Platform & Reliability Engineer

Breeze; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary + equity plan

21 days PTO

Annual medical allowance

Productivity budget

Gym membership & wellness subsidy

Annual team retreat trip

Job summary

A fintech startup is seeking a Platform & Reliability Engineer to architect deployment and operation strategies for their universal payment layer. The role requires 5+ years of experience, particularly with GCP and strong coding skills in Python or Go. Ideal candidates will create observability and CI/CD processes in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. Enjoy competitive compensation, benefits, and the chance to shape engineering practices at a rapidly growing company.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building/operating production systems at scale.
• Hands-on fluency with Firebase, Cloud Build, CloudRun/Functions.
• Strong coding in Python or Go with maintainability focus.

Responsibilities

• Define, track, and evangelize latency and availability targets.
• Deploy Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Trace, and dashboards.
• Establish blameless postmortems and runbooks for incident management.

Skills

Production systems experience

Hands-on with GCP

Python or Go coding

Collaboration skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Firebase

Cloud Build

CloudRun

Pub/Sub

Job description

Overview

Are you passionate about solving complex challenges in the fintech space? We’re looking for talented individuals to join our dynamic startup, backed by Sequoia Capital. We’re building the universal payment layer to unify all currencies—fiat and crypto—so businesses and consumers can transact seamlessly. If you're passionate about creating innovative solutions in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, we want to talk to you.

We are hiring a Platform & Reliability Engineer!

As our Platform & Reliability Engineer, you’ll be the architect of how we deploy, scale, and operate our systems to keep payments flowing smoothly. You’ll own the reliability and performance of our platform, from designing SLOs and incident response processes to optimizing costs and developer workflows. As the first platform-focused hire at a fast-growing, Sequoia-backed fintech startup, you’ll have the opportunity to define best practices, shape our engineering culture, and ensure we ship software that is fast, secure, and resilient at scale.

What You’ll Do

• SLOs & error budgets - Define, track, and evangelize latency and availability targets for our payment APIs.
• Observability - Deploy Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Trace, Error Reporting, and dashboards; integrate alerts via Incident.io and Slack for on-call.
• Incident lifecycle - Establish blameless postmortems, guardrails, and runbooks to drive learning and prevent recurrence.
• CI/CD golden path - Codify Cloud Build pipelines and automated canary rollouts for Cloud Functions / Cloud Run.
• Infrastructure as Code - Manage GCP resources; embed security, IAM least-privilege, and cost controls by default.
• Performance & cost tuning - Profile hot paths (BigQuery, Firestore, Pub/Sub), and implement caching or concurrency improvements to keep user latency <100ms.
• Developer tooling - Eliminate toil by improving local-to-prod parity, secrets management, and spinning up environments with a single command.
• Culture carrier - Instill reliability thinking across engineering and product as the first platform-focused hire.

What We’re Looking For

• At least 5+ years of experience building/operating production systems at scale, ideally on GoogleCloud or a similar serverless stack, ideally in fast-paced or startup settings.
• Hands‑on fluency with Firebase, Cloud Build, CloudRun/Functions, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL/Spanner, VPC Service Controls.
• Strong coding in Python or Go for automation, with an eye on maintainability.
• Demonstrated record of driving observability, on‑call and cost optimisation in a fast‑moving environment.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Experience in payments, PCI‑DSS, or crypto settlement flows is a bonus.

Tech note: we are 99% serverless. There are no pet VMs to patch, but the stakes are higher: every cold‑start, DB connection pool and retry policy can impact real money transfers. You’ll architect for resiliency and velocity.

Our Culture

• Fast-paced and dynamic – We’re a growing startup that moves quickly.
• Tech-driven – We leverage technology to address our users’ biggest challenges.
• Ownership and communication – We value people who take full ownership and communicate well across teams.
• Continuous learning – You’ll have the opportunity to work alongside industry experts and enhance your expertise in risk management.

Why Join Us

• Competitive salary + equity plan
• 21 days PTO
• Benefits: annual medical allowance, productivity budget, gym membership & wellness subsidy
• Annual team retreat trip
• Be part of a team backed by Sequoia Capital with a healthy runway

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in platform, reliability, or infrastructure engineering.
• Proficient in GCP, infrastructure as code, and automation scripting.
• Familiar with observability, CI/CD, and modern cloud-native architectures.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Apply now and help us build the future of payments at a global scale!