Taekus
Senior Platform Engineer
United States · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 42 days ago
RedisCI/CDRabbitMQComplianceLeadership
About the role
- This is a high-autonomy role for an engineer ready to define a function from the ground up-setting technical direction, taking work from concept through production, and growing into broader technical leadership as we scale.
- We currently process $3B+ annually in transactions and operate as a highly profitable company.
- With a lean team of under 20 employees, we're undergoing tremendous growth as we redefine the premium banking and rewards experience.
Responsibilities
- Own and unify the platform and infrastructure that powers our core products and services, driving toward infrastructure-as-code over time.
- Treat our engineers as your customers-build the tooling, paved roads, and self-service workflows that let them ship quickly and safely.
- Own CI/CD and release automation, keeping the path to production fast, reliable, and observable.
- Own feature-flag, configuration, and secrets infrastructure, along with the reliability of our background-job, caching, and queue systems (Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ).
- Own the platform's security guardrails-secrets management, IAM and access control, PCI/PII data handling, and vulnerability management.
- Own and automate compliance and audit readiness (PCI-DSS, SOC 2, partner security reviews), coordinating external auditors and making the process repeatable.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional engineering experience, with a strong platform, infrastructure, or backend focus.
- Experience with modern observability and monitoring tooling across logging, error tracking, and APM.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- You enjoy contributing across the code base where needed.
Compensation
- We currently process $3B+ annually in transactions and operate as a highly profitable company.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and stock option plan
- Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
- Flexible vacation policy
- Improve observability and operational health across services through structured logging, error monitoring, and APM, and share in the on-call rotation for platform and infrastructure services.
This listing is sourced directly from Taekus's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.