Senior Platform Engineer (DevOps)
<h1><strong>Senior Platform Engineer (DevOps)</strong></h1> <h2><strong>About Us</strong></h2> <p><strong>Are you ready to shape the financial future of a rapidly growing fintech that's transforming lives across Southeast Asia and beyond?</strong></p> <p>We're not your typical company — we're a rocketship! At <strong>FINN</strong>, established in 2022 by experienced serial founders, we're on a mission to transform financial well-being for underbanked employees. Our product provides early wage access, financial education, budgeting tools, part-time job opportunities, and micro-insurances. We've hit product-market fit and are scaling aggressively across multiple markets.</p> <h2><strong>The Role</strong></h2> <p>We're looking for a <strong>Senior Platform Engineer</strong> to join our small, growing Platform team and help scale our infrastructure across multiple markets. This is a hands-on, high-impact role where you'll own critical cloud infrastructure serving hundreds of thousands of users across Southeast Asia and Africa.</p> <p>You'll be part of the Platform squad — responsible for platform-level infrastructure, shared services, observability, and security tooling. We're in the middle of a major infrastructure maturity push: closing IaC gaps, hardening CI/CD, improving observability, and preparing our platform for rapid expansion across multiple markets in Southeast Asia and Africa.</p> <p>This isn't a role where you maintain dashboards. You'll architect, build, and operate the infrastructure that powers a high-growth fintech with high-throughput production systems.</p> <h2><strong>What You'll Do</strong></h2> <ul> <li><strong>Own and operate</strong> cloud infrastructure — compute, networking, identity, and security controls — using Infrastructure-as-Code</li> <li><strong>Manage container orchestration</strong> workloads, including cluster upgrades, deployment management, and autoscaling</li> <li><strong>Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines</strong> — automated testing, deployment automation, and quality gates</li> <li><strong>Drive observability</strong> — implement and improve monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing across all services</li> <li><strong>Harden security posture</strong> — cloud security posture management, automated scanning in CI, access policies, network security, and contributing toward industry security certifications</li> <li><strong>Manage multi-cloud infrastructure</strong> — we run workloads across multiple cloud providers</li> <li><strong>Operate messaging infrastructure</strong> — event-driven architectures, including retry strategies and dead-letter queue management</li> <li><strong>Standardize market launches</strong> — build repeatable infrastructure provisioning so new markets can go live in days, not weeks</li> <li><strong>Support the engineering team</strong> — be the go-to person for infrastructure questions, unblock developers, and create self-service tooling</li> <li><strong>Participate in on-call rotation</strong> — respond to production incidents and drive root-cause analysis and prevention</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Must-Have Experience</strong></h2> <ul> <li><strong>5+ years</strong> in a DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering role</li> <li><strong>Strong cloud infrastructure expertise</strong> — compute, networking, identity management, queuing, monitoring, storage, and databases (we use AWS primarily)</li> <li><strong>Container orchestration in production</strong> — cluster operations, package management, debugging, resource management (we use Kubernetes)</li> <li><strong>Infrastructure-as-Code at scale</strong> — writing, reviewing, and managing IaC with proper state management and modularization (we use Terraform)</li> <li><strong>CI/CD pipeline design</strong> — deployment automation, testing integration, and deployment strategies (blue-green, canary)</li> <li><strong>Linux systems administration</strong> — comfortable debugging at the OS level</li> <li><strong>Monitoring and observability</strong> — setting up alerting, dashboards, log aggregation, and incident response</li> <li><strong>Security mindset</strong> — experience with access control best practices, network security, secrets management</li> <li><strong>Strong communication</strong> — able to explain infrastructure decisions to non-infra engineers</li> <li><strong>Reliable internet and hardware</strong>, able to work ≥40h/week with decent overlap with UTC+8 (Singapore time)</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Nice-to-Have</strong></h2> <ul> <li><strong>Multi-cloud</strong> experience (GCP, Firebase, or similar alongside AWS)</li> <li><strong>GitOps</strong> deployment experience (e.g. ArgoCD or similar)</li> <li><strong>Event streaming</strong> operations and tuning (e.g. Kafka)</li> <li><strong>Compliance frameworks</strong> — ISO 27001, SOC 2, or similar</li> <li><strong>Cost optimization</strong> — experience reducing cloud spend without sacrificing reliability</li> <li><strong>Pen testing coordination</strong> or security audit experience</li> <li>Experience at a <strong>fintech or financial services</strong> company</li> <li>Experience with <strong>multi-region or multi-market</strong> infrastructure</li> </ul> <h2><strong>What We Use Today</strong></h2> <p>Here's what we work with today — familiarity is a bonus, not a requirement:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Cloud</strong>: AWS (primary) + GCP/Firebase</li> <li><strong>Orchestration</strong>: Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, ArgoCD</li> <li><strong>IaC</strong>: Terraform</li> <li><strong>CI/CD</strong>: GitHub Actions</li> <li><strong>Messaging</strong>: Kafka, SQS</li> <li><strong>Monitoring</strong>: Grafana, Sentry, CloudWatch</li> <li><strong>Security</strong>: Prowler, Trivy, SonarCloud, Cloudflare WAF</li> <li><strong>Backend</strong>: Node.js/TypeScript, Python, PHP</li> <li><strong>Frontend</strong>: Angular, Ionic/Capacitor</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Why Join</strong></h2> <ul> <li><strong>Real ownership</strong> — you'll shape the infrastructure of a company scaling across continents</li> <li><strong>Small team, big impact</strong> — a growing platform team, no layers of bureaucracy</li> <li><strong>Growth trajectory</strong> — rapidly expanding across Southeast Asia and Africa</li> <li><strong>Modern stack</strong> — container orchestration, IaC, GitOps, event-driven architecture</li> <li><strong>Fully remote</strong> — work from anywhere with good overlap to Asia timezones #EMEA #APJ</li> <li><strong>Competitive salary + meaningful equity</strong> (early-stage package)</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>