Senior Platform Engineer contributing to observability for Kraken's energy management platform. Seeking individual in Tokyo or remote within Japan for a transformative role in the energy sector.
About the role
- Platform Engineer building the foundation for Kikoff's fintech operations as they scale. Collaborating with various teams to automate workflows and enhance infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- You'll be one of our first platform engineers building the foundation for our fintech engineering organization as we scale from startup to enterprise-grade operations.
- Build & Automate: Design self-service infrastructure using AWS (ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda, IAM) and Pulumi/TypeScript, create automation that eliminates manual work, build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for fast, safe deployments.
- Enable & Scale: Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability systems, build documentation and runbooks that empower teams to self-serve, work with product teams to understand friction points.
- Improve & Secure: Balance fintech compliance requirements with developer experience, participate in incident response and postmortems, optimize system performance, scalability, and cost, implement security controls that satisfy regulatory requirements.
- Collaborate: Treat platform as product, gather feedback, measure adoption, drive improvements, partner with engineers and stakeholders to set technical strategy, explain technical decisions clearly to non-technical audiences.
Requirements
- 5+ years infrastructure, platform, or DevOps engineering
- Production AWS (EC2, ECS/Fargate, RDS, S3, Lambda, VPC, IAM)
- Infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi or Terraform- we use Pulumi/TypeScript)
- CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)
- Containers (Docker, ECS, or Kubernetes)
- Monitoring tools (Datadog, Prometheus, CloudWatch, or similar)
- Strong coding skills in Ruby, Python, Go, TypeScript, or similar
- Track record building platforms that teams actually adopted.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage - Kikoff covers the full cost of health insurance for the employee!
- Visa sponsorship available: Kikoff is willing to provide sponsorship for H1-B visas and U.S. green cards for exceptional talent.
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