Staff Platform Engineer

Are you passionate about building highly scalable infrastructure? Join us in building the next generation of trading platforms that will enable investors of all levels to fulfill their financial goals. 

We’re seeking an innovative, passionate, and forward-thinking individual to join us as a Staff Platform Engineer.  This is an opportunity to join a fast-paced team with the urgency of a startup and expertise of an established organization. Due to the space we innovate in, your products will process billions of transactions per day in real-time and power both startup and established industry participants. 

Duties/Responsibilities

Platform Design & Architecture

• Design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant cloud platform infrastructure that meets the needs of , adhering to industry best practices and regulatory requirements.

• Collaborate with engineering, security, and operational teams to streamline platform architecture and system dependencies.

• Conduct performance and scalability assessments to identify areas for optimization.

Platform Development & Maintenance

• Build, maintain, and enhance core platform services, ensuring stability, reliability, and compliance.

• Develop and support automation tools and frameworks for provisioning, monitoring, and scaling of infrastructure.

• Lead the adoption and implementation of cloud-native technologies and containerized architecture.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Mentor a team of engineers to share knowledge, elevate technical expertise, and foster a culture of collaboration and innovation.

• Participate in strategic technical decision-making to align technology investments with business objectives.

• Act as a technical stakeholder for evaluating vendor solutions, tools, and frameworks.

Education and/or Experience

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or similar field (or equivalent work experience) required

• 8+ years of prior work experience

• Experience and/or passion with – Financial Markets, Execution Platforms, Foreign Exchange, Cryptocurrency, Digital Assets 

Required/Skills Abilities

• Strong proficiency in communication and project management at all levels 

• Strong proficiency and in-depth understanding of infrastructure architecture and design patterns 

• Strong proficiency and in-depth understanding of GCP, AWS, and/or Azure concepts and implementation, GCP preferred 

• Strong proficiency and in-depth understanding of Kubernetes, GKE preferred 

• Strong proficiency and in-depth understanding of database platforms such as Postgres and BigQuery 

• Strong proficiency and in-depth understanding of Infrastructure-as-code tools, such as Terraform, Terragrunt, Pulumi, Crossplane, Ansible,and Puppet 

• Strong proficiency and in-depth understanding of Observability platforms, Datadog preferred 

• Strong proficiency and in-depth understanding of CI/CD tools, such as GitHub Actions 

• Strong proficiency and in-depth understanding of workload optimization for cloud-native applications 

• Strong proficiency and in-depth understanding of programming languages and concepts, preferably Python, Go, or Java 

• Strong proficiency and in-depth understanding of security concepts for infrastructure and application security 

• Commitment to code quality, peer reviews and strong engineering practices 

• Ability to learn new and unfamiliar technologies quickly, as required 

• Self-starter with 'whatever it takes' attitude in a dynamic work environment 

Work Environment

• This job operates in a hybrid environment, 3 days in office, 2 days and can be based full time out of either of our Austin, Chicago, or Dallas offices.

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