Senior Platform Engineer (DevOps) Singapore

Finn; Singapore; Remote; SGD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Equity

Competitive salary

Job summary

FINN is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to scale cloud infrastructure across Southeast Asia and Africa. You will own platform-level systems, drive IaC, CI/CD, observability, and security tooling in a high-growth fintech environment.

Join a small, autonomous Platform squad and help accelerate multi-market launches with a modern stack and remote-friendly culture. Overlap with UTC+8 is expected; competitive equity awaits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering role.
• Strong cloud infrastructure expertise — compute, networking, identity management, queuing, monitoring, storage, and databases (AWS).
• Container orchestration in production — cluster operations, package management, debugging, resource management (Kubernetes).
• Infrastructure-as-Code at scale — writing, reviewing, managing IaC with proper state management and modularization (Terraform).
• CI/CD pipeline design — deployment automation, testing integration, and deployment strategies (blue-green, canary).
• Linux systems administration — comfortable debugging at the OS level.
• Monitoring and observability — setting up alerting, dashboards, log aggregation, and incident response.
• Security mindset — access control, network security, secrets management.
• Strong communication — explain infra decisions to non-infra engineers.
• Reliable internet and hardware, overlap with UTC+8 (Singapore time).

Responsibilities

• Own and operate cloud infrastructure — compute, networking, identity, and security controls — using Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Manage container orchestration workloads, including cluster upgrades, deployment management, and autoscaling.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines — automated testing, deployment automation, and quality gates.
• Drive observability — implement and improve monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing across all services.
• Harden security posture — cloud security posture management, automated scanning in CI, access policies, network security, and contributing toward industry security certifications.
• Operate messaging infrastructure — event‑driven architectures, including retry strategies and dead‑letter queue management.
• Standardize market launches — build repeatable infrastructure provisioning so new markets can go live in days, not weeks.
• Support the engineering team — be the go‑to person for infrastructure questions, unblock developers, and create self‑service tooling.
• Participate in on‑call rotation — respond to production incidents and drive root‑cause analysis and prevention.

Skills

DevOps

Cloud infra

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Linux

Observability

Security mindset

Communication

UTC+8 overlap

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Grafana

CloudWatch

SQS

Kafka

Job description

Are you ready to shape the financial future of a rapidly growing fintech that's transforming lives across Southeast Asia and beyond?

We're not your typical company — we're a rocketship! At FINN, established in 2022 by experienced serial founders, we're on a mission to transform financial well-being for underbanked employees. Our product provides early wage access, financial education, budgeting tools, part-time job opportunities, and micro-insurances. We’ve hit product-market fit and are scaling aggressively across multiple markets.

The Role

We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our small, growing Platform team and help scale our infrastructure across multiple markets. This is a hands‑on, high‑impact role where you’ll own critical cloud infrastructure serving hundreds of thousands of users across Southeast Asia and Africa.

You’ll be part of the Platform squad — responsible for platform‑level infrastructure, shared services, observability, and security tooling. We’re in the middle of a major infrastructure maturity push: closing IaC gaps, hardening CI/CD, improving observability, and preparing our platform for rapid expansion across multiple markets in Southeast Asia and Africa.

This isn’t a role where you maintain dashboards. You’ll architect, build, and operate the infrastructure that powers a high‑growth fintech with high‑throughput production systems.

What You’ll Do

• Own and operate cloud infrastructure — compute, networking, identity, and security controls — using Infrastructure-as-Code
• Manage container orchestration workloads, including cluster upgrades, deployment management, and autoscaling
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines — automated testing, deployment automation, and quality gates
• Drive observability — implement and improve monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing across all services
• Harden security posture — cloud security posture management, automated scanning in CI, access policies, network security, and contributing toward industry security certifications
• Operate messaging infrastructure — event‑driven architectures, including retry strategies and dead‑letter queue management
• Standardize market launches — build repeatable infrastructure provisioning so new markets can go live in days, not weeks
• Support the engineering team — be the go‑to person for infrastructure questions, unblock developers, and create self‑service tooling
• Participate in on‑call rotation — respond to production incidents and drive root‑cause analysis and prevention

Must‑Have Experience

• 5+ years in a DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering role
• Strong cloud infrastructure expertise — compute, networking, identity management, queuing, monitoring, storage, and databases (we use AWS primarily)
• Container orchestration in production — cluster operations, package management, debugging, resource management (we use Kubernetes)
• Infrastructure-as-Code at scale — writing, reviewing, and managing IaC with proper state management and modularization (we use Terraform)
• CI/CD pipeline design — deployment automation, testing integration, and deployment strategies (blue‑green, canary)
• Linux systems administration — comfortable debugging at the OS level
• Monitoring and observability — setting up alerting, dashboards, log aggregation, and incident response
• Security mindset — experience with access control best practices, network security, secrets management
• Strong communication — able to explain infrastructure decisions to non‑infra engineers
• Reliable internet and hardware, able to work ≥40h/week with decent overlap with UTC+8 (Singapore time)

Nice‑to‑Have

• Multi‑cloud experience (GCP, Firebase, or similar alongside AWS)
• Event streaming operations and tuning (e.g. Kafka)
• Compliance frameworks — ISO 27001, SOC 2, or similar
• Cost optimization — experience reducing cloud spend without sacrificing reliability
• Pen testing coordination or security audit experience
• Experience at a fintech or financial services company
• Experience with multi‑region or multi‑market infrastructure

What We Use Today

Here’s what we work with today — familiarity is a bonus, not a requirement:

• IaC: Terraform
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions
• Messaging: Kafka, SQS
• Monitoring: Grafana, Sentry, CloudWatch
• Security: Prowler, Trivy, SonarCloud, Cloudflare WAF
• Frontend: Angular, Ionic/Capacitor

Why Join

• Real ownership — you’ll shape the infrastructure of a company scaling across continents
• Small team, big impact — a growing platform team, no layers of bureaucracy
• Growth trajectory — rapidly expanding across Southeast Asia and Africa
• Modern stack — container orchestration, IaC, GitOps, event‑driven architecture
• Fully remote — work from anywhere with good overlap to Asia timezones #EMEA #APJ
• Competitive salary + meaningful equity (early‑stage package)