(Senior) Platform Engineer - Real-Time Infrastructure - Banking (m/f/x)
Scalable Capital GmbH4 days ago
Munich, GermanySenior
Responsibilities
- Own infrastructure end to end across AWS and physical environments, including Linux hosts, networking, containers, and runtime operations.
- Design and improve infrastructure for performance-sensitive services using production-like benchmarks for throughput, burst behavior, and tail latency.
- Design, operate, and troubleshoot network paths across VPCs, routing, security groups, load balancers, DNS, private connectivity, and service-to-service communication.
- Build and improve infrastructure as code, host lifecycle management, and deployment workflows across development, staging, and production.
- Improve reliability, failover, recovery, deployment safety, and operational controls across Linux runtimes, containers, serverless workloads, event-driven flows, and scheduled processing.
- Harden platform capabilities around IAM, KMS, secrets, service connectivity, and secure operational access.
- Improve observability through 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.
- Experience with dedicated host strategies, low-latency networking, CPU pinning, and host-level isolation techniques.
- Strong experience owning production infrastructure for distributed or real-time systems.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS, especially EC2, VPC networking, IAM, KMS, S3, SQS, SNS, and related operational tooling.
- Strong networking experience, including routing, DNS, load balancers, network security, service connectivity, and debugging complex production traffic paths.
- Strong experience with Terraform and infrastructure lifecycle management.
- Deep knowledge of Linux systems, containers, runtime debugging, and host-level performance tuning.
- Experience operating workloads where predictability and tail latency matter, beyond average throughput.
- 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, and inclusive team environment with knowledge-sharing and career-development sessions.
- Individual education budget and free German language classes.
- International relocation support if required.
- Opportunity to work from abroad.
- Attractive compensation package and company pension scheme.
- Company contribution covering 50% of the Deutschland Jobticket.
- Complimentary Scalable Capital PRIME+ Broker subscription with no order commissions.
- Flexible and discounted sports activities through Urban Sports Club.
- Latest hardware and tools.