Senior Platform Engineer (Real-Time Infrastructure - Banking)
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Summary
Senior platform/infrastructure engineer at Scalable Capital owning the runtime environment behind performance-sensitive banking systems across AWS and physical infrastructure. Focus areas include Linux hosts, networking, containers, Terraform IaC, observability, deployment safety, and low-latency tuning for real-time services.
- 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
- 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
Benefits
- Remote working opportunities - collaborate with your team no matter where you are in Germany: the majority of our jobs can be done working from home. So if you aren’t near one of our physical locations in Germany, check out if your job is eligible remotely
- Join an international and diverse, inclusive community - be part of a network of highly talented, diverse and motivated people, from more than 30 nationalities. We enjoy regular office parties & after work drinks, BBQs in the summer, weekly runs and much more
- Lounge around - take a break to relax on our terrace in Munich or in the Beergarden downstairs in Berlin. Enjoy fresh fruits, soft drinks, and tea daily, and if want, develop your Barista skills with our Espresso machine
- Gear and perks - work with the latest hardware (including a MacBook Pro or equivalent and your choice of headphones). We also support your workplace with the equipment that you need, either in the offices or at home
- Learn and grow - develop yourself further with a personal education budget and in-house knowledge sharing sessions with catered lunch. If you want to learn or improve your German language skills, you will like the free classes right in the office or our support for online classes
- Have an impact - ship features to thousands of users and work with leading financial institutions across Europe on a regular basis. Transform with us the traditional finance industry with the aim of democratizing investment management and brokerage
- Experience with infrastructure patterns for stateful services, active/standby failover, recovery, deployment safety, and controlled cutovers
- Strong experience with Terraform and infrastructure lifecycle management
- Strong experience owning production infrastructure for distributed or real-time systems
- Strong hands-on networking experience, including routing, DNS, load balancers, network security, service connectivity, and debugging complex production traffic paths
- Deep knowledge of Linux systems, containers, runtime debugging, and host-level performance tuning
- Strong analytical thinking, pragmatic decision-making, and clear communication across engineering and operational stakeholders
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS, especially EC2, VPC networking, IAM, KMS, S3, SQS, SNS, and related operational tooling
- Experience with dedicated host strategies, low-latency networking, CPU pinning, host-level isolation techniques
- A university degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a comparable practical background
- Experience operating performance-sensitive workloads where predictability and tail-latency matter, not only average throughput
- Experience supporting Rust-based service environments
- Experience in regulated, security-sensitive, or high-reliability environments