Senior Real-Time Platform Engineer - Fintech Infra

Scalable Capital GmbH; Wien; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PRIME+ Broker subscription

Urban Sports Club

Education Budget

Flexible vacation policy

Job summary

Scalable Capital GmbH in Vienna is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to build and run the infrastructure behind real-time trading systems. You will own cloud and on-premises environments, optimize for tail latency, and ensure reliability across AWS, Linux hosts, and container runtimes.

This role emphasizes performance-sensitive workloads, IaC, secure access, and close collaboration with software engineers to raise production readiness and observability.

Qualifications

• University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical background.
• Experience with dedicated host strategies and low-latency networking.
• Proven track record owning production infrastructure for distributed or real-time systems.
• Hands-on AWS experience (EC2, VPC, IAM, KMS, S3, SQS, SNS).
• Strong Linux and container runtime knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Own infrastructure end to end across cloud and physical environments, including AWS, Linux hosts, networking, containers, and runtime operations.
• Design and improve infrastructure for performance-sensitive services, supported by benchmarks covering latency metrics.
• Design, operate, and troubleshoot critical network paths across VPCs, routing, security groups, load balancers, DNS, private connectivity, and service-to-service communication.
• Build and improve infrastructure as code, host lifecycle management, and deployment workflows across development, staging, and production.
• Improve reliability, failover, recovery, and operational safety across Linux-based runtimes, containers, serverless workloads, event-driven flows, and scheduled processing.
• Harden platform capabilities around IAM, KMS, secrets, service connectivity, and secure operational access.
• Raise the standard of observability through dashboards, alerting, tracing, health checks, readiness checks, and incident tooling.
• Partner with software engineers on reusable infrastructure patterns, production readiness, CI/CD, and incident response.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Clear communication

Pragmatic decision-making

Collaborative

Education

University degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Linux

Containers

Networking

Observability

Job description

Scalable Capital GmbH in Vienna is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to build and run the infrastructure behind real-time trading systems. You will own cloud and on-premises environments, optimize for tail latency, and ensure reliability across AWS, Linux hosts, and container runtimes.

This role emphasizes performance-sensitive workloads, IaC, secure access, and close collaboration with software engineers to raise production readiness and observability.