Senior Platform Engineer

Overview As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will own and evolve our core infrastructure and internal developer platform to accelerate product delivery while meeting fintech compliance. You’ll work with engineering, security, and product teams to drive automation, observability, and platform roadmaps in a fast-moving startup. This role offers hybrid work from LA or NY, with a strong impact on reliability, security, and developer experience. You’ll shape scalable cloud platforms and CI/CD capabilities to support rapid, compliant fintech workflows. Compensation / BenefitsMedical, Dental, and Vision401(k)Equity OpportunityHybrid Work EnvironmentProfessional Development Opportunities ResponsibilitiesDesign, build, and operate cloud infrastructure and internal platform components to support production services, developer workflows, and CI/CD pipelinesImplement and maintain infrastructure-as-code, automation, and configuration management (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible)Build and operate Kubernetes-based container platforms, including upgrades, scaling, and multi-tenant patternsOwn and improve pipeline reliability and developer experience for CI/CDInstrument observability and alerting (metrics, logging, tracing) and lead incident response, RCA and post-mortemsCollaborate with security, compliance, and legal teams to ensure platform controls meet fintech standards (PCI, SOC2, GDPR) and automate compliance checksDrive cost optimization, capacity planning, and performance tuning across cloud and platform servicesCollaborate with product and engineering teams to onboard services to the platform, provide mentoring, best practices and runbooksDefine and execute platform roadmap with a focus on developer productivity, reliability, and security Key requirements5+ years of hands-on experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, or DevOps; startup experienceProven experience with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and designing resilient cloud architecturesStrong expertise with infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform, CloudFormation) and configuration managementDeep experience operating Kubernetes and container ecosystems, plus CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)Solid background in observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, distributed tracing) and incident managementPractical knowledge of security and compliance frameworks relevant to fintech (PCI, SOC2, GDPR) and experience implementing controls and auditsExperience in startups or high-growth environments with strong cross-functional communicationBachelor in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experiencecross-functional collaborationmentoring and knowledge sharinghands-on, pragmatic approachTerraformCloudFormationAnsible