TEAM SOFTWARE ENGINEERING Senior Platform Engineer (m/f/x)

Whitebox GmbH; Germany (OH); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Individual learning budget

Personal career development

Regular knowledge-sharing sessions

Weekly manager one-on-ones

Job summary

A leading fintech company is seeking a skilled Platform Engineer to lead infrastructure development. You will design tools for development teams, enhance workflows, and facilitate autonomy. The ideal candidate will have over 7 years of experience in cloud management and excellent collaboration skills, thriving in a remote environment. This full-time role offers flexible working conditions and an attractive benefits package.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in relevant roles managing cloud environments.
• Strong communication skills for remote collaboration.
• Self-motivated, capable of working independently.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain foundational platforms and tools.
• Ensure stability, security, and scalability of infrastructure.
• Collaborate closely with product teams for efficient development.

Skills

Experience as a DevOps, Site Reliability, or Platform Engineer

Experience working with Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Containerization and orchestration using Docker, Kubernetes

Building CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code with Terraform

Networking and cloud security knowledge

Scripting and automation with Bash and Python

Strong product mindset

Collaboration and communication skills

Analytical mindset

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Job description

Are you passionate about creating innovation? Do you enjoy developing groundbreaking digital products that utilize cutting-edge technologies? Are you excited about driving growth in digital wealth management and delivering a unique customer experience? If so, we would love to hear from you!

We are Whitebox, and we believe investing can be fun, simple, and low-risk. Whitebox has started to make digital wealth management accessible to everyone and tailored to individual needs while keeping asset management simple, transparent, and inexpensive.

About Whitebox

Whitebox is one of the leading digital wealth managers in Germany. We are a rapidly growing company with flat hierarchies, short decision-making processes, and a strong emphasis on personal responsibility among our employees. Our globally distributed and highly qualified software engineering team is dedicated to revolutionizing the financial markets.

Joining this team will place you at the forefront of fintech innovation. You will have the opportunity to scale a top-tier product, ultimately driving significant value for the business. Most importantly, your work will help shape the future of the financial services landscape.

About the Role

We are looking for a skilled and enthusiastic Platform Engineer with a demonstrated passion for technology. As a Platform Engineer, you will be instrumental in designing, building, and maintaining the foundational platforms and tools that enable our product teams to develop, deploy, and operate our software efficiently and reliably. You’ll focus on creating a scalable and secure platform that abstracts infrastructure complexity, streamlines workflows, and improves developer experience.

This role requires deep technical expertise, a product-thinking mindset, and the ability to work autonomously in a distributed environment. You will collaborate closely with developers and other platform team members to deliver solutions that empower teams to move fast with confidence, and you will play a crucial role in ensuring the stability, security, and scalability of our infrastructure.

You will be part of an agile, distributed engineering team and play a key role in shaping the technical foundation that supports our mission: We empower thousands of people to improve their financial future.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience as a DevOps, Site Reliability, or Platform Engineer, focusing on managing and optimizing cloud environments.
• 5+ years of experience working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) in a production environment.
• Thorough experience with containerization and container orchestration using Docker, Kubernetes, or Helm.
• Thorough experience building CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or others.
• Thorough experience with Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation.
• Solid understanding of networking, cloud security, and modern infrastructure best practices.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation with Bash and Python.
• Strong product mindset with a focus on usability, reliability, and efficiency.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to interact with technical and non-technical team members.
• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to gather requirements and translate them into scalable platform solutions.
• Self-motivated and capable of working independently as part of a distributed team.

Must have

The senior role is intended to take the technical leadership in this project. Apart from solid technical experience in the required technologies over many years, we expect excellent communication skills to discuss technical topics, which is crucial in a remote setup.

Nice to have

• Experience with implementing GitOps practices and tooling.
• Experience with network tools such as iptables, traceroute, ping, nmap, netstat, or tcpdump.
• Experience with provisioning tools like Chef, Ansible, puppet, salt, and others.
• Familiarity with service mesh technologies like Istio or Linkerd.
• Familiarity with observability frameworks like Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.
• Strong expertise in relational database administration, including performance tuning, backup and recovery strategies, and database security.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to prioritize tasks effectively.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with a solid understanding of cross-platform issues.
• Passion for documentation, operational excellence, and DevEx innovation.
• Passion for company-wide security, with a strong desire to promote and implement security best practices across the organization.
• Passion for taking responsibility and driving growth in a product company.

Job overview

Location

Remote

+7 years

Contract

Full-time

Team

Software Engineering

Reports to

Team size

20+

Your first week

The first week concerns context: our organization's why, what, and how. The first week is always exciting and challenging, and we want you to know the team and gain confidence that we will always have your back. You will

• meet with the team and have One-on-One conversations with everyone,
• become introduced to our business and upcoming challenges, and
• discuss the current objectives with our leadership team.

Your first month

The first month is for orientation. You will get to know the codebase, understand the reasons behind past design decisions, and understand our organization's context. In detail, you will

• work out all the particular areas of the codebase and functionality,
• elaborate on how all the pieces fit together, and
• explore how it relates to the product and value we provide our customers.

In the first quarter, you will become fully integrated into your team and be able to work with everybody on our ongoing projects. In line with this, you will also incorporate yourself into your chapter. You will

• start bringing value to our customers,
• moving our projects forward, step by step,
• working towards your own goals raising the bar, and
• participating in engineering team meetings, defining our principles, goals, and how we want to work.
• This position is a permanent, full-time (40h/wk) role.
• Thirty days of paid vacation.
• 100% remote.
• Attractive remuneration package and free choice of hardware.
• Weekly manager one-on-ones, flat hierarchies, and an open-door mentality.

Our company benefits

Individual learning budget and personal career development.

Free access to the Whitebox wealth management.

Virtual get-togethers and on-site team activities.

Fairness with foreign colleagues and benefits that apply to all (no regional benefits).

Regular knowledge-sharing sessions, communities of practice calls, and Freaky Fridays.

Interested in having a chat?

Please send us your CV together with your earliest starting date and salary expectations to [e-mail] .