Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Goliath Partners is working with a profitable, high-growth fintech company operating at significant scale across financial services and consumer rewards. The Senior Platform Engineer will own and evolve platform infrastructure, internal developer tooling, CI/CD, observability, reliability, and security while supporting compliance and the company's continued growth.
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture and evolution of the platform infrastructure supporting core applications and services, with a long-term focus on infrastructure-as-code and automation
- Build internal developer platforms, tooling, and self-service capabilities that enable engineering teams to deploy and operate services efficiently and reliably
- Drive CI/CD pipelines and release engineering, improving deployment velocity, reliability, and production visibility
- Manage critical platform services including feature flags, application configuration, secrets, background processing, caching, and messaging infrastructure across Celery, Redis, and RabbitMQ
- Strengthen system observability through centralized logging, error tracking, APM, and operational monitoring while participating in an on-call rotation for infrastructure and platform systems
- Establish and maintain security controls across the platform, including IAM, secrets management, access policies, PCI/PII protections, and vulnerability remediation
- Lead automation around security compliance and audit preparation, including PCI-DSS, SOC 2, and partner security assessments, while working directly with external auditors and security stakeholders
Skills
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, particularly within platform engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, or backend environments
- Extensive hands-on experience with AWS, including EKS/Kubernetes, EC2, Lambda, and RDS, ideally supporting highly available production systems
- Strong background in deployment automation, CI/CD, release engineering, Docker, and Kubernetes, with experience creating internal tools and infrastructure that improve engineering productivity
- Ability to work comfortably within Python/Django environments and contribute to systems involving Celery, Redis, and PostgreSQL
- Experience implementing observability solutions spanning application logging, error monitoring, performance monitoring, and APM
- Strong understanding of infrastructure security and experience working with compliance frameworks such as PCI-DSS and/or SOC 2
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience from a top 10 school in the United States
- Terraform experience is a plus
Benefits
- Equity
- Remote work
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