Taekus - Senior Platform & Security Engineer
Requirements
• 6+ years of professional engineering experience, with a strong platform, infrastructure, or backend focus. • Deep, hands-on AWS experience (EKS/Kubernetes, EC2, Lambda, RDS) in high-availability production environments. • Strong CI/CD and release-engineering background, with containerization using Docker and Kubernetes, and a track record of building tooling that improves developer experience (Terraform a plus). • Comfort working in a Python/Django codebase (Celery, Redis, PostgreSQL), able to read and contribute to platform code. • Experience with modern observability and monitoring tooling across logging, error tracking, and APM. • A security-minded engineer fluent in secrets management, IAM/access control, and dependency hygiene, ideally with hands-on PCI-DSS or SOC 2 experience. • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. • You’d Love This Job If • You want to establish and own a platform and security function from the ground up. • You'd rather automate security and compliance than grind through them by hand. • You enjoy contributing across the code base where needed. • You want to be in a scaling startup that is experiencing exponential growth. • You're excited by building foundational work and enjoy making an impact. • Traveling is in your DNA and you get to apply your passion into your work. • You thrive in growing high-caliber teams and want to influence both technical and strategic direction. • Taekus is a 6-year-old luxury financial services company that offers travel rewards credit cards, debit cards, and other banking services for the affluent market. 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. • 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). • 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. • 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. • Set technical direction for platform and security, driving toward infrastructure-as-code over time.
Benefits
• $175K – $230K • Offers Equity • Taekus is a profitable fintech and travel startup building a next-generation premium banking and rewards ecosystem for affluent customers. With $70M in annual revenue and $3B+ in annual transaction volume, we're entering a new stage of growth focused on scaling our core banking systems, rewards infrastructure, and partner integrations. • We're seeking a Senior Platform & Security Engineer to own the infrastructure, reliability, and security that everything we build runs on. 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. • Competitive salary and stock option plan • Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance • 401(k) plan with 5% company match • Flexible vacation policy • Fully remote work environment
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