Senior Platform Engineer, AI-Powered Payments (Remote)

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with match

Early equity

Internet stipend

Learning stipend

Office setup stipend

Health insurance

HSA/FSA options

Life and disability insurance

Flexible PTO

Paid national holidays

Global parental leave

Promote from within

Lunch and learns

Team events and summits

Remote and hybrid opportunities

Weekly office lunches

Employee discount platform

Job summary

VGS is building the platform powering agentic commerce and global payments infrastructure. We seek a Senior Software Engineer to design secure, scalable payment flows with a modern tech stack and AI-assisted development.

You’ll own critical components and partner across product, security, and ops to deliver trusted payments at scale. We embrace remote-first work with optional hybrid arrangements for those near office locations.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience delivering and maintaining complex distributed systems in production.
• Proficiency in AWS ecosystems and Terraform for reproducible environments.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, and GitOps workflows (Flux, Argo, GitHub Actions).
• Strong Python scripting to automate infrastructure and tooling.
• Experience with security foundations and cloud networking basics.

Responsibilities

• Build Agentic Payment Infrastructure: Design and build Python 3.13+ and FastAPI services for secure payment flows.
• Define the Core API Platform: Design APIs and domain models for enrollment, provisioning, mandates, and cryptograms.
• Ensure Security, Reliability & Scale: Implement practices for security, scalability, availability, and performance.
• Implement Deep Observability: Apply patterns for tracing, logging, metrics with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus.
• Automate Platform Provisioning: Design provisioning workflows using Kubernetes CRDs.
• Set the Quality Bar: Define unit/integration/end-to-end testing for high-risk payment flows.
• Execute Key Technical Initiatives: Participate in design reviews and deliver features reliably.
• Pioneer AI-Native Engineering: Apply AI-assisted development across SDLC while maintaining security.

Skills

Distributed systems

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

GitOps

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Security fundamentals

Python

Fintech

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes (EKS)

Docker

GitHub Actions

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Job description

VGS is building the platform powering agentic commerce and global payments infrastructure. We seek a Senior Software Engineer to design secure, scalable payment flows with a modern tech stack and AI-assisted development.

You’ll own critical components and partner across product, security, and ops to deliver trusted payments at scale. We embrace remote-first work with optional hybrid arrangements for those near office locations.