Platform & Reliability Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Platform & Reliability Engineer (Fintech): Designing, scaling, and operating high-load payment systems on a serverless GCP stack with an accent on system reliability, SLO management, and CI/CD automation. Focus on optimizing performance, minimizing latency, and building robust observability frameworks in a fast-paced fintech environment.

Location: Singapore (Onsite)

Company

A fast-growing, Sequoia-backed fintech startup building a universal payment layer for fiat and crypto currencies.

What you will do

• Define and track SLOs and error budgets for payment APIs to ensure high availability.
• Implement observability tools and integrated alerting systems for incident management.
• Establish blameless postmortems and runbooks to improve system resilience.
• Codify CI/CD pipelines and automated canary rollouts for cloud-native services.
• Manage GCP infrastructure while embedding security and cost controls.
• Profile system performance and optimize database interactions to maintain sub-100ms latency.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in platform, reliability, or infrastructure engineering.
• Hands-on proficiency with GCP services, infrastructure as code, and automation.
• Strong coding skills in Python or Go.
• Experience with observability, CI/CD, and modern cloud-native architectures.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Work visa sponsorship is available for this position.

Nice to have

• Prior experience in the fintech industry.
• Knowledge of PCI-DSS compliance standards.
• Experience with crypto settlement flows.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity plan.
• 21 days of paid time off.
• Annual medical allowance and wellness subsidy.
• Productivity budget and gym membership.
• Annual team retreat trips.