Senior Platform Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own core platform infrastructure, including Terraform migration across VPC, IAM, and networking.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, environment provisioning, deployment tooling, and developer abstractions.
• Advance observability through service instrumentation and metrics collection pipelines.
• Standardize monitoring and alerting for business, financial operations, and synthetic monitoring metrics.
• Harden CI/CD systems, including secrets migration and self-service deployment tooling.
• Support GCP infrastructure and messaging reliability work, including dead-letter queue handling.
• Develop compliance remediation tools, local development and onboarding tooling, GCP cost visibility, and infrastructure documentation.
• Operate independently on production infrastructure changes involving Terraform, IAM, and CI/CD.
• Partner closely with product engineering teams to unblock development.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or backend engineering with significant infrastructure ownership.
• Experience building or substantially maturing internal developer tooling, CI/CD systems, or service platforms.
• Experience working in a startup or small-team environment with meaningful infrastructure ownership.
• Production experience with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code; GCP preferred, with AWS or Azure also relevant.
• Experience partnering with product engineering teams and independently operating production infrastructure.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
• Experience with container orchestration and building CI/CD pipelines.
• Backend engineering proficiency in Go, Python, TypeScript, or Node.js.
• Experience designing and maintaining internal APIs and service abstractions.
• Familiarity with observability tools and reliability practices.
• Understanding of secrets management, access control, and secure-by-default infrastructure.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience in fintech, payments, banking-as-a-service, or another regulated industry.
• Experience building platform tooling for audit logging, data retention, access controls, and other compliance requirements.
• GCP-specific and cross-cloud GCP/AWS infrastructure experience.
• Familiarity with database platform work, including provisioning, migration tooling, backups, and replication.
• Experience scaling internal platforms during rapid engineering-team or transaction growth.

Compensation and Benefits

• $190,000–$230,000 annual compensation, plus equity.
• Remote-first culture with flexible working arrangements.
• Professional growth opportunities in compliance and risk management.