# Senior Platform Engineer

**Company:** [Astra](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/astra)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $190k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Terraform, GCP, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, ECS, CI/CD, Go, Python, TypeScript, Node.js, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry
**Posted:** 2026-09-09

> Build and operate core platform infrastructure, developer tooling, CI/CD, observability, and cloud reliability systems for a regulated payments platform. Requires 5+ years of infrastructure or backend experience, strong infrastructure-as-code skills, and production cloud expertise.

## Job Description

## 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.

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