Platform Engineer

Kikoff • San Francisco, CA

131d

About The Position

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. This is not a 'keep the lights on' operations role. You'll build internal products - self-service tools and automated workflows that make secure, compliant infrastructure invisible to product teams. Your customers are engineers; your metrics are their velocity and our security posture.

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

Nice To Haves

• Fintech or regulated industry experience (SOC 2, PCI-DSS)
• Security automation or compliance tooling
• 0→1 infrastructure building experience
• Data and ML infrastructure or MLOps background

Responsibilities

• 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
• Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability systems
• Build documentation and runbooks that empower teams to self-serve
• Work with product teams to understand friction points
• 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
• Gather feedback, measure adoption, drive improvements
• Partner with engineers and stakeholders to set technical strategy
• Explain technical decisions clearly to non-technical audiences

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees