Senior Platform Engineer: Real-Time Payments Platform

Global Payments; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Payments is seeking a Senior Engineer to join the Enterprise Data Platform Engineering Team to shape the future of the company’s real-time operational data store (ODS). You will help design, implement, and operate scalable data solutions powering payments, fraud prevention, and merchant servicing at scale.

You will drive reliability, performance, and governance, contribute to architectural decisions, and collaborate with product teams to convert proofs-of-concept into production-grade

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
• Expertise with distributed NoSQL databases and data-serving platforms.
• Experience with streaming data pipelines and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD, and cloud-native technologies.
• Bonus: payments/fintech domain knowledge and regulated industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver core platform capabilities for low-latency access to operational data.
• Improve platform reliability and performance by optimizing read-path latency, scalability, and resiliency.
• Create self-service capabilities for tenant provisioning, governance controls, and operational workflows.
• Influence platform strategy and establish engineering standards for a shared enterprise platform.
• Build observability, resiliency, and recovery capabilities to improve service health.

Skills

Distributed systems

Apache Kafka

CI/CD & IaC

Kubernetes

GCP

Iceberg lakehouse

Tools

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Apache Iceberg

Job description

Global Payments is seeking a Senior Engineer to join the Enterprise Data Platform Engineering Team to shape the future of the company’s real-time operational data store (ODS). You will help design, implement, and operate scalable data solutions powering payments, fraud prevention, and merchant servicing at scale.

You will drive reliability, performance, and governance, contribute to architectural decisions, and collaborate with product teams to convert proofs-of-concept into production-grade