Senior Platform Engineer (DevOps)

FINN; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Competitive salary

Equity

Job summary

FINN is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to scale our cloud infrastructure across Southeast Asia and Africa. You will own platform‑level infra, observability, and security tooling in a remote, high‑growth setting.

You’ll lead IaC, CI/CD, and multi‑cloud operations, enabling rapid market launches while collaborating with cross‑functional squads. Strong AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Linux skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering role.
• Strong cloud infrastructure expertise across compute, networking, identity, monitoring, storage, and databases (AWS focus).
• Container orchestration in production (Kubernetes).
• IaC at scale (Terraform).
• CI/CD pipeline design with automated testing and deployment strategies.
• Linux systems administration and OS debugging.
• Monitoring and observability setup and incident response.
• Security mindset with access control and network security practices.
• Strong communication to explain infra decisions to non‑infra teams.

Responsibilities

• Own and operate cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Manage container orchestration workloads including upgrades and autoscaling.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with testing and deployment automation.
• Drive observability with monitoring, logging, and tracing across services.
• Harden security posture with cloud security practices and automated checks.
• Manage multi‑cloud workloads across providers.
• Operate messaging infrastructure in event‑driven architectures.
• Standardize infrastructure provisioning for rapid multi‑market launches.
• Support engineering with self‑service tooling and on‑call support.

Skills

5+ years

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Linux

Observability

Security mindset

Communication

UTC+8 overlap

Tools

AWS

Job description

Senior Platform Engineer (DevOps)

About Us

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
• 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

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)
• 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

What We Use Today

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

• Cloud : AWS (primary) + GCP/Firebase
• Orchestration : Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, ArgoCD
• IaC : Terraform
• CI/CD : GitHub Actions
• Messaging : Kafka, SQS
• Monitoring : Grafana, Sentry, CloudWatch
• Security : Prowler, Trivy, SonarCloud, Cloudflare WAF
• Backend : Node.js/TypeScript, Python, PHP
• 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)