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# Senior Platform Engineer

- **Company:** SumUp Inc.
- **Location:** Boulder, CO, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $160,000.0 - $185,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Github, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Prometheus, TypeScript, Istio, Grafana, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloudformation, Amazon Relational Database Service, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins
- **Published:** August 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=57b4b8208d73f6c8

## About the Role

* Proven experience in platform, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering at a senior level in complex, distributed environments (~8+ years)
 * Deep expertise in AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, EKS) and advanced Kubernetes, including cluster design, multi-tenant management, and upgrade strategies
 * Strong proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and/or CloudFormation at scale) and CI/CD design using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or ArgoCD
 * Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio preferred), observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch), and proficiency in Go, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript
 * Comfort working across globally distributed teams, with the communication skills to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders and the mindset to thrive in async, cross-timezone environments

## Description

* Design and implement infrastructure-as-code solutions, driving automation of manual processes and improving deployment speed and reliability across the US engineering organization
 * Act as the technical connector between the US Platform team and the global Platform Infrastructure team, establishing shared standards, runbooks, and a joint technical roadmap
 * Improve our monitoring, observability, and incident response processes, including cross-timezone on-call coordination and post-mortem practices
 * Build internal tooling and self-service capabilities that help product engineering teams deploy, monitor, and scale services independently
 * Lead the migration of US infrastructure into a unified, cohesive platform, treating our internal platform surfaces with the same intentionality we bring to customer-facing products


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