Platform Engineer

The role

This founding Platform Engineer will build the foundation for the platform and own critical systems. You will define how the company operates infrastructure, releases software, and approaches security.

What you will do

• Own and evolve the reliability posture of the ModernFi network
• Lead the buildout of an advanced release pipeline
• Take ownership of the cloud platform, Pulumi modules, AWS account structure, identity, and networking
• Drive security and compliance posture including Vanta remediation and SOC 1/2 readiness
• Upgrade on-call tooling, runbooks, rotations, and postmortems
• Participate in the infrastructure on-call rotation
• Partner with product engineering pods to ship abstractions
• Cultivate a culture of operational excellence through code reviews, design discussions, and mentorship

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Significant time spent on infrastructure, platform, or reliability-focused work in a production environment
• Deep fluency with cloud infrastructure (ideally AWS)
• Deep fluency with infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi, Terraform, or similar)
• Deep fluency with modern CI/CD pipelines
• Hands-on experience with a modern observability stack (Datadog, Prometheus + Grafana, the Elastic stack, or equivalent)
• Track record of setting observability and monitoring standards
• Experience defining SLOs, running postmortems, and improving on-call experiences
• Comfortable owning systems end-to-end
• Experience working in or alongside small, fast-moving engineering teams
• Excellent communication skills

Nice to have

• Familiarity with frameworks such as SOC 2
• Familiarity with compliance tooling such as Vanta
• Familiarity with concepts such as secrets management, key rotation, and least-privilege access

Benefits

• Top-of-market comp
• Equity from day one
• Health, dental, vision. 100% employee covered
• 401(k) with a broad fund selection
• Unlimited PTO
• Fully paid parental leave
• $100 monthly wellness stipend
• Dinner in the office
• Relocation to New York
• Uncapped equipment
• Quarterly team outings

About the company

ModernFi aims to serve as systemically important financial infrastructure to drive the American economy. The team values competence, drive, and respect.