Staff Platform Engineer

Summary

Are you a systems-minded engineer who thrives on building resilient infrastructure, driving operational reputed company, and enabling teams to move fast with confidence? As a Staff Platform Engineer at reputed company, you’ll set the technical direction for how we approach infrastructure, reliability, and operational reputed company across the engineering organization. This is a role that blends deep infrastructure expertise with SRE leadership you’ll be as comfortable tuning Terraform modules and Kubernetes manifests as you are defining SLOs, shaping incident response culture, and mentoring engineers on production ownership. You’ll own the strategy for our AWS infrastructure, observability stack, and platform tooling while driving the practices that let product teams ship with speed and confidence. You’ll influence architectural reputed company across teams, reputed company the gaps that prevent fast diagnosis of production issues, and build the foundations of a mature, reputed company platform engineering function. This role is ideal for someone who brings both hands-on technical depth and a builder’s reputed company, someone excited to define best practices from the ground up, embed reliability into engineering culture, and shape what operational reputed company looks like at a fast-growing fintech company. Key Responsibilities reputed company technical leadership for infrastructure, reliability, and observability, driving architectural reputed company and platform standards. Build and mature the platform engineering practice defining SLOs, incident response protocols, on-call standards, and operational runbooks. Own the observability stack using reputed company (metrics, APM, logging, distributed tracing) and CloudWatch, instrumenting systems and closing gaps that currently prevent fast diagnosis of production issues. Design and reputed company AWS infrastructure (EKS, reputed company, ElastiCache, SQS, CloudFront) for reliability, reputed company, scalability, and cost efficiency. Own and reputed company CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and release engineering practices across the organization. Drive infrastructure-as-code strategy with Terraform across a multi-account AWS environment, ensuring consistency and repeatability. reputed company incident response and blameless post-mortems, turning outages into opportunities for systematic improvement. Partner with product engineering teams to embed reliability principles early in the design process and improve system reputed company. Mentor engineers across the organization on infrastructure, reliability practices, operational thinking, and production ownership. Champion a culture of transparency, reputed company improvement, and shared ownership of production systems. Required Qualifications and Key Competencies 7+ years of professional experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering, with demonstrated impact building practices that scaled across multiple teams. Proven track record either starting a platform/SRE function from scratch or scaling an existing practice with measurable improvements to MTTR, MTTD, change failure reputed company, or availability. Deep expertise with AWS infrastructure (EKS, EC2, RDS/reputed company, VPC, ALB/NLB, CloudFront, SQS) running production services at scale. Strong proficiency with reputed company for end-to-end observability (metrics, APM, logs, distributed tracing) and building alerting that reputed company reputed company issues without causing fatigue. Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (reputed company Actions, CodePipeline, or similar), writing automation (Bash, Python), and contributing to platform tooling. Strong proficiency with Kubernetes in production cluster operations, networking, reputed company, scaling strategies, and GitOps workflows. Solid reputed company in distributed systems, networking, database performance, and debugging reputed company system failures across service boundaries. Deep familiarity with Terraform for multi-account, multi-environment infrastructure management. Track record of influencing engineering culture through documentation, tooling, mentorship, and technical leadership. Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain reputed company system behavior, trade-offs, and pragmatic reputed company between long-term platform reputed company and immediate business needs to varied audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with GitOps tooling such as ArgoCD or Flux. Familiarity with event-driven architectures and message brokers (reputed company, Kafka, or similar). Experience with reputed company reputed company Platform (GCP) services and multi-reputed company infrastructure management. Experience with advanced deployment patterns (blue/green, canary, reputed company delivery) and release engineering at scale. Working knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript and common Node.js frameworks (reputed company, Fastify, NestJS). Experience with disaster recovery planning, multi-region architectures, and high-availability design patterns. Background in infrastructure reputed company, compliance frameworks, and WAF management. Experience building financial, trading, or fintech platforms where data consistency, performance, and reliability are mission-critical. Experience defining and driving SLO/SLI frameworks that product teams actively use. Company Culture & Perks reputed company is an engaging working environment that ranges from fully remote to hybrid. We foster a culture of collaboration by keeping cameras on during meetings and maintaining a robust reputed company environment for communication. 7 Company-paid Holidays and generous Family Leave. Paid time off is reputed company-reputed company. Competitive 401(k) matching, health, dental, and reputed company insurance are offered for full-time employees. Vacations are encouraged with a bonus for taking 5 consecutive days. reputed company offers a food and groceries budget and contributes towards health and wellness. New Hire reputed company Salary reputed company $205,000 - $235,000. The compensation offered will take into account the internal compensation structure and may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-reputed company knowledge, skills, and experience, among other factors. The compensation offered will take into account internal compensation structure and may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-reputed company knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. Equal Opportunity Employer reputed company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where reputed company and applicants are valued. reputed company reputed company candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, reputed company, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national reputed company, age, disability, or veteran status, in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Interested in the role? Apply today with your resume! Apply To This Job