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SeniorFull-timeAWSKubernetesTerraformPostgreSQLRedisCI/CDGit
Salary Range
$132,600 - $179,400 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
We are looking for a Platform Engineer to join Finch's Platform team, which owns the infrastructure and developer experience that powers our engineering organization. This is a high-impact role with a mix of greenfield work and infrastructure improvements that enable the entire company to move faster and more reliably.
Key Responsibilities
- →Lead critical infrastructure projects and drive architectural decisions across multiple teams
- →Establish platform engineering standards and partner with product teams on reliability, performance, and architecture
- →Be hands-on with AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, internal tooling, and application layer
- →Communicate platform priorities and trade-offs to engineering leadership
- →Mentor other engineers who need technical guidance
Requirements
- ✓7+ years of backend/infrastructure engineering, with 3+ years in platform/SRE/DevOps roles
- ✓Experience managing large backlogs and making prioritization trade-offs
- ✓Proven ability to stabilize unreliable systems (CI, infrastructure, observability)
- ✓Mentorship experience—guiding engineers who need technical leadership
- ✓Strong communication skills to advocate for platform needs and explain trade-offs
- ✓Comfort with ambiguity and autonomy—defining what "good" looks like
- ✓Ability to balance tech debt paydown with new feature delivery
- ✓Experience working with NodeJS, PostgreSQL, and Redis, or similar, at scale
- ✓Strong debugging skills across application, infrastructure, and networking
- ✓Strong knowledge of testing best practices. TDD is a bonus.
- ✓CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions or equivalent)
- ✓Experience working AWS Services and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform strongly preferred)
- ✓Kubernetes (deployments, scaling, troubleshooting, security)
- ✓Experience using a distributed messaging system
- ✓Observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
