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Senior Platform Engineer

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2 months ago
Boulder, CO, USASenior

Base Salary

$160k - $185k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement infrastructure-as-code solutions while automating manual processes and improving deployment speed and reliability.
  • Connect the US Platform team with the global Platform Infrastructure team through shared standards, runbooks, and a joint technical roadmap.
  • Improve monitoring, observability, incident response, cross-timezone on-call coordination, and post-mortem practices.
  • Build internal tooling and self-service capabilities that enable product engineering teams to deploy, monitor, and scale services independently.
  • Lead the migration of US infrastructure into a unified platform.

Requirements

  • Approximately 8 or more years of senior-level experience in platform, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering in complex, distributed environments.
  • Deep expertise in AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, and EKS, plus advanced Kubernetes expertise covering cluster design, multi-tenant management, and upgrades.
  • Strong proficiency with Terraform and/or CloudFormation at scale and CI/CD design using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or ArgoCD.
  • Experience with Istio or other service mesh technologies and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenSearch.
  • Proficiency in Go, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
  • Ability to work across globally distributed teams and influence technical and non-technical stakeholders in asynchronous, cross-timezone environments.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $160,000–$185,000 annually, plus participation in a stock option plan.
  • Full-time, office-first work arrangement based in the Boulder, Colorado office.
  • Annual learning and development budget for conferences or further education.
  • 22 days of paid vacation, increasing to 28 days with tenure, plus public holidays, quarterly Wellness Days, and special leaves.
  • Medical coverage through Cigna and Kaiser, plus life insurance.
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company matching.
  • One-month sabbatical after three years of service.
  • Referral bonus program.

Tech Stack

AWSGitHub ActionsGoGrafanaIstioJavaScriptJenkinsKubernetesPrometheusPythonTerraformTypeScript

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About SumUp

1,001-5,000 employees

SumUp builds card readers, point-of-sale apps, and payment tools for small businesses, along with accounts, invoicing, and online checkout. It sells hardware and earns fees on payment processing and subscriptions for software and services such as invoicing and loyalty. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in London, the company serves more than 4 million merchants across 30+ markets, and offers options like payment links and Tap to Pay.

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