Senior Platform Engineer
Senior Platform Engineer
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About Us:
We are building a robust scalable trading platform to serve hightraffic latencysensitive applications. Our infrastructure leverages stateoftheart technologies to support realtime trading while providing unparalleled reliability and performance. Join us to shape the future of our platform and engineering culture.
Job Summary:
We are looking for a Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer to lead the design implementation and management of our AWScentric infrastructure. You will play a pivotal role in maximizing the velocity of our product engineering team ensuring platform scalability reliability and security. This is a highimpact role combining elements of DevOps Platform Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). You will champion best practices shape the engineering culture and ensure our platform is robust efficient and ready for the future.
Key Responsibilities:
Platform Engineering
Infrastructure Design: Architect and implement scalable infrastructure to support the deployment and management of our trading platform.
Developer Tooling: Build and maintain internal tools to streamline developer workflows including advanced CI/CD pipelines.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Champion IaC practices using Terraform CloudFormation or Pulumi.
- Core Services Management: Manage and optimize platformcritical services such as:
NATS Cluster
RabbitMQ
AWS RDS PostgreSQL
Redis Cluster
DevOps
Automation and CI/CD: Automate and optimize deployment processes to ensure seamless continuous integration and delivery.
Container Orchestration: Manage and scale containerized workloads using Kubernetes and Docker.
Cloud Optimization: Monitor and optimize cloud resource usage for performance and cost efficiency.
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Reliability Metrics: Define and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs).
Monitoring & Observability: Implement observability tools and dashboards (e.g. Prometheus Datadog Grafana) for realtime system monitoring.
Incident Management: Lead incident response efforts conduct root cause analysis and implement actionable postmortem reviews.
Infrastructure Management
AWS Expertise: Architect and manage cloudbased systems to handle hightraffic latencysensitive applications.
Disaster Recovery: Implement robust disaster recovery and business continuity strategies including backups and multiregion failover.
Security Practices: Collaborate with security teams to enforce best practices for IAM encryption and compliance.
Collaboration & Leadership
CrossTeam Collaboration: Partner with software engineers to design infrastructure solutions tailored to their application needs.
Culture Building: Help shape the engineering culture promoting a philosophy of security velocity and reliability.
Mentorship: Mentor junior engineers and document best practices to drive knowledge sharing and operational excellence.
LongTerm Tech Evolution
Backend Transition: Contribute to evolving our backend microservices (currently NodeJS with some Python and C#) towards Go and Rust.
ThirdParty Integration: Evaluate and integrate critical thirdparty software and infrastructure such as payment gateways and mobility stacks.
Your Impact:
Simplify infrastructure concerns for product teams to accelerate builds deployments and scaling.
Advocate for modern practices like Zero Trust Networking and continuously improve platform architecture.
Balance the demands of product velocity with a wellmanaged secure and scalable platform.
Required Skills & Experience:
Technical Expertise
Cloud Experience: 58 years of handson experience with cloud platforms particularly AWS including services like EC2 RDS S3 Lambda and VPC.
Containerization: Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS) or ECS.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Strong experience with Terraform CloudFormation or Pulumi.
Programming Skills: Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g. Python Go TypeScript/JavaScript Ruby Java).
DevOps & SRE
CI/CD Pipelines: Expertise in building and maintaining CI/CD workflows using tools like GitLab CI Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
Monitoring Tools: Experience with observability platforms (e.g. Prometheus Datadog Grafana).
Incident Management: Proven ability to handle incident response root cause analysis and postmortem reviews.
Soft Skills
ProblemSolving: Ability to research design and deliver solutions to complex infrastructure challenges.
Collaboration: Experience working directly with product engineers to improve workflows incrementally.
Leadership: Ownership mindset with the ability to mentor team members and advocate for best practices.
Preferred Skills (NicetoHave):
Familiarity with backend languages like Go or Rust.
AWS certifications (e.g. Solutions Architect DevOps Engineer).
Experience with networking concepts (e.g. load balancers DNS VPNs) and traffic optimization.
Knowledge of emerging CNCF technologies and CI/CD trends.
What We Offer:
Competitive salary with future equity options
Opportunities to work with cuttingedge technologies and evolve our platform.
Flexible working hours and a remotefriendly environment.
Professional growth through certifications conferences and internal training.
Collaborative culture focused on innovation and operational excellence.
Employment Type
Full Time
