Senior Platform Engineer — Scalable, Real-Time Distributed Systems

Storm2; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Storm2 is representing a Series A FinTech client hiring for a senior backend/platform/infrastructure engineer. You will own production systems at scale, focusing on reliability and performance across distributed services and real-time data pipelines.

You'll work with AWS, Kubernetes, and data infrastructure, contributing to a payment/fintech stack. Equity and bonus are offered alongside base compensation in a fast-growing, high-load environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building backend, platform or infrastructure systems.
• Strong experience operating production systems at scale.
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems and reliability engineering.
• Proficiency with AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, PostgreSQL or similar.
• Strong coding skills in Python, Go or TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Own core AWS infrastructure, databases, networking and observability.
• Develop distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
• Build real-time data pipelines and backend services.
• Improve reliability, scalability and performance of systems.

Skills

Distributed systems

Reliability engineering

Backend engineering

Python/Go/TypeScript

Production systems on scale

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Job description

Storm2 is representing a Series A FinTech client hiring for a senior backend/platform/infrastructure engineer. You will own production systems at scale, focusing on reliability and performance across distributed services and real-time data pipelines.

You'll work with AWS, Kubernetes, and data infrastructure, contributing to a payment/fintech stack. Equity and bonus are offered alongside base compensation in a fast-growing, high-load environment.