Platform Engineer

The Company

Capital Markets Gateway LLC (CMG) is a capital markets-focused fintech transforming global equity capital markets (ECM) through data, technology, and connectivity. As the preferred source for ECM analytics and the first network connecting the buy-side and sell-side for ECM workflows, we are committed to reshaping how capital markets operate. Founded in 2017 by a team of ECM practitioners, CMG has completed three successful fundraising rounds and is backed by a group of the world’s most prestigious financial institutions. The CMG platform is currently relied upon by nearly 150 buy-side firms representing $40 trillion in AUM and 22 global investment banks. For more information, please visit www.cmgx.io.

The Role

We’re looking for a Platform Engineer to help drive our DevOps, infrastructure, reliability, and tooling initiatives. In this role, you’ll join a team responsible for building and maintaining enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure that supports microservices and cloud-native applications running on Kubernetes. You’ll have the opportunity to shape and influence new solutions that improve system reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency, helping ensure our technology runs smoothly and remains highly available for our customers.

Our Engineering Team

The CMG engineering team consists of domain experts who work collaboratively within a culture of cross-domain knowledge sharing. We value engineers who are passionate about modern technologies and best practices. Our engineers are encouraged to challenge the status quo and are constantly seeking improvement and efficiency in our code-base and platform. CMG engineers are empowered to explore solutions using bleeding edge technologies such as AI and bring recommendations to the table. We are in a period of making impactful engineering decisions. As part of our process, we believe in taking the time for research and prototyping - this is critical in making the right decisions. Given the experience of our team, we have naturally adopted best practices from local development, through code review and into production rollouts. Besides the standard pull requests, test automation, code coverage tracking, containerization, and one-click deployments, we are constantly reviewing these foundational components to develop new best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement tools and technologies to provision and configure an enterprise software system hosted in Kubernetes
• Design and implement architecture and networking solutions within Azure
• Automate/script existing processes using languages such as python and bash
• Provision, configure, and maintain cloud resources using Terraform and Terragrunt
• Actively monitor the application environment and respond to incidents
• Conduct root cause analysis for production incidents
• Oversee cloud infrastructure and recommend any potential improvements to technology or process
• Contribute to team planning to solve engineering challenges
• Be a dependable and highly skilled development resource for peers through education and review
• Have a broad awareness of related projects and industry trends, and encourage innovative practices among peers
• Provide detailed feedback and suggestions to team code reviews
• Document and demonstrate solutions through written documentation, diagrams, and readable code

Qualifications

• Kubernetes Container Orchestration, Docker
• Azure cloud infrastructure
• Experience with system monitoring and alerting. Data-driven system improvements using DataDog and/or Grafana
• Experience supporting, configuring, deploying RabbitMQ, Redis, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch
• Experience with CI/CD tools: Github Actions, ArgoCD or Harness
• Experience supporting customer-facing web-delivered software
• Working knowledge of UNIX/Linux
• Bash and Python experience
• Excellent communication skills in English

Our Tech Stack

• Azure as an infrastructure provider.
• Docker + Kubernetes for microservice orchestration using Istio service mesh
• PostgreSQL for relational db, ElasticSearch for indexing, Redis for caching
• DataDog, Grafana and OpenTelemetry for observability
• GitHub for our Version Control and CI (with our own runners)
• CD: Harness and FluxCD
• Terraform and Terragrunt as IaaC
• Python and bash for scripting infrastructure
• React - We’re all in on React - we maintain multiple single-page React apps written in TypeScript
• Latest .NET version for our backend services
• GraphQL - Our standard for API communication is GraphQL served by our DotNet Back-End

Our Values

• We innovate with purpose
• We focus on outcomes vs. output
• We believe diverse and inclusive teams fuel innovation
• We are humble yet candid
• We do right by the customer

What We Offer

• Equity
• Unlimited PTO (28 days including bank holidays + unlimited additional paid leave)
• Comprehensive benefits program managed by Globalization Partners
• Premium life and income protection
• Top private medical and dental insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Pension contributions
• Hybrid work environment (initially remote until office setup is complete)
• Education reimbursement
• Continuous learning opportunities
• Employee referral bonus
• Parental leave

CMG embraces our ongoing commitment to building a culture reflecting the people, perspectives, and passions it represents. We will accept nothing less than equity, inclusion, and belonging for all. With the only constant in life being change, we will always listen, learn, and improve for the betterment of our teams, customers, and communities. CMG is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

• Kubernetes Container Orchestration, Docker
• Azure cloud infrastructure
• Experience with system monitoring and alerting. Data-driven system improvements using DataDog and/or Grafana
• Experience supporting, configuring, deploying RabbitMQ, Redis, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch
• Experience with CI/CD tools: Github Actions, ArgoCD or Harness
• Experience supporting customer-facing web-delivered software
• Working knowledge of UNIX/Linux
• Bash and Python experience
• Excellent communication skills in English

• We focus on outcomes vs. output
• We believe diverse and inclusive teams fuel innovation
• We are humble yet candid
• We do right by the customer

What We Offer

• Equity
• Unlimited PTO (28 days including bank holidays + unlimited additional paid leave)
• Comprehensive benefits program managed by Globalization Partners
• Premium life and income protection
• Top private medical and dental insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Pension contributions
• Hybrid work environment (initially remote until office setup is complete)
• Education reimbursement
• Continuous learning opportunities
• Employee referral bonus
• Parental leave

CMG embraces our ongoing commitment to building a culture reflecting the people, perspectives, and passions it represents. We will accept nothing less than equity, inclusion, and belonging for all. With the only constant in life being change, we will always listen, learn, and improve for the betterment of our teams, customers, and communities. CMG is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. #J-18808-Ljbffr

Capital Markets Gateway LLC (CMG) is a capital markets-focused fintech transforming global equity capital markets (ECM) through data, technology, and connectivity. As the preferred source for ECM analytics and the first network connecting the buy-side and sell-side for ECM workflows, we are committed to reshaping how capital markets operate. Founded in 2017 by a team of ECM practitioners, CMG has completed three successful fundraising rounds and is backed by a group of the world’s most prestigious financial institutions. The CMG platform is currently relied upon by nearly 150 buy-side firms representing $40 trillion in AUM and 22 global investment banks. For more information, please visit www.cmgx.io., The CMG engineering team consists of domain experts who work collaboratively within a culture of cross-domain knowledge sharing. We value engineers who are passionate about modern technologies and best practices. Our engineers are encouraged to challenge the status quo and are constantly seeking improvement and efficiency in our code-base and platform. CMG engineers are empowered to explore solutions using bleeding edge technologies such as AI and bring recommendations to the table. We are in a period of making impactful engineering decisions. As part of our process, we believe in taking the time for research and prototyping - this is critical in making the right decisions. Given the experience of our team, we have naturally adopted best practices from local development, through code review and into production rollouts. Besides the standard pull requests, test automation, code coverage tracking, containerization, and one-click deployments, we are constantly reviewing these foundational