Platform Software Engineer
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- We’re looking for a Platform Engineer to define and lead the technical direction of our platform as we scale 10x+ in enterprise customers
- This is a hands-on, high-impact role responsible for architecture, reliability, and developer experience across our Kubernetes-based infrastructure. You will solve hard technical problems, raise the engineering bar through your work, and be a key technical partner to product engineers across the company
- Design and implement scalable solutions within our Kubernetes-based platform for secure enterprise workloads
- Define and contribute to reliability initiatives: SLOs, capacity planning, and resilience improvements
- Identify and resolve system misconfigurations and architectural risks
- Build systems that support 10x customer growth with clear failure modes and mitigation strategies
- Own and continuously improve internal platform systems: deployments, environments, and developer tooling
- Drive improvements to reliability, observability, and operational workflows
- Act as a force multiplier for product engineers by building guardrails (not gates) and self-serve tooling
- Bring structure and rigor to complex infrastructure problems
- Contribute to internal engineering standards and design principles
- Work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and leadership to unblock and accelerate delivery
- Enjoys being a technical owner with broad company impact
- (not just operating clusters, but growing them significantly from early-stage to production-critical workloads)
- Deep understanding of distributed systems tradeoffs
- Strong systems mindset
- Or startup that successfully scaled infrastructure
- Big tech → then startup
- Previously worked in:
- Extensive, production-grade Kubernetes scaling experience
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity
- You thrive in fast-paced environments. You are high-intensity and care a lot about what you do, and you’re ecstatic to work at a startup
- You are ambitious. You have fun solving problems that others think are impossible
- You are collaborative, organized, thoughtful, and kind
- You are curious. You find joy in learning about AI, technology, and finance
- You are an owner. You are autonomous, self-directed, and comfortable working with ambiguity
- Familiarity with banking-level security and data governance
- Experience with single-tenant architectures
- Background in financial services or regulated environments