Senior Platform Engineer

Monzo Bank; London; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the financial technology sector is seeking a Senior Engineer to join their Infrastructure Platform team. The role involves building and managing cloud infrastructure using AWS and GCP, with a focus on Kubernetes and automation. This position offers a competitive salary, stock options, and flexible working arrangements, along with a generous learning budget. The ideal candidate will thrive in a collaborative environment and be eager to tackle complex challenges.

Benefits

Stock Options

Flexible Working Hours

Learning Budget of £1,000

Relocation Assistance

Visa Sponsorship

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS and/or GCP.
• Experience with Kubernetes.
• Experience with strongly typed languages.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS and GCP.
• Support other platform teams in using cloud infrastructure.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters.

Skills

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Automation

Problem Solving

Tools

Go

Terraform

Envoy Proxy

Job description

London / UK Remote | Senior Engineer £95,000 - £130,000 + stock options + Benefits | Technology - Engineering |

About Platform Engineering at Monzo:

The Platform Collective builds and maintains the infrastructure, tools and processes that sets the rest of Monzo technology teams up for success. We work on a wide range of shared infrastructure, services and engineer tooling.

The Infrastructure Platform team sit within the Platform Collective and are responsible for running the Kubernetes clusters which all services which power the bank run on, our service mesh and networking setup and managing how other teams interact with our cloud environments. Our team is made up of backend engineers and cloud infrastructure experts, using our experience and software engineering skills to solve problems and manage our cloud infrastructure.

Our Infrastructure Platform team Has Two Focus Areas

We build and centrally manage the cloud infrastructure that underpins technology at Monzo, running across AWS and GCP we run components like Kubernetes and EnvoyWe help other platform teams to succeed at using cloud infrastructure by abstracting away the complexity and enabling them to solve real customer problems

We’re investing heavily in this team to support Monzo’s ambitions to grow from 10 to 20 million customers, expand the range of products to improve our customers’ financial lives and set up the foundations for scaling Monzo across the globe.

What you’ll be working with:

We rely heavily on the following tools and technologies, please note direct experience in these technologies is not required and our interview process can be completed in any language:

• Go to write our application code (there’s an excellent interactive Go tutorial here), in platform we build services to manage parts of the platform
• Kubernetes most workloads we run are on Kubernetes with this team being responsible for the underlying cluster's management
• AWS and GCP whilst our primary platform is in AWS our footprint in GCP is continually growing and we are increasing our maturity across both of these platforms
• Terraform is primarily how we manage any resources deployed into the cloud
• Envoy Proxy for our RPC service mesh

We’d love to hear from you if…

• You have experience working with AWS and/or GCP
• You have experience working with Kubernetes
• You’d be excited to build a platform that enables success for everyone at Monzo
• You’re comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity
• You’re naturally inclined to solve problems through automation
• You have some experience with strongly typed languages, writing and working on backend software
• You’re curious about systems and diving deep to investigate issues

We're on the look out for L40 & L50 Platform Engineers at the moment, you can read more in our Engineering Progression Framework

The Interview Process:

Our interview process involves three main stages:

1. Initial Call
2. Take home task or pair coding exercise
3. Final interview: including a system design and a behavioural interview

Our average process takes around 4 weeks but we will always work around your availability.

You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process but if you do have any specific questions ahead of this please contact us on [e-mail]

One of our engineers has written a detailed blog on their experience through this process, for extra details, hints and tips please see here.

What’s in it for you:

£95,000 - £130,000 base salary plus stock options

️We can help you relocate to the UK

We can sponsor visas.

This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London).

We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team.

Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences

And much more, see our full list of benefits here

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