Senior Platform Engineer

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Varo Bank

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We're on a mission to bring financial inclusion and opportunity to all.

Mobile Banking • User Interface • Financial Services • Risk Management • Design Research

501 - 1000

Description

• Take ownership of the availability and resiliency of Varo's cloud-based infrastructure; design and maintain disaster recovery scenarios; design self-healing and resiliency patterns • Write and maintain infrastructure as code for core systems (terraform, terraform modules and kubernetes helm charts); build and maintain new platform systems; architect new solutions; build repeatable processes; implement declarative infrastructure • Improve observability and monitoring across Varo's infrastructure by implementing advanced tools and technologies. Create and maintain monitoring dashboards, alerts, and log systems to quickly identify and resolve issues • Help implement advanced observability tools like distributed tracing and anomaly detection for deeper system insights and efficient troubleshooting • Help lead high-profile incidents and facilitate blameless post-mortems • Collaborate with development teams to implement and improve SLIs and SLOs for their services and to promote service ownership. Use monitoring data to drive actionable insights and contribute to incident response strategies • Automate operational tasks to save time and improve accuracy • Write clean and scalable code, software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications.

Requirements

• 9+ years as a Site Reliability, Platform, or Software Engineer • 6+ years of proficiency in one or more high-level languages (such as Python, GoLang, Ruby, Java, or JavaScript) required • Excellent Linux and troubleshooting skills • Experience in building and supporting high-availability cloud environments in AWS • Experience using Infrastructure as code (IaC) and deployment automation with tools such as Terraform, Helm, Gitlab or equivalent • Experience running Kubernetes in production is a must. Istio experience is a plus • Experience required with monitoring, logging and tracing tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger/Tempo, ELK/Loki, OpenTelemetry, Opensearch, and Cloudwatch • Experience instrumenting code (Java/Kotlin, Python, Go, etc.) and creating simple instrumentation frameworks for developers to adopt where auto instrumentation may fall short • Participate in an on-call rotation for after-hours production infrastructure incidents • Experience with SDLC and related tooling • Message Queue/Streams and Database (RDS) experience is a plus