Senior Platform Engineer
Astra · Full-time · Posted 3d ago
Astra is building mission-critical infrastructure for moving money at scale. Our platform processes billions in annual transaction volume with 99.9%+ uptime, powering real-time transfers, bank debits, card disbursements, and complex financial compliance systems. We provide APIs and automation tools that enable businesses to move money programmatically while maintaining strict regulatory requirements.
Astra is the instant payments API powering money movement for fintech, banking, and marketplace products. Every transaction that runs through our systems is real money moving in real time, and the infrastructure underneath our product is what lets our engineering team ship quickly without breaking the systems that depend on it. As a Platform Engineer at Astra, you'll build and own core infrastructure and tooling: Terraform, CI/CD, environment provisioning, and the abstractions engineers rely on to ship and run their own code. You'll work hands-on across infrastructure-as-code, deploy tooling, and observability, partnering directly with product engineers rather than sitting behind a large platform org with layers of process. This role suits someone who's energized by building leverage for other engineers, comfortable owning meaningful infrastructure surface area, and motivated by the stakes of doing this well in a regulated, real-money environment.
Own pieces of core platform infrastructure, including the Terraform migration (VPC, IAM, networking), CI/CD pipelines, and environment provisioning, as part of a growing infrastructure team
Build and maintain the tooling and abstractions that let product engineers ship and run their own code without solving infrastructure problems from scratch
Advance our observability foundation, including remaining service instrumentation and building out our metrics collection pipeline
Standardize monitoring and alerting, including business and financial operations metrics and synthetic monitoring
Harden CI/CD pipelines, including secrets migration and building self-service deployment tooling
Support GCP infrastructure work as our platform scales, including dead-letter queue handling and other reliability pieces of our messaging system
Help build out compliance remediation tooling, local dev/onboarding tooling, GCP cost visibility, and infra architecture documentation as these needs are validated
Operate independently on production infrastructure changes, since most of this work is scoped execution rather than architecture-setting
Required Experience
5+ years in a platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or backend engineering role with significant infrastructure ownership
Experience building or significantly maturing internal developer tooling, CI/CD systems, or service platforms, rather than only operating within an already-mature setup
Experience operating in a startup or small-team environment where you own meaningful infrastructure surface area and there isn't always a playbook
Direct experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred, AWS or Azure also relevant) in production, including infrastructure-as-code
Track record of partnering closely with product engineering teams to unblock their work, not just maintaining infrastructure in isolation
Comfort operating independently on production infra (Terraform, IAM, CI/CD) without heavy review
Education
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Technical Skills
Strong proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi)
Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS, or similar) and building CI/CD pipelines from the ground up
Solid backend engineering skills in at least one production language (e.g., Go, Python, TypeScript/Node) for building internal services and tooling
Experience designing and maintaining internal APIs and service abstractions used by other engineers
Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g., Datadog, Grafana/Prometheus, OpenTelemetry) and how platform decisions affect reliability and debuggability
Understanding of secrets management, access control, and secure-by-default infrastructure patterns
Preferred Experience
Prior experience in fintech, payments, banking-as-a-service, or another regulated industry where infrastructure decisions carry real financial or compliance consequences
Experience building platform tooling that supports compliance requirements (e.g., audit logging, data retention, access controls) alongside developer velocity
Experience with GCP specifically, and with cross-cloud (GCP/AWS) infrastructure work
Familiarity with database platform work (provisioning, migrations tooling, backup/replication strategy) in addition to application infrastructure
Experience scaling internal platforms through a period of rapid engineering team or transaction growth
Every engineer at Astra ships faster or slower based on the platform underneath them, and this role adds capacity to a growing team
You'll have direct influence over how we execute against a real, scoped backlog, without layers of process standing between you and the outcome
This role enables Terraform migrations, CI/CD hardening, and observability work to move in parallel and helps our internal tooling as our platform scales
Competitive compensation with equity in a growing fintech company.
Remote-first culture with flexible working arrangements
Small team, big impact — your work directly supports Astra’s ability to scale responsibly
Professional growth opportunities in compliance and risk management
Mission-driven — build infrastructure that powers financial innovation while meeting the highest regulatory standards
Astra is a remote-first company hiring only within the U.S. We value thoughtful collaboration, clarity, and initiative. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.