Senior Platform Engineer
SumUpPayments company
Boulder, United States$160K - $185KSenior
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About the role
TL;DR
Design and implement infrastructure-as-code solutions and act as a technical bridge between US and global platform teams.
- •The US Platform team is the engineering backbone that keeps SumUp's product teams moving.
- •As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be the primary technical bridge between the US Platform team and the global Platform Infrastructure organization, ensuring shared standards and a unified roadmap.
- •Key Responsibilities Design and implement infrastructure-as-code solutions.
- •Act as the technical connector between US and global Platform teams.
- •Improve monitoring, observability, and incident response processes.
- •Build internal tooling and self-service capabilities.
- •Lead the migration of US infrastructure into a unified platform.
- •Requirements ~8+ years of experience in platform, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering.
- •Deep expertise in AWS services and advanced Kubernetes.
- •Strong proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation) and CI/CD.
- •Experience with service mesh technologies, observability platforms, and Go, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
- •Comfort working across globally distributed teams.
Required skills
AWSKubernetesTerraformCloudFormationCI/CDGoPythonJavaScriptTypeScriptPrometheusGrafana
Nice-to-have skills
JenkinsGitHub ActionsArgoCD
Domain expertise
fintechdeveloper-tools
Benefits & perks
Stock Option Plan participation, Annual L&D budget, 22 days of paid vacation, Quarterly Wellness Days, Special leaves, Health and life coverage, 401(k) with SumUp matching, 1-month sabbatical after 3 years of service, Referral Bonus
Tech stack
AWSKubernetesTerraformCloudFormationJenkinsGitHub ActionsArgoCDPrometheusGrafanaGoPythonJavaScriptTypeScript