Platform / DevOps Engineer – AWS, Terraform & CI/CD (Fintech)

MaxIT Consulting - Max Corporate Group; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

MaxIT Consulting - Max Corporate Group in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure to join the platform engineering team that builds a productive shared platform for engineers and AI agents.

You will own roadmap pieces end-to-end, implement gated deploys, automated migrations, and fast environments, using OpenTofu/Terraform on AWS, with strong TypeScript and Python coding, plus Linux/container fundamentals.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience, including significant infrastructure, platform or developer-productivity work.
• Confidence with AWS, infrastructure as code, CI/CD systems and Linux/container fundamentals.
• Strong general-purpose programming, primarily TypeScript, with Python where it fits.

Responsibilities

• Own pieces of the roadmap end to end and watch engineers use them.
• Deployment workflows: gated deploys, automated schema migrations with rollback, trusted staging-to-production promotion.
• Environments: fast local and remote dev environments, preview and review environments.
• Agent-first development: gateways, governance, cost management and model selection.
• Infrastructure as code: OpenTofu/Terraform, drift remediation and cloud consolidation on AWS.
• Observability, security and access: tracing, logging, metrics, secrets management, SSO and IAM scoping.

Skills

TypeScript

Python

Tools

AWS

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Linux

Containers

Job description

San Francisco, CA | On-site | Full-time

MaxIT Consulting is looking for a Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure to join the platform engineering team of a fast-growing, venture-backed financial data and accounting automation platform.

The Opportunity

Platform engineering here is engineering for engineering: make every engineer, and the AI agents working alongside them, dramatically more productive through a shared platform, so anyone can go from idea to a safely deployed change without bespoke setup. You will own pieces of the roadmap end to end and watch engineers use them.

What You Might Work On

• Deployment: gated deploys, automated schema migrations with rollback, trusted staging-to-production promotion.
• Environments and parity: fast local and remote dev environments, preview and review environments.
• Agent-first development: MCP gateways, governance, cost management and model selection.
• Infrastructure as code: OpenTofu/Terraform, drift remediation and cloud consolidation on AWS.
• Observability, security and access: tracing, logging, metrics, secrets management, SSO and IAM scoping.
• Internal tools hosting and developer portal.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience, including significant infrastructure, platform or developer-productivity work.
• Confidence with AWS, infrastructure as code, CI/CD systems and Linux/container fundamentals.
• Strong general-purpose programming, primarily TypeScript, with Python where it fits.

Nice to Have

• Spacelift or Atlantis, Datadog, GitHub Actions or Buildkite.
• Incident management, SLAs and high-traffic reliability.

Work Arrangement

In-person role in San Francisco, CA. Candidates must already be authorized to work in the United States.