Senior Platform Engineer

⚡ Platform Engineer – Payments Infrastructure

🌍 United States, Remote-first

💲 $190k–$230k base + equity

The Company

Storm2’s client is a payments infrastructure FinTech processing billions of dollars in annual transaction volume. Their APIs power real-time transfers, bank debits and card disbursements for FinTech, banking and marketplace businesses, so reliability and compliance are built into the infrastructure rather than bolted on later.

They’re growing a lean infrastructure team and need another engineer who can take meaningful ownership without relying on a mature platform organisation around them.

The Role

Platform engineering gets interesting when a bad infrastructure decision can affect real money moving in real time.

You’ll own significant pieces of the platform underneath the engineering team, from Terraform and environment provisioning through to CI/CD, observability and internal developer tooling. There’s a defined backlog to attack, but not layers of process telling you how to execute it.

This isn’t a role for someone who’s only operated inside a platform that was already mature. They need someone who’s built or materially improved infrastructure themselves, can safely make production changes with a high degree of independence, and likes creating tooling that makes every other engineer faster.

What you’ll be working on:

Owning infrastructure-as-code across networking, IAM, VPCs and environment provisioning, including an ongoing Terraform migration

Hardening CI/CD, secrets management and self-service deployment tooling

Building internal abstractions and tooling that let product engineers ship without becoming infrastructure experts

Expanding observability across service instrumentation, metrics collection, monitoring and alerting

Supporting production cloud infrastructure and reliability across messaging systems

Building tooling around compliance, access controls and infrastructure remediation

Improving developer onboarding, local development workflows, cloud cost visibility and infrastructure documentation

What you’ll bring:

5+ years across platform, infrastructure or backend engineering, with substantial production infrastructure ownership

Strong Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation or comparable infrastructure-as-code experience

Production experience with GCP, AWS or Azure, with GCP particularly relevant

Experience building CI/CD and internal developer tooling, rather than simply using an established platform

Kubernetes, ECS or similar container orchestration experience

Backend engineering ability in a language such as Go, Python or TypeScript

Hands-on knowledge of observability tooling such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus or OpenTelemetry

A strong understanding of IAM, secrets management and secure-by-default infrastructure

Comfort making production infrastructure changes independently in a small engineering team

Where you’ll stand out

Experience in payments, FinTech or another regulated environment will translate particularly well. The same goes for engineers who’ve built compliance-focused platform tooling, worked across GCP and AWS, or supported infrastructure through rapid transaction or engineering-team growth.

The important distinction is ownership. If your experience is mostly maintaining infrastructure someone else designed, this probably isn’t the right one. If you’ve been the engineer improving the platform while product teams are actively depending on it, it probably is.

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