Astra - Senior Platform Engineer
Requirements
• 5+ years in a platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or backend engineering role with significant infrastructure ownership • Experience building or significantly maturing internal developer tooling, CI/CD systems, or service platforms, rather than only operating within an already-mature setup • Experience operating in a startup or small-team environment where you own meaningful infrastructure surface area and there isn't always a playbook • Direct experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred, AWS or Azure also relevant) in production, including infrastructure-as-code • Track record of partnering closely with product engineering teams to unblock their work, not just maintaining infrastructure in isolation • Comfort operating independently on production infra (Terraform, IAM, CI/CD) without heavy review • Education • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. • Strong proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi) • Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS, or similar) and building CI/CD pipelines from the ground up • Solid backend engineering skills in at least one production language (e.g., Go, Python, TypeScript/Node) for building internal services and tooling • Experience designing and maintaining internal APIs and service abstractions used by other engineers • Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g., Datadog, Grafana/Prometheus, OpenTelemetry) and how platform decisions affect reliability and debuggability • Understanding of secrets management, access control, and secure-by-default infrastructure patterns • Prior experience in fintech, payments, banking-as-a-service, or another regulated industry where infrastructure decisions carry real financial or compliance consequences • Experience building platform tooling that supports compliance requirements (e.g., audit logging, data retention, access controls) alongside developer velocity • Experience with GCP specifically, and with cross-cloud (GCP/AWS) infrastructure work • Familiarity with database platform work (provisioning, migrations tooling, backup/replication strategy) in addition to application infrastructure • Experience scaling internal platforms through a period of rapid engineering team or transaction growth
Responsibilities
• Own pieces of core platform infrastructure, including the Terraform migration (VPC, IAM, networking), CI/CD pipelines, and environment provisioning, as part of a growing infrastructure team • Build and maintain the tooling and abstractions that let product engineers ship and run their own code without solving infrastructure problems from scratch • Advance our observability foundation, including remaining service instrumentation and building out our metrics collection pipeline • Standardize monitoring and alerting, including business and financial operations metrics and synthetic monitoring • Harden CI/CD pipelines, including secrets migration and building self-service deployment tooling • Support GCP infrastructure work as our platform scales, including dead-letter queue handling and other reliability pieces of our messaging system • Help build out compliance remediation tooling, local dev/onboarding tooling, GCP cost visibility, and infra architecture documentation as these needs are validated • Operate independently on production infrastructure changes, since most of this work is scoped execution rather than architecture-setting
Benefits
• $190K – $230K • Offers Equity • Astra is building mission-critical infrastructure for moving money at scale. Our platform processes billions in annual transaction volume with 99.9%+ uptime, powering real-time transfers, bank debits, card disbursements, and complex financial compliance systems. We provide APIs and automation tools that enable businesses to move money programmatically while maintaining strict regulatory requirements. • Every engineer at Astra ships faster or slower based on the platform underneath them, and this role adds capacity to a growing team • You'll have direct influence over how we execute against a real, scoped backlog, without layers of process standing between you and the outcome • This role enables Terraform migrations, CI/CD hardening, and observability work to move in parallel and helps our internal tooling as our platform scales • Competitive compensation with equity in a growing fintech company. • Remote-first culture with flexible working arrangements • Small team, big impact — your work directly supports Astra’s ability to scale responsibly • Professional growth opportunities in compliance and risk management • Mission-driven — build infrastructure that powers financial innovation while meeting the highest regulatory standards • Remote Work and Culture
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