Platform Engineer

New York, NY. Posted 5 months ago

The role

You will balance high-level architectural design in AWS with low-level backend coding in Go. You will build and maintain core shared libraries, SDKs, and code-generation tools to increase developer leverage.

What you will do

Architect golden paths by building and maintaining core shared libraries, SDKs, and code-generation tools.
Design and optimize cloud infrastructure within the AWS ecosystem.
Debug production performance, tune database parameters, and automate toil.
Treat the platform as a product by embedding with product teams to understand friction points.
Set the standard for observability and improve alerting strategy.
Debug distributed system failures.
Drive technical standards by documenting patterns and writing clear guides.
Mentor engineers on best practices.

Required qualifications

Deep expertise in backend programming.
Significant experience building high-performance backend services or libraries.
Deep cloud fluency.
Experience architecting and managing production workloads on AWS or other clouds.
Knowledge of ECS, RDS, Lambda and data streaming services.
DevEx mindset with a history of building tools that make developers' lives easier.

Benefits

West Village Office with a terrace
Free lunch and dinner
$150 monthly gym stipend
100% company reimbursement for health, dental, and vision coverage

About the company

Moment is the AI operating system for investment management, built for the world's largest wealth firms and fintechs. It was founded by former quants from Citadel and Jane Street and is based in NYC.