Senior Platform Engineer

The role

The Senior Platform Engineer will own the infrastructure, reliability, and security for the company's products. This role involves building tooling, CI/CD, and automation, as well as managing security guardrails and compliance.

What you will do

• Own and unify the platform and infrastructure.
• Build tooling, paved roads, and self-service workflows for engineers.
• Own CI/CD and release automation.
• Own feature-flag, configuration, and secrets infrastructure.
• Manage reliability of background-job, caching, and queue systems.
• Improve observability and operational health through logging, error monitoring, and APM.
• Participate in the on-call rotation for platform and infrastructure services.
• Own platform security guardrails including secrets management, IAM, and PCI/PII data handling.
• Automate compliance and audit readiness for PCI-DSS and SOC 2.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of professional engineering experience with a strong platform, infrastructure, or backend focus.
• Deep, hands-on AWS experience (EKS/Kubernetes, EC2, Lambda, RDS) in high-availability production environments.
• Strong CI/CD and release-engineering background.
• Containerization using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Track record of building tooling that improves developer experience.
• Comfort working in a Python/Django codebase (Celery, Redis, PostgreSQL).
• Experience with modern observability and monitoring tooling.
• Security-minded engineer with hands-on PCI-DSS or SOC 2 experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Terraform

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Stock option plan
• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
• 401(k) plan with 5% company match
• Flexible vacation policy

Before you apply

• Candidates must be able to travel to San Francisco, New York, Chicago, or Austin for an onsite interview.
• All required travel will be paid for by Taekus.

About the company

Taekus is a 6-year-old luxury financial services company that offers travel rewards credit cards, debit cards, and other banking services for the affluent market. It is a profitable fintech and travel startup with a lean team of 25 employees.