Kikoff
Senior Platform Engineer
San Francisco · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$244k-$292kDetected 119 days ago
TypeScriptPythonGoRubyGitAWSDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CDGitHub ActionsJenkinsPrometheusDatadogDevOpsPlatform EngineeringMachine LearningMLOpsCybersecurityIncident ResponseComplianceValuationCommunication
About the role
- This is not a "keep the lights on" operations role.
- your metrics are their velocity and our security posture.
- Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability systems
Responsibilities
- With record revenue growth in 2025 and a unicorn valuation, we've built a suite of products that help millions of people build credit, access liquidity, and save money.
- Join us if you want to build something meaningful and help millions of people move forward financially.
- We value extreme ownership, clear communication, a strong sense of craftsmanship, and the desire to create lasting work and work relationships.
- Design self-service infrastructure using AWS (ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda, IAM) and Pulumi/TypeScript
- Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for fast, safe deployments
- Build documentation and runbooks that empower teams to self-serve
- Implement security controls that satisfy regulatory requirements
- Treat platform as product: gather feedback, measure adoption, drive improvements
- Partner with engineers and stakeholders to set technical strategy
Nice to have
- Fintech or regulated industry experience (SOC 2, PCI-DSS)
- Security automation or compliance tooling
- Data and ML infrastructure or MLOps background
Skills
- Explain technical decisions clearly to non-technical audiences
- 5+ years infrastructure, platform, or DevOps engineering
- Production AWS (EC2, ECS/Fargate, RDS, S3, Lambda, VPC, IAM)
- Infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi or Terraform- we use Pulumi/TypeScript)
- CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)
- Containers (Docker, ECS, or Kubernetes)
- Monitoring tools (Datadog, Prometheus, CloudWatch, or similar)
- Strong coding skills in Ruby, Python, Go, TypeScript, or similar
- Track record building platforms that teams actually adopted
- Secure architectures, IAM systems, security automation, SOC 2/PCI-DSS frameworks, audit preparation
Compensation
- $244,000 - $292,000 USD
Company info
- Your customers are engineers; your metrics are their velocity and our security posture.
- Kikoff is a profitable, pre-IPO fintech company on a mission to empower everyone to achieve financial security.
Equal opportunity
- Kikoff Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
- We are committed to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities and considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
- Please reference the following for more information.
Visa & Work Authorization
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