Senior Platform Engineer, Kikoff

• We value extreme ownership, clear communication, a strong sense of craftsmanship, and the desire to create lasting work and work relationships
• 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

Desirable

• This is a consumer fintech startup, and you will be working with serial entrepreneurs who have built strong consumer brands and innovative products
• Yes, you can build an exciting business AND have real-life real-customer impact
• 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
• You'll 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
• Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability systems
• Build documentation and runbooks that empower teams to self-serve
• Work with product teams to understand friction points
• 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
• 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
• Specialization Areas
• During interviews, we'll discuss your focus area. All roles are 70% specialty, 30% general platform work
• Security & Compliance: Secure architectures, IAM systems, security automation, SOC 2/PCI-DSS frameworks, audit preparation
• Site Reliability: Observability platforms, intelligent alerting, SLOs/error budgets, disaster recovery, performance optimization
• Developer Experience: Self-service provisioning, CI/CD optimization, internal platforms, reusable infrastructure patterns