Platform Engineer

Overview

As a Platform Engineer at Lendable, you will build and run multi-account AWS platforms powering our fintech products. You join a tight Platform Engineering team and work with product engineers to deliver reliable, scalable infrastructure. You’ll contribute to design, delivery, and operation of platform capabilities, emphasizing self-service, safety, and fast delivery. This role offers hands-on ownership of platform components and opportunities to shape how engineering teams adopt our tools and practices.

Pay / Benefits

• Flexible, hybrid/remote-friendly working arrangements
• Private health cover
• Retirement savings plans
• Employee referral bonus
• Office meals and snacks at select locations
• In-house meals prepared by chefs on in-office days

Responsibilities

• Build and operate the platform across AWS using Terraform and Terragrunt
• Maintain Kubernetes, GitOps, and observability tooling in production
• Investigate and resolve platform issues including incident response and post-incident improvements
• Share on-call responsibilities with the team
• Enable safe, fast delivery through progressive rollouts, canary deployments and safe rollbacks
• Contribute to CI/CD and developer tooling for a better engineering experience
• Partner with engineering teams on infrastructure, databases and deployment best practices
• Improve self-service capabilities and platform adoption across teams
• Incorporate security into the software delivery lifecycle and policy-as-code
• Work with Platform Engineering and Security teams to improve system safety
• Utilize AI-assisted tooling for code generation, debugging and operations
• Share knowledge via documentation, pairing and code reviews
• Build growing ownership of platform components over time

Key requirements

• Practical experience deploying and supporting Kubernetes-based applications
• Experience with a cloud platform, ideally AWS
• Working knowledge of infrastructure as code, ideally Terraform
• Experience with modern CI/CD tooling
• Scripting in TypeScript/Node, Python or Go
• Strong Linux, networking and security fundamentals
• Experience troubleshooting production systems and operational issues

• Ability to work in small, cross-functional teams
• Curiosity and willingness to learn new tools and practices
• Strong ownership mindset
• Kubernetes
• AWS
• Terraform

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