Senior Platform Engineer
Kikoff•San Francisco, CA
9h•$244,000 - $292,000•Hybrid
About The Position
You'll be one of our first platform engineers building the foundation for our fintech engineering organization as we scale from startup to enterprise-grade operations. This is not a "keep the lights on" operations role. You'll build internal products - self-service tools and automated workflows that make secure, compliant infrastructure invisible to product teams. Your customers are engineers; your metrics are their velocity and our security posture.
Requirements
- 5+ years infrastructure, platform, or DevOps engineering
- Production AWS (EC2, ECS/Fargate, RDS, S3, Lambda, VPC, IAM)
- Infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi or Terraform- we use Pulumi/TypeScript)
- CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)
- Containers (Docker, ECS, or Kubernetes)
- Monitoring tools (Datadog, Prometheus, CloudWatch, or similar)
- Strong coding skills in Ruby, Python, Go, TypeScript, or similar
- Track record building platforms that teams actually adopted
Nice To Haves
- Fintech or regulated industry experience (SOC 2, PCI-DSS)
- Security automation or compliance tooling
- 0→1 infrastructure building experience
- Data and ML infrastructure or MLOps background
Responsibilities
- Build & Automate
- Design self-service infrastructure using AWS (ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda, IAM) and Pulumi/TypeScript
- Create automation that eliminates manual work
- Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for fast, safe deployments
- Enable & Scale
- Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability systems
- Build documentation and runbooks that empower teams to self-serve
- Work with product teams to understand friction points
- Improve & Secure
- Balance fintech compliance requirements with developer experience
- Participate in incident response and postmortems
- Optimize system performance, scalability, and cost
- Implement security controls that satisfy regulatory requirements
- Collaborate
- Treat platform as product: gather feedback, measure adoption, drive improvements
- Partner with engineers and stakeholders to set technical strategy
- Explain technical decisions clearly to non-technical audiences
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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