[Remote] Senior Platform & Security Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Taekus is a profitable fintech and travel startup building a next-generation premium banking and rewards ecosystem for affluent customers. We are seeking a Senior Platform & Security Engineer to own the infrastructure, reliability, and security that everything we build runs on, defining a function from the ground up and setting technical direction as we scale.
Responsibilities
- Own and unify the platform and infrastructure that powers our core products and services
- Treat our engineers as your customers—build the tooling, paved roads, and self-service workflows that let them ship quickly and safely
- Own CI/CD and release automation, keeping the path to production fast, reliable, and observable
- Own feature-flag, configuration, and secrets infrastructure, along with the reliability of our background-job, caching, and queue systems (Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ)
- Improve observability and operational health across services through structured logging, error monitoring, and APM, and share in the on-call rotation for platform and infrastructure services
- Own the platform's security guardrails—secrets management, IAM and access control, PCI/PII data handling, and vulnerability management
- Own and automate compliance and audit readiness (PCI-DSS, SOC 2, partner security reviews), coordinating external auditors and making the process repeatable
- Set technical direction for platform and security, driving toward infrastructure-as-code over time
Skills
- 6+ years of professional engineering experience, with a strong platform, infrastructure, or backend focus
- Deep, hands-on AWS experience (EKS/Kubernetes, EC2, Lambda, RDS) in high-availability production environments
- Strong CI/CD and release-engineering background, with containerization using Docker and Kubernetes, and a track record of building tooling that improves developer experience (Terraform a plus)
- Comfort working in a Python/Django codebase (Celery, Redis, PostgreSQL), able to read and contribute to platform code
- Experience with modern observability and monitoring tooling across logging, error tracking, and APM
- A security-minded engineer fluent in secrets management, IAM/access control, and dependency hygiene, ideally with hands-on PCI-DSS or SOC 2 experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
Benefits
- Competitive salary and stock option plan
- Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with 5% company match
- Flexible vacation policy
- Fully remote work environment
- All required travel will be paid for by Taekus
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