Senior Platform Engineer
PortX is a leading AI-powered data and integration company for modern banking, bringing systems together and data to life through our unified platform for modern integration, governed customer 360 data, and next-generation payments.
We're in strong growth mode, with an opportunity for a Senior Platform Engineer, working in a high-impact environment that's open and rewarding, so it’s a great time to join.
Role overview:
This position is responsible for building applications and tools to manage infrastructure and continuous deployment systems for PortX’s Kubernetes-based hosting platform in AWS. The platform provides highly available and secure microservices API hosting for financial institutions using cloud-native technologies.
Responsibilities include:
- Build and manage secure, highly-available, cloud infrastructure using Pulumi.
- Engineer new platform technologies using a variety of languages and tools.
- Support and enhance our internal platform tooling.
- Regularly update all infrastructure components to ensure platform security.
- Ensure systems meet SOC 2 compliance.
- Create and manage networking integrations with customer networks.
- Perform monitoring and performance tuning of Java, Python, Go, and TypeScript based microservice applications.
- Create documentation and diagrams.
- Evangelize Kubernetes, Docker and infrastructure best practices.
- Support development teams configuring applications to run on the infrastructure.
- Troubleshoot production issues and determine the root cause using industry standard observability tools.
- Troubleshoot networking issues using industry standard tools.
- Collaborate across a variety of technology disciplines in a fast-moving environment.
Technical skills required:
- Strong Troubleshooting and CodeGen AI skills (GitHub Copilot or Claude Code preferred)
- Familiarity with GitOps operating frameworks and best practices
- Common AWS services (IAM, S3, EC2, RDS, ElastiCache)
- AWS
VPC networking (subnets, routing, multi-AZ) - Kubernetes (5+ years) in production at scale) (preferably EKS)
- Docker (Dockerfile best practices, Multi-stage builds)
- Helm (including Helm chart best practices)
- Common CI systems (GitHub Actions preferred)
- Strong competency with Python and Go
- Linux Shell scripting (5+ years)
- Knowledge and experience working with IaC tools such as Pulumi or Terraform
- Common security best practices
This is a chance to join a fast-growing company at the forefront of AI-powered banking integration and data innovation. You will work in a collaborative, high-impact environment where your technical expertise and customer-facing skills directly influence business growth and customer success. At this stage, ownership isn't a talking point - it's the job. You'll drive your space end to end, which means your time and availability flex with what the work actually needs, not a fixed clock. If that type of environment is energizing rather than exhausting, you'll thrive here. PortX Principles:
- Do Everything with Purpose
- Challenge the Ordinary
- Check your Ego at the Door
Benefits:
- Competitive compensation: attractive equity opportunities at a venture-backed startup
- High Impact Role: Have a direct and immediate impact on revenue & scaling the business
- Insurance (medical, dental, vision)
- 401(k)
- Unlimited PTO
- Be a part of a collaborative and highly motivated team culture where your voice is heard and you're not just a number in a big company
US Citizenship required - No Visa Sponsorship available
