Taekus
Senior Platform Engineer
1mo ago
175000 –230000 USD / yearUSASeniorRemoteci/cdinfrastructure-as-coderelease-automationfeature-flagplatformtooling
Senior Platform Engineer responsible for owning infrastructure, reliability, and security at a fintech and travel startup.
Responsibilities
- Own and unify the platform and infrastructure that powers our core products and services, driving toward infrastructure-as-code over time.
- Treat our engineers as your customers—build the tooling, paved roads, and self-service workflows that let them ship quickly and safely.
- Own CI/CD and release automation, keeping the path to production fast, reliable, and observable.
- Own feature-flag, configuration, and secrets infrastructure, along with the reliability of our background-job, caching, and queue systems (Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ).
- Improve observability and operational health across services through structured logging, error monitoring, and APM, and share in the on-call rotation for platform and infrastructure services.
- Own the platform's security guardrails—secrets management, IAM and access control, PCI/PII data handling, and vulnerability management.
- Own and automate compliance and audit readiness (PCI-DSS, SOC 2, partner security reviews), coordinating external auditors and making the process repeatable.
Requirements
- 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, with containerization using Docker and Kubernetes, and a track record of building tooling that improves developer experience (Terraform a plus).
- Comfort working in a Python/Django codebase (Celery, Redis, PostgreSQL), able to read and contribute to platform code.
- Experience with modern observability and monitoring tooling across logging, error tracking, and APM.
- A security-minded engineer, ideally with hands-on PCI-DSS or SOC 2 experience.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
Conditions
- Competitive salary and stock option plan
- Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with 5% company match
- Flexible vacation policy
- Fully remote work environment
How to 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.
Other
- Taekus is a profitable fintech and travel startup building a next-generation premium banking and rewards ecosystem for affluent customers. With $70M in annual revenue and $3B+ in annual transaction volume, we're entering a new stage of growth focused on scaling our core banking systems, rewards infrastructure, and partner integrations.
- We're seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own the infrastructure, reliability, and security that everything we build runs on. This is a high-autonomy role for an engineer ready to define a function from the ground up—setting technical direction, taking work from concept through production, and growing into broader technical leadership as we scale.
- Join us as we tackle a $3.2T opportunity to redefine the super-premium financial services and rewards market—driving innovation beyond what's existed since the inception of rewards credit cards
- You want to establish and own a platform from the ground up.
- You'd rather automate security and compliance than grind through them by hand.
- You enjoy contributing across the code base where needed.
- You want to be in a scaling startup that is experiencing exponential growth.
- You're excited by building foundational work and enjoy making an impact.
- Traveling is in your DNA and you get to apply your passion into your work.
- You thrive in growing high-caliber teams and want to influence both technical and strategic direction.
- 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. We currently process $3B+ annually in transactions and operate as a highly profitable company. With a lean team of under 20 employees, we’re undergoing tremendous growth as we redefine the premium banking and rewards experience.