Senior Software Engineer (Platform)

Join Payabli as a Senior Software Engineer, Platform. In this high-ownership role, you'll define the vision for our platform's infrastructure and developer experience, build and operate our cloud infrastructure, own and evolve our CI/CD pipelines, and make local development exceptional. You'll also enable AI-assisted development, define and drive the platform roadmap, harden our infrastructure, instrument and observe system health, and multiply the team's efficiency. Enjoy benefits like medical, dental, and vision insurance, a flexible PTO policy, and stock options.

Security-minded by default. You understand network segmentation, least-privilege access, secrets management, and encryption at rest and in transit—especially in environments handling financial data

Kubernetes experience, particularly EKS on AWS

Responsibilities

• Own the infrastructure and design, build, and operate Payabli's cloud infrastructure, making architectural decisions around networking, compute, storage, and security.
• Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines end-to-end, designing the release process that lets engineers ship with confidence—automated testing, staged rollouts, rollback strategies, and deployment observability.
• Define and drive the platform roadmap, assessing current state, defining future needs, and building the plan to get there, while partnering with engineering leadership to prioritize infrastructure investments.
• Strong CI/CD experience. You've designed and maintained deployment pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar) that teams actually trust and rely on. You understand the difference between a pipeline that exists and one that accelerates the business
• Strong communicator. You can translate infrastructure decisions into business impact for engineering leadership, and explain complex systems clearly to engineers who aren't infrastructure specialists
• Infrastructure-as-code fluency. You define infrastructure declaratively, version it, review it, and deploy it the same way you would application code

Requirements

• Proactive and opinionated. You don't wait for someone to file a ticket. You see what's broken or missing, propose a path forward, and drive it. You bring a point of view about how infrastructure should work and can back it up
• Deep AWS expertise. You think natively in AWS services (ECS/EKS, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation/CDK/Terraform) and understand the trade-offs between them. You've made architectural bets and lived with the consequences
• We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements below. If you meet them, we encourage you to apply. Your skills and trajectory matter more than checking every box
• 5+ years of professional infrastructure or platform engineering experience. You've built and operated production AWS environments that serve real traffic at scale—not just spun up sandbox accounts
• Background with observability stacks (Datadog, Grafana, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry) and on-call/incident response processes
• Familiarity with the .NET ecosystem and how it runs on AWS (ECS, App Runner, Lambda, etc.)
• Experience building developer platforms or internal tooling that improved developer velocity in a measurable way

Preferred

• Experience supporting or enabling AI/ML development workflows, coding agents, or LLM-based tooling within engineering teams
• Prior experience in fintech, payments, or a PCI-DSS-regulated environment. You know how compliance requirements shape infrastructure decisions