Senior Platform Engineer

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Senior Platform Engineer in USA

Astra
Full time
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USA
09/10/2026
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Remote

Responsibilities

Own Terraform-based platform infrastructure, including VPC, IAM, networking, CI/CD pipelines, and environment provisioning.
Build and maintain internal developer tooling and service abstractions that help product engineers deploy and operate their code.
Advance observability, metrics collection, monitoring, alerting, and synthetic monitoring for business and financial operations.
Harden CI/CD pipelines through secrets migration and self-service deployment tooling.
Support GCP infrastructure, messaging reliability, dead-letter queue handling, compliance remediation, local development tooling, cost visibility, and infrastructure documentation.
Operate independently on production infrastructure changes and partner closely with product engineering teams.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or backend engineering with significant infrastructure ownership.
Experience building or substantially maturing internal developer tooling, CI/CD systems, or service platforms.
Experience working independently in startup or small-team environments with meaningful infrastructure ownership.
Production experience with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code, preferably GCP; AWS or Azure experience is also relevant.
Strong proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
Experience with container orchestration such as Kubernetes or ECS and building CI/CD pipelines from the ground up.
Backend engineering proficiency in at least one production language such as Go, Python, or TypeScript/Node.
Experience designing and maintaining internal APIs and service abstractions.
Familiarity with observability tools such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry.
Understanding of secrets management, access control, and secure-by-default infrastructure patterns.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred qualifications include fintech or regulated-industry experience, compliance tooling experience, GCP and cross-cloud infrastructure experience, database platform experience, and experience scaling internal platforms.

Benefits

Competitive compensation with equity; compensation details are not specified.
Remote-first culture with flexible working arrangements; hiring is limited to candidates in the U.S.
Professional growth opportunities in compliance and risk management.
Small-team environment with direct impact and mission-driven work in financial infrastructure.

Salary: $190k - $230k/yr

Astra

The all-in-one platform for lightning-fast payments. Astra provides the infrastructure for moving money instantly and securely. Astra’s proprietary, vertically integrated platform allows developers to easily embed real-time payments into their products. Join us! See open positions: https://astraf...

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