Senior Platform Engineer

The role

You will build and own core infrastructure and tooling including Terraform, CI/CD, and environment provisioning. You will work on infrastructure-as-code, deploy tooling, and observability to support product engineers.

What you will do

• Own pieces of core platform infrastructure including Terraform migration, CI/CD pipelines, and environment provisioning
• Build and maintain tooling and abstractions for product engineers
• Advance observability foundation and build metrics collection pipelines
• Standardize monitoring and alerting
• Harden CI/CD pipelines including secrets migration and self-service deployment tooling
• Support GCP infrastructure work including dead-letter queue handling and messaging system reliability
• Help build compliance remediation tooling, local dev/onboarding tooling, GCP cost visibility, and infra architecture documentation
• Operate independently on production infrastructure changes

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in a platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or backend engineering role with significant infrastructure ownership
• Experience building or significantly maturing internal developer tooling, CI/CD systems, or service platforms
• Experience operating in a startup or small-team environment
• Direct experience with cloud infrastructure in production, including infrastructure-as-code
• Track record of partnering closely with product engineering teams
• Comfort operating independently on production infra (Terraform, IAM, CI/CD)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Strong proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi)
• Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS, or similar) and building CI/CD pipelines from the ground up
• Solid backend engineering skills in at least one production language (e.g., Go, Python, TypeScript/Node)
• Experience designing and maintaining internal APIs and service abstractions
• Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g., Datadog, Grafana/Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)

Nice to have

• Prior experience in fintech, payments, banking-as-a-service, or another regulated industry
• Experience building platform tooling that supports compliance requirements
• Experience with GCP specifically, and with cross-cloud (GCP/AWS) infrastructure work
• Familiarity with database platform work
• Experience scaling internal platforms through a period of rapid engineering team or transaction growth

Benefits

• Competitive compensation with equity
• Remote-first culture with flexible working arrangements
• Professional growth opportunities in compliance and risk management

Before you apply

• Hiring only within the U.S.

About the company

Astra is building mission-critical infrastructure for moving money at scale. The platform processes billions in annual transaction volume with 99.9%+ uptime.