Staff Platform Engineer

SPD Technology; New York (NY); Remote; USD 80,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Platform Engineer, where you will lead the optimization of development processes for a major fintech project. You will have the autonomy to explore cutting-edge technologies and improve the lives of engineers by automating manual processes. This innovative team values collaboration and personal growth, offering a flexible work environment that supports your professional development. If you're passionate about creating impactful tech solutions and thrive in a dynamic setting, this opportunity is perfect for you to unleash your potential and make a difference.

Benefits

Flexible working schedule

Remote work

Provided laptops and licensed software

Performance and merit reviews

Personal development plans

Corporate library access

Public speaking support

Referral bonus program

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Docker, Kubernetes, and Linux is essential.
• Solid understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines is required.

Responsibilities

• Own engineering operations strategies and practices across the organization.
• Devise solutions that optimize and accelerate the SDLC while ensuring quality.

Skills

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux

DevOps

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

GitOps

CI/CD pipelines

Java

Python

Cloud providers (GCP, AWS)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Job description

At SPD Technology, we bring together a team of like-minded people who are driven by the desire to bring value through their work, united in their commitment to high performance and delivering custom, cutting-edge tech solutions that drive clients’ growth. We empower our people with a culture of excellence and enable them with the opportunity to uphold their accountability to contribute at each level. We value humanity and collaboration, encourage professional and personal growth, and foster a supportive and flexible work environment where everyone’s contribution is welcomed.

We are looking for a Platform Engineer to join us as part of our team.

About the role

As a Platform Engineer, you will join the Platform Engineering team of one of our largest fintech projects and will be engaged in optimization and improvement of development processes and building a unique internal product for your final customers—a top-notch team of 250+ engineers. You will hold the ownership of a fully innovative product with all the responsibilities and opportunities and possess autonomy in exploring the cutting-edge technologies to build a solution to measurably improve the lives of engineers by automating away all manual processes required from code to delivery. You will utilize your extensive background building, deploying, and delivering products end-to-end. Also, you will focus on consistently delighting PitchBook customers through the reliability, quality, and delivery speed of our products.

You will target both hands-on work identifying delivery technologies, building pipelines, digging deep into our infrastructure and cloud deployments, and broad strategizing in engineering operations, practices, and standards across the organization, working closely with engineering leadership.

About the project

PitchBook is a financial data and software company with offices in London, New York, San Francisco, and Seattle. Serving clients in 19 languages, we provide thousands of global business professionals with comprehensive data on the private and public markets to help them discover and execute opportunities with confidence. Worldwide usage includes large corporations, start-ups, venture capital and private equity firms, investment banks, and many others.

Team

1 Lead, 2 Engineers

As a qualified expert you will

• Own engineering operations strategies, practices, and standards across the organization, working closely with engineering leadership.
• Evangelize operational excellence within PitchBook engineering teams, integrating product and engineering with operations seamlessly through structure, collaboration, enablement, and automation.
• Devise solutions that optimize and accelerate the SDLC while maintaining exceptional quality and security, repeatedly applied through automation.
• Help development teams to manage infrastructure, including cloud managed services, base images, containerization strategy and execution, infrastructure automation (+ GitOps), cloud procurement, and governance.
• Manage developer experience (DevEx), including developer productivity, SDLC and operational metrics, automated CI/CD pipelines, value stream management and tracking, tool selection and integration.
• Describe technical context in intuitive ways for different audiences, adapting communication from highly technical deep dives with engineers to non-technical dialogue with executive stakeholders.
• Learn constantly, including in available managed services (PaaS/SaaS/IaaS), libraries, frameworks, and platforms (commercial and open source), pros/cons and cost/benefit tradeoffs.
• Follow the company’s application of Agile, Lean, and principles of fast flow to engineering department efficiency and productivity and own operations’ role in process automation to achieve fluidity.

We’re looking for you if you have

• Extensive experience in Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, network, CDN, protocols.
• Solid experience in DevOps, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and GitOps configuration & CI/CD pipelines, including Flux, Terraform, GitLab CI/GitHub Actions, or similar tools.
• Experience in software development, preferably in Java or Python. Solid understanding of programming best practices and principles, common software architectures and methods.
• Extensive experience designing and managing cloud-based solutions, infrastructure management or HA solutions, including web services, messaging solutions (Kafka, RabbitMQ), databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MSSQL Server), and caching solutions.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. You can effectively read the situation and adjust your communication style to the audience.
• Experience with cloud providers: GCP, AWS.

What’s in it for You

Reveal great tech solutions

Join the team of experts who create custom, cutting-edge tech solutions for world-renowned businesses, fueling client growth. Unleash your potential, tackle new challenges, and be part of a team that values your skills and contributions. Focus on long-term impact and building tailored, long-lasting partnerships with our clients.

Experience an agile and flexible working environment

Enjoy the freedom of fully remote work with a flexible working schedule. Empower yourself with a stable workload and a stable income, supported by provided laptops and licensed software. We focus on lasting cooperation and unite result-oriented individuals who stand on a high-performance approach to work.

Embrace the opportunity for personal and professional growth

Benefit from performance and merit reviews, elevate your skills with personal development plans, and individual learnings through the corporate library, public speaking support, and more.

Be among like-minded people

Work with a team of one mind who cares about what they do and how they do. Collaborate with top-notch experts who are always ready to help and support you through any challenges. Join company-wide tech and cultural events, and contribute to meaningful CSR initiatives that resonate with your values. Feel supported by your HR, and take advantage of our referral bonus program.

Interview steps

1. Pre-Screening with the recruiter.
2. Technical Interview.
3. Client Interview.