Ready for your next chapter? Our Platform Engineering team is on the lookout for another colleague in Stockholm!
About the Team
The Platform Engineering team focuses on setting up, operating and redefining observability, infrastructure, CI/CD, runtime tooling and common shared services at Storytel. We apply software engineering principles to accelerate software delivery and ensure that application development teams are productive in all aspects of the software delivery lifecycle.
Our team’s expertise is very diverse, ranging from cloud infrastructure to security to development and machine learning tools and services.
About the Role
At Storytel, Engineers are viewed as leaders within the individual contributor roles, aiming to create impact and drive initiatives to bring our audio entertainment service to millions of users.
You’ll be part of an engineering team that works with cutting-edge technologies alongside experienced colleagues. Your main tasks will be designing, building and maintaining toolchains and workflows that help our teams manage the full life-cycle of their systems. This includes:
Building tools, libraries for our common languages, templates, automation, and configurations.
Working with observability, deployment pipelines, quality assurance, availability, machine learning and more.
Guiding developers in their daily work on how they best utilize the tools provided by the team.
Working with different technologies, including ArgoCD, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Grafana, Prometheus, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Atlantis), Fastly, Airflow and more.
About You
To be successful in this role, we believe that you have:
At least 3 years of experience as a software engineer, platform engineer, or equivalent. You’re experienced in developing in Java or Go.
Experience and a keen interest in working in the Developer Experience (DevEx) area. For example, deployment pipelines, observability & monitoring, quality assurance, automation, self-service, and runtime platforms.
Experience working with container technologies, Kubernetes, and distributed systems.
Experience working with Cloud Service Providers - Google Cloud Platform, Azure or AWS.
Ability to communicate professionally in English (written and spoken).
And for some bonus points, you have experience or a keen interest in:
Working with Databases - MySQL, Postgres, etc.
Infrastructure-as-code and configuration management.
Basic knowledge of Linux/Unix operating systems.
Machine learning tools and services.
Join a world of stories
At Storytel, we’re a team of creative story lovers who thrive on collaboration and new ideas. Our workplace is friendly, dynamic, and full of opportunities to experiment and make an impact. We believe in trust, flat hierarchies, and empowering you to grow with us.
Does this sound like your next story? Simply fill out the application form and share your CV or LinkedIn profile – no cover letter needed. Answer a few questions, and you’re all set.
Due to summer vacations, the response time for this hiring process will be longer than usual. Thank you for your patience!

Stockholm
Workplace
The Storytel culture in 3 words?
Trusting, Collaborative, Innovative.
Number of orange headphones?
Thousands.
Times we celebrate?
Whenever we have something to celebrate. It could be the launch of a Storytel Original, a great cross functional collaboration or a housewarming party. We like to celebrate - preferably with cake.
About Storytel
Storytel is one of the world’s leading audiobook and ebook streaming services and offers unlimited listening. Storytel is a digital platform provider as well as a comprehensive publishing group. The streaming business area offers subscriptions for audiobooks and e-books under the Storytel and Mofibo brands. Storytel’s publishing business area is carried out through the publishing houses Norstedts, Massolit, StorySide, Printz Publishing, People’s Press, Rabén & Sjögren, B.Wahlströms, Gummerus, Lind & CO and more.
Storytel operates in 25+ markets around the globe and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.
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