Platform Engineer

Scalable GmbH
Austria
4 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Amazon S3 Continuous Integration Software Debugging Linux Domain Name System (DNS) Identity and Access Management Network Security Routing Performance Tuning Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
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Load Balancing Real Time Systems Delivery Pipeline Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Information Technology Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) Terraform Serverless Computing

Job description

This is primarily a platform and infrastructure role. You will work on the runtime and operational environment behind performance-sensitive systems across cloud and physical infrastructure. The scope includes AWS, Linux hosts, networking, containerized runtimes, observability, deployment safety, and, where needed, dedicated hardware.

In this role you will:

  • Own infrastructure end to end across cloud and physical environments, including AWS, Linux hosts, networking, containers, and runtime operations
  • Design and improve infrastructure for performance-sensitive services, supported by repeatable production-like benchmarks covering throughput, burst behaviour, and p50, p95, p99, and p99.9 latency
  • Design, operate, and troubleshoot critical network paths across VPCs, routing, security groups, load balancers, DNS, private connectivity, and service-to-service communication
  • Build and improve infrastructure as code, host lifecycle management, and deployment workflows across development, staging, and production
  • Improve reliability, failover, recovery, and operational safety across Linux-based runtimes, containers, serverless workloads, event-driven flows, and scheduled processing
  • Harden platform capabilities around IAM, KMS, secrets, service connectivity, and secure operational access
  • Raise the standard of observability through dashboards, alerting, tracing, health checks, readiness checks, and incident tooling
  • Partner with software engineers on reusable infrastructure patterns, production readiness, CI/CD, and incident response

Requirements

  • A university degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a comparable practical background
  • Experience with dedicated host strategies, low-latency networking, CPU pinning, host-level isolation techniques
  • Strong experience owning production infrastructure for distributed or real-time systems
  • Strong hands-on experience with AWS, especially EC2, VPC networking, IAM, KMS, S3, SQS, SNS, and related operational tooling
  • Strong hands-on networking experience, including routing, DNS, load balancers, network security, service connectivity, and debugging complex production traffic paths
  • Strong experience with Terraform and infrastructure lifecycle management
  • Deep knowledge of Linux systems, containers, runtime debugging, and host-level performance tuning
  • Experience operating performance-sensitive workloads where predictability and tail-latency matter, not only average throughput
  • Experience with infrastructure patterns for stateful services, active/standby failover, recovery, deployment safety, and controlled cutovers
  • Strong analytical thinking, pragmatic decision-making, and clear communication across engineering and operational stakeholders
  • Nice to have:
  • Experience supporting Rust-based service environments
  • Experience in regulated, security-sensitive, or high-reliability environments

Benefits & conditions

  • Be part of one of the fastest-growing and most visible Fintech startups in Europe, creating innovative services that have a substantial impact on the lives of our customers
  • Work with an international, diverse, inclusive, and ever-growing team that loves creating the best products for our clients
  • Be productive with the latest hardware and tools
  • Learn and grow by joining our in-house knowledge sharing sessions and spending your individual Education Budget
  • Flexible vacation policy and the opportunity to work from abroad
  • Benefit from an attractive compensation package and from the company pension scheme
  • Say goodbye to order commissions and say hello to your complimentary subscription of Scalable Capital’s PRIME+ Broker
  • Enjoy flexible and discounted sports activities with Urban Sports Club

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