Senior Infrastructure/Platform Engineer

Recruiting From Scratch•San Francisco, CA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

As a Senior Infrastructure/Platform Engineer, you'll own the foundation powering a high-growth financial platform, scaling Kubernetes infrastructure, distributed databases, messaging systems, and cloud-native technologies while solving complex reliability, performance, and scalability challenges. This is a rare opportunity to join a fast-growing FinTech company where you'll define infrastructure strategy, lead critical engineering initiatives, build scalable systems handling massive financial workloads, and directly influence the future of enterprise banking infrastructure.

Requirements

4+ years of infrastructure/platform engineering experience
Experience owning and scaling production infrastructure systems
Experience working at VC-backed startups or fast-paced technology companies
Experience leading large infrastructure initiatives from design through execution
Demonstrated ability to build, operate, and improve high-scale production systems
Experience working in Series A–C startups or high-growth environments
Proven track record of measurable infrastructure improvements and ownership
Ability to operate as a technical leader, not just an individual contributor
Deep expertise with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure platforms
Strong AWS experience, including production-scale cloud architectures
Experience managing Kubernetes clusters, preferably with Amazon EKS
Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi
Experience with distributed systems and large-scale infrastructure
Experience with production databases such as CockroachDB or similar distributed databases
Experience with messaging systems such as Kafka or equivalent event-streaming platforms
Experience with workflow orchestration systems such as Temporal
Experience improving CI/CD systems, deployment pipelines, and developer tooling
Strong understanding of reliability engineering, observability, monitoring, and production operations
Experience solving performance, scalability, and low-latency engineering challenges
Ability to design secure, resilient, and highly available infrastructure systems
Bachelor's degree from a US, Canadian, or European university preferred
Strong technical background in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields
Strong communication skills
High ownership mentality
Excellent collaboration across Engineering and Product teams
Comfortable operating in ambiguity
Self-directed and proactive
Strong technical leadership mindset
Ability to drive infrastructure strategy and influence engineering decisions
Strong problem-solving ability
Customer and business impact oriented
Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment

Responsibilities

Own and scale the core infrastructure foundation powering billions in financial transactions
Design, build, and evolve Kubernetes platforms supporting high-growth production systems
Scale and optimize infrastructure components including Kubernetes, CockroachDB, Kafka, Temporal, and Redis
Build and maintain infrastructure abstractions using Terraform and Pulumi to improve engineering velocity
Improve reliability, observability, security, and performance across the infrastructure stack
Design scalable cloud-native architectures using AWS services including EKS, ALB, WAF, Route 53, S3, and OpenSearch
Solve complex scaling, latency, and performance challenges across high-volume financial systems
Improve CI/CD pipelines to increase deployment speed, reliability, and engineering efficiency
Build infrastructure tooling that enables engineering teams to move faster with confidence
Establish infrastructure best practices and operational standards across engineering teams
Lead technical initiatives from architecture design through production implementation
Partner with engineering teams to improve developer experience, reliability, and system scalability

Benefits

Competitive Equity Package
Visa Sponsorship Available
Direct ownership of critical financial infrastructure
Opportunity to build infrastructure at significant scale
High-impact Senior Infrastructure Engineering role
Exposure to Kubernetes, distributed databases, Kafka, Temporal, and cloud-native technologies
Opportunity to define infrastructure architecture during hypergrowth
Collaborate with experienced engineering leaders
Rapid career growth opportunities
High-performance engineering culture