Platform Development Engineer

The Team / Who We Are

We build and operate the infrastructure backbone that powers one of the financial services industry's most demanding SaaS platforms. Our Platform Engineering team sits at the intersection of Dev Ops, private and public cloud infrastructure, and financial technology — ensuring that mission‑critical investment accounting, portfolio analytics, and data connectivity services run with carrier‑grade reliability, 24/7, for over a thousand of the largest hedge funds, asset managers, family offices, insurers and corporations.

We move fast, take ownership, and operate with a low‑ego, high‑output mentality. Engineers here have real impact — not just tickets to close. We've scaled significantly over the last several years, expanding our global footprint, deepening our cloud‑native infrastructure, and modernizing the financial data pipelines that connect our platform to custodians, prime brokers, data vendors, and counter parties. If you want to work on problems that actually matter in Fin Tech — at serious scale — you've found the right team.

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, highly available infrastructure supporting a multi‑tenant financial SaaS platform — including on‑premises systems, hybrid cloud environments (AWS), and co‑location data centers.
• Lead platform automation efforts using infrastructure‑as‑code (IaC) tooling such as Harbor, Terraform, Ansible, or Salt — driving consistency, repeatability, and auditability across all environments.
• Own and evolve our container orchestration strategy — including Kubernetes cluster operations, workload scheduling, resource governance, and service mesh configuration.
• Architect and operate CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation in collaboration with software engineering and release management teams; drive Dev Ops best practices across the SDLC.
• Build and maintain a comprehensive observability stack — including metrics (Prometheus/Grafana), log aggregation (Elastic Stack / Check Mk), and distributed tracing — with a focus on financial platform SLIs ➜ SLOs ➜ OLAs ➜ SLAs.
• Support and optimize financial data connectivity infrastructure, including market data feed handlers, custodian data ingestion pipelines, FIX/SWIFT/SFTP‑based integrations, and third‑party data vendor connectivity.
• Provide Tier2/3 escalation support for platform‑level incidents; lead root cause analysis and drive permanent resolution of systemic reliability issues.
• Perform capacity planning, performance engineering, and infrastructure cost optimization across compute, storage, and network layers.
• Partner with the Security and Compliance teams to ensure infrastructure adherence to SOC2 TypeII, ISO
  27001, and applicable financial industry regulatory requirements.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and vendor solutions; make architectural recommendations grounded in operational maturity and business impact.
• Mentor junior and mid‑level engineers; contribute to team documentation, runbooks, and internal knowledge base standards.

• Required:
  
  7+ years of experience in platform engineering, Linux systems administration, or Dev Ops/SRE roles — with at least 3 years in a financial services or Fin Tech environment.
• Deep, hands‑on expertise with RHEL and Debian‑based Linux distributions (Ubuntu preferred); strong command‑line proficiency and systems‑level diagnostic ability.
• Production‑grade experience with Kubernetes (cluster operations, Helm, RBAC, networking, storage); familiarity with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) is a strong plus.
• Proven infrastructure automation experience using Ansible, Salt, Terraform, or equivalent IaC tooling — not just writing playbooks, but designing automation frameworks.
• Solid experience with CI/CD platforms…