Senior Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +2 more locations.

📋 Description

• Spearhead the transition from AWS-managed services and current cloud infrastructure to EKS-based workloads.

• Design and uphold a highly available, low-latency infrastructure on AWS/EKS while considering future portability.

• Oversee cloud resources, load balancers, autoscaling groups, and containerized workloads.

• Ensure cost-effectiveness, resilience, and seamless scaling as trading volumes grow.

• Create and manage infrastructure-as-code for consistent and reproducible deployments.

• Build, maintain, and enhance CI/CD pipelines for swift and reliable deployments.

• Take ownership of monitoring, alerting, and performance visibility across the stack using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.

• Lead initiatives to improve uptime, latency, and fault recovery.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure positions.

• Hands-on experience operating at least one stateful or data infrastructure system in Kubernetes; strong knowledge of Kafka/RedPanda or Postgres preferred; ClickHouse or Flink are also relevant; Spark and Trino/Presto are applicable if the platform was actively managed.

• Extensive experience with AWS and production Kubernetes, particularly EKS; familiarity with ECS is beneficial, but operational experience with Kubernetes is essential.

• Strong expertise in Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools.

• Experience managing CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or Jenkins.

• Comprehensive understanding of networking fundamentals, load balancing, and microservices orchestration.

• Demonstrated capability to design infrastructure for high-throughput, low-latency workloads and high-frequency data systems.

• Experience in tuning cloud and containerized workloads for peak performance.

• Production experience in operating, debugging, upgrading, or managing Kubernetes infrastructure.

• Previous experience with performance-critical web or trading systems.

• Excellent communication skills to facilitate effective cross-functional collaboration.

• Experience working within a mid-sized engineering team.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexibility to work remotely: Enjoy the freedom to work from anywhere on your own schedule.

• Engage in challenging projects utilizing cutting-edge technology in the trading sector.

• Play a significant role in shaping backend systems that power a major trading platform.

• Be part of a collaborative culture that values innovation, efficiency, and teamwork.