Senior Platform Engineer

What you’ll do

• Design and implement scalable and secure infrastructure on AWS, ensuring high availability and reliability of our platform.
• Develop and maintain distributed systems, with a focus on performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.
• Collaborate with the engineering team (including our support engineers) to build and improve our internal platform, with a focus on automation, monitoring, and logging.
• Work with Kubernetes to manage and orchestrate containerized applications, ensuring efficient resource utilization and high availability.
• Participate in the development of our platform roadmap, ensuring that our technology stack aligns with our business goals and objectives.
• Ensure that our platform is secure, compliant, and meets all relevant regulatory requirements.
• Partner with the engineering team to identify and prioritize platform improvements, and to develop and implement solutions to address these needs.
• Own the end-to-end platform development process, from design to delivery, ensuring that our platform meets the needs of our engineers and the company as a whole.

What you’ll bring

• 5+ years of experience in a platform engineering role, with a focus on distributed systems, AWS, and Kubernetes.
• Strong experience with agentic coding and platform development, with a focus on building scalable and secure systems.
• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure, including AWS (what we use), and a strong understanding of cloud security and compliance.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration, using tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proven experience in designing, implementing, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines, ideally with GitHub Actions.
• In-depth experience with distributed systems, including design patterns, scalability, and fault tolerance.
• A strong focus on automation, with experience using IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools, such as Datadog (what we use), New Relic, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar.
• A proactive mindset with the ability to solve complex problems, drive projects independently, and continuously innovate our reliability practices.
• Strong communication skills, especially in English, to collaborate effectively across technical teams and stakeholders.

Nice to haves

• Experience in the FinTech or payments industry; startup or scale-up environments preferred.
• AWS certification, demonstrating commitment to learning and mastering cloud technologies.
• Experience with SOC2 compliance, CI security validations, and other infrastructure security aspects.
• Experience with cloud-based security and compliance, including AWS security and compliance frameworks.
• Comfort working in fast-paced, dynamic, and high-impact environments.