As a Platform Engineer, you will be integral to our platform team, focusing on the infrastructure and tooling that empowers product teams. You'll ensure reliability, scalability, and performance, proactively identifying improvements. This role involves building best practices, driving incident learning, optimizing costs, and partnering with engineering teams on their releases.
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Platform Engineer at VC-backed fintech SaaS
Are you a seasoned Platform Engineer passionate about building robust, scalable infrastructure? Join a dynamic VC-backed fintech SaaS company and play a pivotal role in empowering product teams to deliver high-performance services. This is an exceptional opportunity to drive reliability, optimize critical systems, and shape the future of platform engineering within a fast-growing environment.
Overview
Role overview
Company
About the company
VC-backed fintech SaaS
Responsibilities
What you will do
- Build and iterate on platform tooling and best practices, including SLIs/SLOs, to understand and optimize system performance.
- Drive a culture of post-incident learning and proactive resilience testing across engineering squads.
- Develop and optimize Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and manage deployment pipelines in CircleCI.
Candidate profile
Who this is a fit for
- Possesses 4+ years of hands-on experience in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering roles, particularly with high-traffic services.
- Has deep expertise with Amazon EKS/Kubernetes, RDS/Postgres, and Redis.
- Demonstrates a proven track record in setting SLIs/SLOs, conducting error-budget reviews, and leading incident command.
What makes it remarkable
Why this role is remarkable
- Make a significant impact on the core infrastructure of a high-traffic, user-centric platform.
- Drive a culture of reliability and resilience, shaping platform tooling and best practices from the ground up.
- Work with a modern, robust tech stack including EKS/Kubernetes, Postgres, and Redis within a well-funded company.
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