Senior Platform Engineer — AWS Reliability

Own the production foundation for authentication, APIs, payments, monitoring, and releases. The role balances strong security with fast, predictable customer experiences.

Compensation and Benefits

Base salary: $190,000–$260,000 USD, based on experience
Work arrangement: Remote — United States
Experience: 6+ years
Additional compensation: Performance-bonus and equity eligibility based on role and level

About the Role

Own the production foundation for authentication, APIs, payments, monitoring, and releases. The role balances strong security with fast, predictable customer experiences. You will work with a small team, own important decisions, and document your work so that other specialists can review it.

Responsibilities

  • Improve AWS infrastructure, deployment controls, and observability
  • Harden identity, secrets, network boundaries, and audit trails
  • Run capacity, failure, and recovery exercises
  • Reduce cloud cost without hiding reliability risk

Required Qualifications

  • Six or more years in platform, SRE, or cloud security work
  • Strong AWS, infrastructure-as-code, and incident-response experience
  • Experience with Cognito, CloudFront, WAF, Lambda, and API Gateway

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with financial markets, market data, or institutional trading systems.
  • A record of clear written communication and careful review of high-impact work.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision plan options with substantial company support
  • 401(k) plan with company matching
  • Flexible paid time off and company holidays
  • Paid parental and caregiver leave
  • Annual learning, conference, and professional-development budget
  • Remote-work equipment and home-office support
  • Performance-bonus and equity eligibility based on role and level

How to Apply

Submit a current resume through the application form. A short cover letter is optional. We will review your experience and contact qualified candidates about the interview process and next steps.

Job Categories: Software Engineering
Job Types: Full Time
Job Locations: Remote — United States

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