Hybrid Platform Engineer

Posted 3 weeks ago

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About the role

  • 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.
  • 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.

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.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage - Kikoff covers the full cost of health insurance for the employee!
  • Visa sponsorship available: Kikoff is willing to provide sponsorship for H1-B visas and U.S. green cards for exceptional talent.

Job title

Platform Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$160,000 - $260,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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