(Senior) Platform Engineer - Real-Time Infrastructure - Banking (m/f/x)
Scalable Capital GmbH21 hours ago
Vienna, AustriaSenior
Responsibilities
- Own and operate infrastructure across AWS and physical environments, including Linux hosts, networking, containers, and runtime operations.
- Design and benchmark infrastructure for performance-sensitive services using throughput and tail-latency metrics.
- Design, troubleshoot, and improve network paths involving VPCs, routing, DNS, load balancers, private connectivity, and service communication.
- Build infrastructure as code, host lifecycle management, and deployment workflows across development, staging, and production.
- Improve reliability, failover, recovery, deployment safety, and controlled cutovers for Linux, containerized, serverless, event-driven, and scheduled workloads.
- Harden IAM, KMS, secrets management, service connectivity, and secure operational access.
- Improve observability with dashboards, alerting, tracing, health checks, readiness checks, and incident tooling.
- Partner with software engineers on reusable infrastructure patterns, production readiness, CI/CD, and incident response.
Requirements
- A university degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a comparable practical background.
- Strong experience owning production infrastructure for distributed or real-time systems.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, including EC2, VPC networking, IAM, KMS, S3, SQS, SNS, and related operational tooling.
- Strong networking experience covering routing, DNS, load balancers, network security, service connectivity, and complex production traffic debugging.
- Strong experience with Terraform and infrastructure lifecycle management.
- Deep knowledge of Linux systems, containers, runtime debugging, and host-level performance tuning.
- Experience with dedicated host strategies, low-latency networking, CPU pinning, and host-level isolation techniques.
- Experience operating workloads where predictability and tail latency are critical.
- Experience with stateful services, active/standby failover, recovery, deployment safety, and controlled cutovers.
- Strong analytical thinking, pragmatic decision-making, and clear communication across engineering and operational stakeholders.
- Experience supporting Rust-based service environments is preferred.
- Experience in regulated, security-sensitive, or high-reliability environments is preferred.
Benefits
- International, diverse, inclusive, and growing team.
- Latest hardware and tools.
- In-house knowledge-sharing sessions and an individual education budget.
- Flexible vacation policy and the opportunity to work from abroad.
- Attractive compensation package and company pension scheme.
- Complimentary Scalable Capital PRIME+ Broker subscription.
- Flexible and discounted sports activities through Urban Sports Club.
About Scalable Capital GmbH
Scalable Capital builds a digital investing and banking platform for retail customers in Europe, combining brokerage (stocks, ETFs, crypto, derivatives), savings plans, and interest-bearing accounts under a full German banking licence. Its business spans Scalable Broker subscriptions and fees, and Scalable Wealth, a managed ETF portfolio service also offered as a white‑label solution to banks. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Munich, it operates across multiple European markets.