Platform Engineer

Ebury Madrid Office - Hybrid: 4 days in the office, 1 day working from home

We are looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be working within one of our platform engineering teams to ensure that our platform meets the needs of our customers and business objectives.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and benefits package 
• You’ll have continuous professional growth thanks to our career progression framework with regular reviews
• Discretionary bonus based on performance
• Continued personal development through training and certification
• We are Open Source friendly, following Open Source principles in our internal projects and encouraging contributions to external projects

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate within a Platform Engineering team to guarantee high availability and reliability of our platform.
• Partner with development teams to ensure applications are designed for scalability and reliability.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of new systems and services, ensuring they meet reliability and scalability standards.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure and application monitoring, incident management, and troubleshooting procedures.
• Leverage observability tools to gain insights into system performance and health, and drive improvement decisions.
• Design and implement automation tools and processes to enhance efficiency and minimize downtime.
• Participate in on-call rotation to address critical incidents and ensure system availability.
• Stay current with emerging technologies, tools, and practices in Platform Engineering and infrastructure.

About You:

• Experience building and working with distributed systems.
• Understanding of cloud architecture and application deployment models, ideally on GCP or AWS.
• Experience in operating web-scale deployments of containerized systems using Kubernetes and Amazon Container Services.
• Understanding of programming languages and the systems you have worked on.
• Enthusiasm for writing code, primarily using Python. Prior experience is beneficial, and a willingness to learn is essential.
• Passion for designing large systems with scalable and elegant interfaces.
• Proactive approach to identifying and resolving root causes, and collaborating with code owners to prevent recurrence.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and a commitment to upholding Ebury's values.
• Experience in the FinTech industry would be good. 
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field is nice to have.
• Familiarity with security and compliance requirements (e.g., HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPR, DORA) is a plus.
• Proficiency in Spanish or Portuguese is advantageous.

If you’re excited about this job opportunity but your background doesn’t match exactly the requirements in the job description, we strongly encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other positions we have.

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