2 days ago
Mexico (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Own one or more core platform systems covering CI/CD and deployments, infrastructure as code and multi-account governance, or observability and incident tooling.
- Drive platform initiatives involving infrastructure hardening, delivery excellence, reliability, incident management, AI platform infrastructure, and seasonality hardening.
- Lead incident response and post-mortems, improve runbooks and escalation paths, and strengthen reliability metrics.
- Design and deliver scalable infrastructure and platform improvements from conception through production.
- Reduce operational toil by identifying and automating recurring KTLO work.
- Lead design reviews, RFCs, technical talks, hiring interviews, and mentoring for E1–E3 engineers.
- Partner with engineering squads to scope platform work and communicate risks, dependencies, trade-offs, and business impact.
- Use observability and cross-service debugging to improve availability, DORA metrics, MTTR, and cloud cost.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of DevOps, platform, infrastructure, or SRE engineering experience with production ownership.
- Demonstrated ownership of entire systems or large cross-team initiatives and experience leading incident response and consequential post-mortems.
- Experience mentoring engineers and leading design discussions through influence.
- Strong expertise with Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation.
- Deep knowledge of CI/CD systems, trunk-based development, feature flags, canary deployments, and blue-green deployments.
- Hands-on AWS experience, including ECS, Fargate, EC2, Lambda, RDS/PostgreSQL, ElastiCache, SQS, Kinesis, IAM, and VPC networking.
- Experience with AWS Organizations or Control Tower, multi-account governance, and cross-account resource migrations.
- Proficiency with observability practices and tools for metrics, logs, traces, and alerting; Datadog is preferred.
- Ability to automate with Python, Go, Bash, or Node.js/TypeScript.
- Understanding of cloud security, secret management, compliance requirements, and regulated infrastructure decisions.
- Strong communication skills in Spanish with working English for vendor and partner interactions.
- Preferred qualifications include GCP, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, MongoDB Atlas, fintech or payments experience, FinOps, infrastructure hardening, incident management programs, AI/ML workload infrastructure, DORA metrics, or relevant AWS professional certification.
Benefits
- Senior individual contributor path with real technical ownership and the option to move to the Tech Lead Manager track later.
- Opportunity to own infrastructure supporting financial inclusion across Latin America in a high-growth fintech.
- Work at the intersection of infrastructure, delivery, and business impact with a team experienced at Uber, Google, Rappi, and Stitch Fix.
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About Aplazo
Aplazo builds a buy now, pay later platform for physical and digital merchants, enabling customers to split purchases into installments at online and in-store checkout. It partners with merchants for payment processing and offers marketing tools that integrate with ecommerce and point-of-sale systems. Headquartered in Mexico City, the privately held company serves the Mexican market and raised a Series B in 2024.