Platform Engineer - Compute

📋 Job Overview

At Feedzai, we're building a world of safer money. A world where financial institutions move faster than criminals. Where the payments that fund real lives through salaries, savings, and businesses are protected in real time. We use trusted AI to detect and prevent financial crime, fraud, and money laundering at scale: the world's top banks, payment networks, and acquirers trust our technology to safeguard more than one billion consumers and $9 trillion in payment volume every year. Feedzai is a Series D company and has raised $282M to date. With a valuation of $2 billion, our technology protects 1 billion consumers and 90 billion transactions each year.

🏢 About Feedzai

With Cloud at its core, the Engineering (Tech) Team is responsible for all Feedzai product development. Together with Product Management and Data Science, we build the next generation of tools to catch fraud in real-time with a machine learning first approach. Formed by engineers and managed by engineers, at Feedzai, you will find one of the most talented teams out there, from junior to senior engineers. We are fast-paced and provide a safe, open, and collaborative environment that encourages us to lean in, try new things and discover our potential with continuous learning for everyone.

🎯 The Role

The Platform Engineering Compute team is responsible for the overall cloud platform architecture that supports the cloud services provided to our customers and internal developers. As a Professional Platform Engineer you will own meaningful areas of our platform, contribute to design decisions, and help improve our automation and tooling. You'll work with other platform engineers to develop and maintain the systems that support Feedzai's cloud service and enable faster, more nimble product delivery.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Kubernetes Operators and platform services, including deployment, monitoring, and operations.
• Develop in Go or similar languages, following team standards and contributing to best practices.
• Automate cloud infrastructure and incident response; improve self-healing and reliability.
• Develop and refine playbooks, runbooks, and alerting to streamline response procedures.
• Maintain and improve the product deployment pipeline and GitOps practices (e.g. FluxCD, Argo CD).
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and resolution; contribute to post-incident improvements.
• Work with AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Cursor) as part of your daily workflow to ship faster and iterate effectively.
• Maintain and extend Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and platform lifecycle (monitoring, alerting, security, cost, configuration, backup) in production.
• Help improve developer experience and platform capabilities for product teams.

📌 Required Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or the equivalent combination of education, experience, and training.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Java, or similar, with experience building and maintaining systems.
• Hands-on experience with container technologies and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab) and GitOps tools (e.g. FluxCD, Argo CD).
• Experience working with at least one major cloud provider (AWS or GCP) and cloud-native patterns.
• Experience with monitoring and observability (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus).
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, Crossplane) and platform lifecycle management.
• Self-driven, collaborative, and motivated to learn and improve how we build and run the platform.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Comfort with AI-augmented development tools (e.g. Cursor) and willingness to adopt new tooling.
• Kubernetes, cloud, or programming certifications or equivalent are valued.

🎁 Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits package.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Feedzai is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.