Lead Platform Engineer

About Us:

We are building a robust, scalable trading platform to serve high-traffic, latency-sensitive applications. Our infrastructure leverages state-of-the-art technologies to support real-time trading while providing unparalleled reliability and performance. Join us to shape the future of our platform and engineering culture.

Job Summary:

We are looking for a Lead DevOps & Platform Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and management of our AWS-centric infrastructure. You will play a pivotal role in maximizing the velocity of our product engineering team, ensuring platform scalability, reliability, and security. This is a high-impact role, combining elements of DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). You will champion best practices, shape the engineering culture, and ensure our platform is robust, efficient, and ready for the future.

Key Responsibilities:

• Platform Engineering

  • Infrastructure Design: Architect and implement scalable infrastructure to support the deployment and management of our trading platform.

  • Developer Tooling: Build and maintain internal tools to streamline developer workflows, including advanced CI/CD pipelines.

  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Champion IaC practices using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.

  • Core Services Management: Manage and optimize platform-critical services such as:

    • NATS Cluster

    • RabbitMQ

    • AWS RDS PostgreSQL

    • Redis Cluster

  DevOps

  • Automation and CI/CD: Automate and optimize deployment processes to ensure seamless continuous integration and delivery.

  • Container Orchestration: Manage and scale containerized workloads using Kubernetes and Docker.

  • Cloud Optimization: Monitor and optimize cloud resource usage for performance and cost efficiency.

  Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

  • Reliability Metrics: Define and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs).

  • Monitoring & Observability: Implement observability tools and dashboards (e.g., Prometheus, Datadog, Grafana) for real-time system monitoring.

  • Incident Management: Lead incident response efforts, conduct root cause analysis, and implement actionable postmortem reviews.

  Infrastructure Management

  • AWS Expertise: Architect and manage cloud-based systems to handle high-traffic, latency-sensitive applications.

  • Disaster Recovery: Implement robust disaster recovery and business continuity strategies, including backups and multi-region failover.

  • Security Practices: Collaborate with security teams to enforce best practices for IAM, encryption, and compliance.

  Collaboration & Leadership

  • Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with software engineers to design infrastructure solutions tailored to their application needs.

  • Culture Building: Help shape the engineering culture, promoting a philosophy of security, velocity, and reliability.

  • Mentorship: Mentor junior engineers and document best practices to drive knowledge sharing and operational excellence.

  Long-Term Tech Evolution

  • Backend Transition: Contribute to evolving our backend microservices (currently NodeJS, with some Python and C#) towards Go and Rust.

  • Third-Party Integration: Evaluate and integrate critical third-party software and infrastructure, such as payment gateways and mobility stacks.

  Your Impact:

  1. Simplify infrastructure concerns for product teams to accelerate builds, deployments, and scaling.

  2. Advocate for modern practices like Zero Trust Networking and continuously improve platform architecture.

• Balance the demands of product velocity with a well-managed, secure, and scalable platform.

  Required Skills & Experience:

• Technical Expertise

  • Cloud Experience: 5-8+ years of hands-on experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS, including services like EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, and VPC.

  • Containerization: Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS) or ECS.

  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Strong experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.

  • Programming Skills: Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Go, TypeScript/JavaScript, Ruby, Java).

  DevOps & SRE

  • CI/CD Pipelines: Expertise in building and maintaining CI/CD workflows using tools like GitLab CI, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions.

  • Monitoring Tools: Experience with observability platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Datadog, Grafana).

  • Incident Management: Proven ability to handle incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortem reviews.

  Soft Skills

  • Problem-Solving: Ability to research, design, and deliver solutions to complex infrastructure challenges.

  • Collaboration: Experience working directly with product engineers to improve workflows incrementally.

  • Leadership: Ownership mindset with the ability to mentor team members and advocate for best practices.

    
    Preferred Skills (Nice-to-Have):

  • Familiarity with backend languages like Go or Rust.

  • AWS certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer).

  • Experience with networking concepts (e.g., load balancers, DNS, VPNs) and traffic optimization.

  • Knowledge of emerging CNCF technologies and CI/CD trends.

  What We Offer:

  • Competitive salary with future equity options

  • Opportunities to work with cutting-edge technologies and evolve our platform.

  • Flexible working hours and a remote-friendly environment.

  • Professional growth through certifications, conferences, and internal training.