Senior Platform Engineer

Job Overview

We are building a robust, scalable trading platform to serve high-traffic, latency-sensitive applications. Our infrastructure leverages state-of-the-art technologies to support real-time trading while providing unparalleled reliability and performance. Join us to shape the future of our platform and engineering culture.

Key Responsibilities

• Platform Engineering: 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 platform-critical 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): 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 real-time system monitoring.


• Incident Management: Lead incident response efforts, conduct root cause analysis, and implement actionable postmortem reviews.


• Infrastructure Management: Architect and manage cloud-based systems to handle high-traffic, latency-sensitive applications.


• Disaster Recovery: Implement robust disaster recovery and business continuity strategies, including backups and multi-region failover.


• Security Practices: Collaborate with security teams to enforce best practices for IAM, encryption, and compliance.


• Collaboration & Leadership: 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.


• Long-Term Tech Evolution: Contribute to evolving our backend microservices (currently NodeJS, with some Python and C#) towards Go and Rust.


• Third-Party Integration: Evaluate and integrate critical third-party software and infrastructure, such as payment gateways and mobility stacks.

Required Skills & Experience

• Technical Expertise: 5-8+ years of hands-on 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: 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: 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 (Nice-to-Have)

• 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 cutting-edge technologies and evolve our platform.
Flexible working hours and a remote-friendly environment.
Professional growth through certifications, conferences, and internal training.