Senior Platform Engineer (m/f/d) Team Software Engineering >

Whitebox GmbH; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Whitebox GmbH is seeking a Platform Engineer to innovate and enhance the fintech landscape. This remote position offers a chance to collaborate with a global team, ensuring the development of scalable and reliable platforms. Ideal candidates will possess extensive experience in managing cloud infrastructure and optimizing development workflows.

Benefits

Thirty days of paid vacation

Individual learning budget

Attractive remuneration package

Flat hierarchies and open-door mentality

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience as a DevOps, Site Reliability, or Platform Engineer.
• 5+ years experience with AWS in a production environment.
• Thorough experience with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain foundational platforms for product teams.
• Ensure stability, security, and scalability of the company's infrastructure.
• Collaborate with developers to deliver efficient solutions.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Automation

Observability

Security

Scripting

Collaboration

Analytical mindset

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Terraform

Job description

Are you passionate about creating innovation? Do you enjoy developing groundbreaking digital products that utilize cutting-edge technologies? Are you excited about driving growth in digital wealth management and delivering a unique customer experience? If so, we would love to hear from you!

We are Whitebox, and we believe investing can be fun, simple, and low-risk. Whitebox has started to make digital wealth management accessible to everyone and tailored to individual needs while keeping asset management simple, transparent, and inexpensive.

About Whitebox

Whitebox is one of the leading digital wealth managers in Germany. We are a rapidly growing company with flat hierarchies, short decision-making processes, and a strong emphasis on personal responsibility among our employees. Our globally distributed and highly qualified software engineering team is dedicated to revolutionizing the financial markets.

Joining this team will place you at the forefront of fintech innovation. You will have the opportunity to scale a top-tier product, ultimately driving significant value for the business. Most importantly, your work will help shape the future of the financial services landscape.

About the Role

We are looking for a skilled and enthusiastic Platform Engineer with a demonstrated passion for technology. As a Platform Engineer, you will be instrumental in designing, building, and maintaining the foundational platforms and tools that enable our product teams to develop, deploy, and operate our software efficiently and reliably. You’ll focus on creating a scalable and secure platform that abstracts infrastructure complexity, streamlines workflows, and improves developer experience.

This role requires deep technical expertise, a product-thinking mindset, and the ability to work autonomously in a distributed environment. You will collaborate closely with developers and other platform team members to deliver solutions that empower teams to move fast with confidence, and you will play a crucial role in ensuring the stability, security, and scalability of our infrastructure.

You will be part of an agile, distributed engineering team and play a key role in shaping the technical foundation that supports our mission: We empower thousands of people to improve their financial future.

Our Purpose:

We empower thousands of people to improve their financial future.

Requirements

The ideal candidate will be passionate about building robust, scalable, and developer-friendly platforms, potentially focusing on areas like cloud infrastructure, automation, observability, security, or specific engineering challenges within a product company. Through your experience, you can take technical leadership and set technical directions. Solid communication skills enable you to consistently explain your decision-making reasoning to your team members and a broader audience inside our organization. You can establish, manage, and guide expectations, and your thorough knowledge of software development allows you to provide guidance and show us a path of continuous growth.

• 7+ years of experience as a DevOps, Site Reliability, or Platform Engineer, focusing on managing and optimizing cloud environments.
• 5+ years of experience working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) in a production environment.
• Thorough experience with containerization and container orchestration using Docker, Kubernetes, or Helm.
• Thorough experience building CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or others.
• Thorough experience with Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation.
• Solid understanding of networking, cloud security, and modern infrastructure best practices.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation with Bash and Python.
• Strong product mindset with a focus on usability, reliability, and efficiency.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to interact with technical and non-technical team members.
• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to gather requirements and translate them into scalable platform solutions.
• Self-motivated and capable of working independently as part of a distributed team.

Must have

The senior role is intended to take the technical leadership in this project. Apart from solid technical experience in the required technologies over many years, we expect excellent communication skills to discuss technical topics, which is crucial in a remote setup.

Nice to have

• Experience with implementing GitOps practices and tooling.
• Experience with network tools such as iptables, traceroute, ping, nmap, netstat, or tcpdump.
• Experience with provisioning tools like Chef, Ansible, puppet, salt, and others.
• Familiarity with service mesh technologies like Istio or Linkerd.
• Familiarity with observability frameworks like Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.
• Strong expertise in relational database administration, including performance tuning, backup and recovery strategies, and database security.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to prioritize tasks effectively.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with a solid understanding of cross-platform issues.
• Passion for documentation, operational excellence, and DevEx innovation.
• Passion for company-wide security, with a strong desire to promote and implement security best practices across the organization.
• Passion for taking responsibility and driving growth in a product company.

At a glance Job overview

Location

Remote

+7 years

Contract

Full-time

Department

Software Engineering

Reports to

Team size

20+

Your first week

The first week concerns context: our organization's why, what, and how. The first week is always exciting and challenging, and we want you to know the team and gain confidence that we will always have your back. You will

• meet with the team and have One-on-One conversations with everyone,
• become introduced to our business and upcoming challenges, and
• discuss the current objectives with our leadership team.

Your first month

The first month is for orientation. You will get to know the codebase, understand the reasons behind past design decisions, and understand our organization's context. In detail, you will

• work out all the particular areas of the codebase and functionality,
• elaborate on how all the pieces fit together, and
• explore how it relates to the product and value we provide our customers.

In the first quarter, you will become fully integrated into your team and be able to work with everybody on our ongoing projects. In line with this, you will also incorporate yourself into your chapter. You will

• start bringing value to our customers,
• moving our projects forward, step by step,
• working towards your own goals raising the bar, and
• participating in engineering team meetings, defining our principles, goals, and how we want to work.

We are a remote-first company with a globally distributed engineering team. Our engineers are spread worldwide, but work in similar time zones. Being able to come in once in a while is a strong plus.

• This position is a permanent, full-time (40h/wk) role.
• Thirty days of paid vacation.
• 100% remote.
• Attractive remuneration package and free choice of hardware.
• Weekly manager one-on-ones, flat hierarchies, and an open-door mentality.
  

Our company benefits

Individual learning budget and personal career development.

Regular knowledge-sharing sessions, communities of practice calls, and Freaky Fridays.

Virtual get-togethers and on-site team activities.

Fairness with foreign colleagues and benefits that apply to all (no regional benefits).

And, of course, fee-free asset management.

Interested in having a chat?

Please send us your CV together with your earliest starting date and salary expectations [e-mail] . Your contact person is Matthias Keil.