Platform engineer in fintech

FINN; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Meaningful equity

Job summary

FINN is hiring for a Senior DevOps/SRE role to own cloud infrastructure, manage Kubernetes workloads, and drive CI/CD and observability across a multi-cloud environment. The team supports expansion to new markets and fintech services with strong security and automation focus.

You will work remotely with a global team, ensuring reliable operations, rapid deployments, and scalable infrastructure as FINN scales beyond its initial markets.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering role.
• Strong cloud infrastructure expertise — AWS.
• Container orchestration in production — Kubernetes.
• IaC at scale — Terraform.
• CI/CD pipeline design and deployment strategies.
• Linux systems administration.
• Monitoring and observability capabilities.
• Security mindset with best practices.
• Strong communication to explain infra decisions.
• Ability to work ≥40h/week with overlap to UTC+8.

Responsibilities

• Own and operate cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Manage container orchestration workloads — upgrades, deployments, autoscaling.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and gates.
• Drive observability — monitoring, logging, alerting, tracing.
• Harden security posture, access control, network security, CI gates.
• Manage multi-cloud infrastructure across providers.
• Operate messaging infrastructure with event-driven design.
• Standardize market launches with repeatable provisioning.
• Support engineers with self-service tooling and guidance.
• Participate in on-call rotation and root-cause analysis.

Skills

DevOps Engineer

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Linux

Observability

Security

Communication

UTC+8 overlap

Tools

ArgoCD

Kafka

Job description

Описание

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.

Задачи

• 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
• Manage multi-cloud infrastructure — we run workloads across multiple cloud providers
• 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

Требования

• 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)

Будет плюсом

• Multi-cloud experience (GCP, Firebase, or similar alongside AWS)
• GitOps deployment experience (e.g. ArgoCD or similar)
• 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

Условия

• 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)