Senior Platform Engineer (DevOps)

Senior Platform Engineer (DevOps)

About Us

Are you ready to shape the financial future of a rapidly growing fintech that's transforming lives across Southeast Asia and beyond?

We're not your typical company - we're a rocketship! At FINN, established in 2022 by experienced serial founders, we're on a mission to transform financial well-being for underbanked employees. Our product provides early wage access, financial education, budgeting tools, part-time job opportunities, and micro-insurances. We've hit product-market fit and are scaling aggressively across multiple markets.

The Role

We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our small, growing Platform team and help scale our infrastructure across multiple markets. This is a hands-on, high-impact role where you'll own critical cloud infrastructure serving hundreds of thousands of users across Southeast Asia and Africa.

You'll be part of the Platform squad - responsible for platform-level infrastructure, shared services, observability, and security tooling. We're in the middle of a major infrastructure maturity push: closing IaC gaps, hardening CI/CD, improving observability, and preparing our platform for rapid expansion across multiple markets in Southeast Asia and Africa.

This isn't a role where you maintain dashboards. You'll architect, build, and operate the infrastructure that powers a high-growth fintech with high-throughput production systems.

What You'll Do

• Own and operate cloud infrastructure - compute, networking, identity, and security controls - using Infrastructure-as-Code
• Manage container orchestration workloads, including cluster upgrades, deployment management, and autoscaling
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines - automated testing, deployment automation, and quality gates
• Drive observability - implement and improve monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing across all services
• Harden security posture - cloud security posture management, automated scanning in CI, access policies, network security, and contributing toward industry security certifications
• Manage multi-cloud infrastructure - we run workloads across multiple cloud providers
• Operate messaging infrastructure - event-driven architectures, including retry strategies and dead-letter queue management
• Standardize market launches - build repeatable infrastructure provisioning so new markets can go live in days, not weeks
• Support the engineering team - be the go-to person for infrastructure questions, unblock developers, and create self-service tooling
• Participate in on-call rotation - respond to production incidents and drive root-cause analysis and prevention

Must-Have Experience

• 5+ years in a DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering role
• Strong cloud infrastructure expertise - compute, networking, identity management, queuing, monitoring, storage, and databases (we use AWS primarily)
• Container orchestration in production - cluster operations, package management, debugging, resource management (we use Kubernetes)
• Infrastructure-as-Code at scale - writing, reviewing, and managing IaC with proper state management and modularization (we use Terraform)
• CI/CD pipeline design - deployment automation, testing integration, and deployment strategies (blue-green, canary)
• Linux systems administration - comfortable debugging at the OS level
• Monitoring and observability - setting up alerting, dashboards, log aggregation, and incident response
• Security mindset - experience with access control best practices, network security, secrets management
• Strong communication - able to explain infrastructure decisions to non-infra engineers
• Reliable internet and hardware, able to work ≥40h/week with decent overlap with UTC+8 (Singapore time)

Nice-to-Have

• Multi-cloud experience (GCP, Firebase, or similar alongside AWS)
• GitOps deployment experience (e.g. ArgoCD or similar)
• Event streaming operations and tuning (e.g. Kafka)
• Compliance frameworks - ISO 27001, SOC 2, or similar
• Cost optimization - experience reducing cloud spend without sacrificing reliability
• Pen testing coordination or security audit experience
• Experience at a fintech or financial services company
• Experience with multi-region or multi-market infrastructure

What We Use Today

Here's what we work with today - familiarity is a bonus, not a requirement:

• Cloud: AWS (primary) + GCP/Firebase
• Orchestration: Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, ArgoCD
• IaC: Terraform
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions
• Messaging: Kafka, SQS
• Monitoring: Grafana, Sentry, CloudWatch
• Security: Prowler, Trivy, SonarCloud, Cloudflare WAF
• Backend: Node.js/TypeScript, Python, PHP
• Frontend: Angular, Ionic/Capacitor

Why Join

• Real ownership - you'll shape the infrastructure of a company scaling across continents
• Small team, big impact - a growing platform team, no layers of bureaucracy
• Growth trajectory - rapidly expanding across Southeast Asia and Africa
• Modern stack - container orchestration, IaC, GitOps, event-driven architecture
• Fully remote - work from anywhere with good overlap to Asia timezones #EMEA #APJ
• Competitive salary + meaningful equity (early-stage package)