Job Summary:
Kikoff is a profitable, pre-IPO fintech company on a mission to empower everyone to achieve financial security. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will build the foundation for the fintech engineering organization by creating self-service tools and automated workflows to enhance the infrastructure for product teams.
Responsibilities:
โข Design self-service infrastructure using AWS (ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda, IAM) and Pulumi/TypeScript
โข Create automation that eliminates manual work
โข Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for fast, safe deployments
โข Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability systems
โข Build documentation and runbooks that empower teams to self-serve
โข Work with product teams to understand friction points
โข Balance fintech compliance requirements with developer experience
โข Participate in incident response and postmortems
โข Optimize system performance, scalability, and cost
โข Implement security controls that satisfy regulatory requirements
โข Treat platform as product: gather feedback, measure adoption, drive improvements
โข Partner with engineers and stakeholders to set technical strategy
โข Explain technical decisions clearly to non-technical audiences
Qualifications:
Required:
โข 5+ years infrastructure, platform, or DevOps engineering
โข Production AWS (EC2, ECS/Fargate, RDS, S3, Lambda, VPC, IAM)
โข Infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi or Terraform- we use Pulumi/TypeScript)
โข CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)
โข Containers (Docker, ECS, or Kubernetes)
โข Monitoring tools (Datadog, Prometheus, CloudWatch, or similar)
โข Strong coding skills in Ruby, Python, Go, TypeScript, or similar
โข Track record building platforms that teams actually adopted
Preferred:
โข Fintech or regulated industry experience (SOC 2, PCI-DSS)
โข Security automation or compliance tooling
โข 0โ1 infrastructure building experience
โข Data and ML infrastructure or MLOps background
Company:
Kikoff provides credit building services through secured cards and rent reporting. Founded in 2019, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.