Senior Platform Engineer — Scalable, Secure Infra (Remote)

Devopsroles; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health insurance

401(k) match

Flexible vacation

Fully remote

Job summary

Taekus is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own the infrastructure, reliability, and security that power our fintech products. This high-autonomy role lets you define the function from the ground up—setting technical direction, delivering from concept to production, and growing into technical leadership as we scale.

Join Taekus, a profitable fintech startup redefining premium banking and rewards. You’ll own CI/CD, security guardrails, and compliance programs, while working in a fully remote

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional engineering experience with a platform, infra, or backend focus.
• Deep AWS experience (EKS/Kubernetes, EC2, Lambda, RDS) in high-availability production environments.
• Strong CI/CD and release engineering background; Docker/Kubernetes; tooling to improve developer experience (Terraform a plus).
• Comfort with Python/Django codebases (Celery, Redis, PostgreSQL); read and contribute to platform code.

Responsibilities

• Own and unify the platform and infrastructure powering core products; drive toward infrastructure-as-code.
• Build tooling, paved roads, and self-service workflows for engineers to ship quickly and safely.
• Own CI/CD and release automation; ensure fast, reliable production deployments.
• Own secrets, configuration, and access control, plus reliability of background-job and queue systems.
• Improve observability with structured logging, error monitoring, and APM; participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

AWS

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Observability

Security mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Taekus is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own the infrastructure, reliability, and security that power our fintech products. This high-autonomy role lets you define the function from the ground up—setting technical direction, delivering from concept to production, and growing into technical leadership as we scale.

Join Taekus, a profitable fintech startup redefining premium banking and rewards. You’ll own CI/CD, security guardrails, and compliance programs, while working in a fully remote