Software Engineer

We are a newly formed team within KPN with a clear mission: enable engineering teams to deliver high-quality software by providing a paved road with agentic capabilities across the SDLC. We’ve noticed that teams often solve the same problems over and over again. CI pipelines get rebuilt, environments behave inconsistently, tooling is duplicated, and engineers spend valuable time on manual work that should be automated. Frequently, the solution already exists somewhere else in the company it’s just not shared or standardized. Our philosophy is simple: for developers, by developers. Our primary goal is to extend the paved road into an agentic-assisted software lifecycle that will help teams to plan, design, develop, release, and operate software faster, while remaining safe, reliable, and in control. What We’re Looking For We’re looking for a software engineer who builds reliable systems and the community around them. You care about how software is built, make it easier for others to build, and communicate clearly across a wide range of engineering backgrounds. You probably recognise yourself in several of these: · You build backend services in Python and/or Go · You have experience with scalable and asynchronous applications · You’ve run workloads on Kubernetes and AWS; Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) is familiar territory · You value testing and automation — CI pipelines should never be an afterthought · You understand DevOps, platform engineering or developer-experience concepts · You like improving systems used by other engineers, and you talk to those engineers to understand what they actually need · You make technical ideas accessible to people with different backgrounds and levels of experience · You navigate disagreement constructively; when there’s pushback on a direction, you engage with it rather than around it · You’re curious about AI/LLM capabilities and their practical application in engineering workflows · You give and receive feedback comfortably, in code reviews and beyond · You care about usability — internal platforms still have users · You actively contribute to a healthy engineering culture, through mentoring, knowledge sharing, or simply making sure quieter voices get heard This role isn’t for you if: · You prefer to work heads-down and measure success solely by individual output · You treat communication as a status update rather than a core engineering skill. What You’ll Be Working On You will work on internal platform products used by all engineering teams. Examples include: · Designing and implementing agentic capabilities within the SDLC (planning, coding, testing, releases and operations) · Designing and implementing backend APIs powering internal developer tooling · Creating the Agentic Paved Road — safe, standardised ways for teams to adopt AI · Developing and maintaining our prompt library, guardrails and usage guidelines · Measuring and improving engineering productivity · Guiding teams in the adoption and ongoing improvement of the SDLC · Contributing to paved road standards, engineering guidelines and knowledge sharing across the organisation · Improving how teams build and run software · Enabling engineers to use AI effectively Team & Collaboration You’ll work closely with: · Platform Engineering · DevEx · Security · Architecture · Application teams across the company We strongly believe enablement teams must stay connected to engineers. We work together in our Amsterdam office on Mondays and Thursdays. What We Offer · Impact every engineering team in the company · Work at the intersection of platform engineering, DevEx, and applied AI · Build systems that change how software is built · Help introduce AI in a responsible, non-hype, engineering-driven way · Instead of shipping features to customers, you’ll be shipping capability to engineers