Platform Engineer

Storm2; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Storm2 is seeking a hands-on infrastructure engineer to own significant parts of the platform beneath the engineering team, from Terraform provisioning through CI/CD, observability and internal tooling.

You will harden deployment tooling, expand visibility across metrics and logs, and build abstractions that let product engineers ship quickly without becoming infrastructure experts.

We value independent makers who can safely push production changes in a small team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years owning production infrastructure in a real-world system.
• Proven IaC experience with Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation.
• Strong cloud experience (GCP/AWS/Azure), with emphasis on GCP.
• Experience building CI/CD and internal tooling, not just using platforms.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes/ECS and container orchestration.
• Backend coding ability in Go, Python or TypeScript.
• Hands-on observability tooling knowledge (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry).
• Strong IAM and secrets management practices.

Responsibilities

• Own infrastructure-as-code across networking, IAM, VPCs and provisioning.
• Harden CI/CD, secrets management and self-service deployment tooling.
• Build internal abstractions and tooling to speed engineers.
• Expand observability across metrics collection, monitoring and alerting.
• Support production cloud infrastructure and reliability for messaging systems.
• Build tooling around compliance and infrastructure remediation.
• Improve developer onboarding and cloud cost visibility.

Skills

Production infrastructure ownership

Infrastructure-as-code

Cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure)

CI/CD tooling

Container orchestration (Kubernetes, E

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

ECS

Datadog

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Go

Python

TypeScript

Job description

The Company

I'm partnered with a payments infrastructure FinTech processing billions of dollars in annual transaction volume. Their APIs power real-time transfers, bank debits and card disbursements for FinTech, banking and marketplace businesses, so reliability and compliance are built into the infrastructure rather than bolted on later.

The Role

You'll own significant pieces of the platform underneath the engineering team, from Terraform and environment provisioning through to CI/CD, observability and internal developer tooling. There's a defined backlog to attack, but not layers of process telling you how to execute it.

This isn't a role for someone who's only operated inside a platform that was already mature. They need someone who's built or materially improved infrastructure themselves, can safely make production changes with a high degree of independence, and likes creating tooling that makes every other engineer faster.

What you'll be working on:

• Owning infrastructure-as-code across networking, IAM, VPCs and environment provisioning, including an ongoing Terraform migration
• Hardening CI/CD, secrets management and self-service deployment tooling
• Building internal abstractions and tooling that let product engineers ship without becoming infrastructure experts
• Expanding observability across service instrumentation, metrics collection, monitoring and alerting
• Supporting production cloud infrastructure and reliability across messaging systems
• Building tooling around compliance, access controls and infrastructure remediation
• Improving developer onboarding, local development workflows, cloud cost visibility and infrastructure documentation

What you'll bring:

• 5+ years across platform, infrastructure or backend engineering, with substantial production infrastructure ownership
• Strong Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation or comparable infrastructure-as-code experience
• Production experience with GCP, AWS or Azure, with GCP particularly relevant
• Experience building CI/CD and internal developer tooling, rather than simply using an established platform
• Kubernetes, ECS or similar container orchestration experience
• Backend engineering ability in a language such as Go, Python or TypeScript
• Hands-on knowledge of observability tooling such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus or OpenTelemetry
• A strong understanding of IAM, secrets management and secure-by-default infrastructure
• Comfort making production infrastructure changes independently in a small engineering team

Where you'll stand out

Experience in payments, FinTech or another regulated environment will translate particularly well. The same goes for engineers who've built compliance-focused platform tooling, worked across GCP and AWS, or supported infrastructure through rapid transaction or engineering-team growth.

The important distinction is ownership. If your experience is mostly maintaining infrastructure someone else designed, this probably isn't the right one. If you've been the engineer improving the platform while product teams are actively depending on it, it probably is.