Platform Engineer

ModernFi; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

401(k)

Premium health, dental, and vision insurance

Equity in company

Job summary

ModernFi is hiring a Senior/Staff Platform & Infrastructure Engineer to join their team in New York. You will build foundational infrastructure, own reliability, and lead security efforts. This role offers the chance to grow and work on mission-critical systems for a leading fintech company.

The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in software engineering, especially in infrastructure, with a solid understanding of AWS and infrastructure as code. ModernFi values collaboration, learning, and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience focused on infrastructure.
• Deep fluency with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Hands-on experience with an observability stack.
• Experience improving on-call experiences and defining runbooks.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the reliability posture of ModernFi network.
• Lead the buildout of an advanced release pipeline.
• Drive security and compliance posture.
• Upgrade on-call practices and tooling.

Skills

Cloud Infrastructure (AWS)

Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi, Terraform)

CI/CD Pipelines

Observability (Datadog, Prometheus)

Security Mindset

Tools

PostgreSQL

Docker

GitHub Actions

Job description

The Opportunity

ModernFi is hiring a Senior/Staff Platform & Infrastructure Engineer to join a talented and collaborative team building the foundation of our platform. You’ll work on critical systems from day one, with meaningful ownership and the opportunity to shape the direction of our products and infrastructure.

We believe in hiring top talent and giving you the autonomy to build impactful solutions, while fostering a culture of collaboration and learning. You’ll grow your expertise, work on mission‑critical systems, and contribute to products that help banks and credit unions better serve their communities, improving financial health nationwide.

This is a founding Platform Engineering role, and you'll have the opportunity to define how we run our infrastructure, release software, and approach security as we scale from serving hundreds of institutions to thousands.

Responsibilities

1. Own and evolve the reliability posture of the ModernFi network (observability, incident response, SLOs, and on‑call practices) so we can keep shipping fast without ever compromising correctness.

2. Lead the buildout of a more advanced release pipeline with merge queues, feature‑flag tooling, and per‑domain release gates for our highest‑stakes services across multiple environments.

3. Take ownership of our cloud platform, Pulumi modules, AWS account structure, identity, networking, and the tooling product engineers build on, and make the right call between extending what we have today and replacing it for what’s next.

4. Drive our security and compliance posture: Vanta remediation, SOC 1/2 readiness, vulnerability scanning, secrets and key management, and hardening across the stack — partnering closely with our CCO, external advisors, and the rest of engineering.

5. Upgrade how ModernFi does on‑call: the tooling around it, the runbooks behind it, the rotations that staff it, and the postmortems that close it out while participating in the infrastructure on‑call rotation yourself.

6. Partner closely with our product engineering pods to understand where the platform creates drag, and ship the abstractions that let them move faster and more safely.

7. Cultivate a culture of operational excellence through code reviews, design discussions, mentorship, and the steady raising of our collective bar for what production‑grade looks like.

Tech Stack:

• AWS / Pulumi IaC

• PostgreSQL (RDS), ECS, Docker

• Temporal

• Python (FastAPI, SQLAlchemy)

• Datadog, PagerDuty, GitHub Actions

• Auth0, Vanta, Fern

About You

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time spent on infrastructure, platform, or reliability‑focused work in a production environment.

• Deep fluency with cloud infrastructure (ideally AWS), infrastructure‑as‑code (Pulumi, Terraform, or similar), and modern CI/CD pipelines.

• A security mindset: you treat security as a first‑class concern in everything you build, even if you don't come from a dedicated security background. Familiarity with frameworks such as SOC 2, compliance tooling such as Vanta, and concepts such as secrets management, key rotation, and least‑privilege access is a plus.

• Hands‑on experience with a modern observability stack (Datadog, Prometheus + Grafana, the Elastic stack, or equivalent), and a track record of setting observability and monitoring standards that translate into actionable insights for product teams downstream. You've also defined SLOs, run postmortems, and improved the on‑call experiences you've personally experienced.

• Comfortable owning systems end‑to‑end, from the IaC that provisions them to the runbooks that recover them.

• Experience working in or alongside small, fast‑moving engineering teams, with a track record of making them faster and more reliable rather than introducing process drag.

• Excellent communication skills. You can explain a network topology to a non‑engineer and a production incident to a CEO with equal clarity.

• High level of empathy, integrity, and calmness under pressure.

• You're excited by the prospect of being the founding Platform Engineer at a fintech company where your work directly determines what we can safely ship. You’re the kind of IC who thrives on shipping infrastructure that other engineers love to build on.

About Us

The caliber and character of the ModernFi team set us apart.

We value competence and drive over experience and seek compassionate people with diverse backgrounds. We appreciate technical ability, dedication, and humble confidence. Above all, we value respect – respect for our colleagues, clients, partners, and ourselves.

Our team pushes each other to be better every day, supports each other when challenges arise, and grows together on this journey. Because we are a close‑knit team, we are selective and considerate with every hire.

The people at ModernFi could be doing anything in the world, yet they choose to be here.

Benefits

We offer a generous salary, unlimited PTO, 401(k), and premium health, dental, and vision insurance. As an early hire, you will have access to significant equity at a critical stage of the company’s growth.

The Process

During the recruitment process, you’ll meet the our leadership team and, provided conversations go well, will be invited to an onsite presentation.

We are excited to get to know you, learn about what motivates you, and ensure that we can accelerate your personal and professional growth.