Kiwi Financial Inc - Senior Platform Engineer

Remote - Colombia, Mexico, Argentina3w ago

Remote Senior LATAM Fintech Cloud Computing Platform Engineer Bash Python Docker Linux Cloudflare

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, or Site Reliability Engineering. • Strong hands-on experience with AWS services: ECS, Lambda, VPC, RDS, CloudWatch, and IAM. • Solid experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation. • Experience with Docker and container orchestration technologies. • Strong Linux, networking, and cloud security fundamentals. • Experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL administration and performance optimization. • Hands-on experience with Cloudflare services and security best practices. • Familiarity with Vercel and frontend deployment workflows. • Experience with monitoring and observability platforms (Datadog, Grafana, or Prometheus). • Scripting skills in Bash, Python, or similar languages. • Strong ownership mindset and problem-solving skills. • Intermediate English communication skills/ Fluent in spanish (written and spoken). • Experience in fintech or high-availability production environments. • Experience with microservices and event-driven architectures. • AWS certifications. • Experience with AI-assisted engineering workflows and automation. • Knowledge of Redis, Snowflake, or distributed systems architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar). • Manage and optimize AWS infrastructure using ECS, Lambda, VPC, RDS, S3, and CloudWatch. • Implement Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform or CloudFormation. • Build and maintain containerized environments using Docker and orchestration platforms such as ECS or Kubernetes. • Monitor infrastructure health, application performance, reliability, and cost efficiency across production environments. • Improve database reliability and performance for PostgreSQL and MySQL environments. • Implement and maintain observability solutions, logging, monitoring, and alerting systems. • Collaborate with engineering teams to improve deployment workflows, scalability, and operational excellence. • Enhance platform security and performance using Cloudflare (CDN, WAF, DNS, DDoS protection). • Support and optimize deployments on Vercel and modern frontend hosting platforms. • Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements. • Leverage AI-assisted tools and automation to improve infrastructure operations, monitoring, and developer productivity. • Document processes, standards, and infrastructure decisions while continuously proposing improvements.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work on high-impact fintech products used by thousands of users. • Modern cloud-native infrastructure and engineering practices. • AI-driven engineering culture focused on automation and operational excellence. • 100% remote role — open to candidates in Colombia or Argentina. • Collaboration with a strong multidisciplinary engineering team. • Exposure to modern infrastructure, scalability, observability, and cloud technologies.