Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Payabli is the Intelligent Fintech Operating System for software platforms. As a Senior Software Engineer, Platform at Payabli, you'll own the infrastructure and developer experience that every engineer at the company builds on top of. You'll define the vision for how we build, test, deploy, and operate our platform on AWS, then execute against it. From CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code to local development and Cloud/Agent development environments, you'll be the person who makes every other engineer faster, safer, and more productive. This is a high-ownership role.

Responsibilities

Own the infrastructure: design, build, and operate Payabli's cloud infrastructure, including architectural decisions around networking, compute, storage, and security; Build the deployment backbone: own and evolve CI/CD pipelines end-to-end, including automated testing, staged rollouts, rollback strategies, and deployment observability; Make local development exceptional: own the local development experience and ensure it mirrors production closely; Enable AI-assisted development: build environments that let engineers use AI coding agents and assistants safely within a PCI-compliant infrastructure; Define and drive the platform roadmap: assess current state, define target state, prioritize infrastructure investments with engineering leadership; Harden everything: PCI-DSS scoping, network segmentation, secrets management, access controls, and audit trails; Instrument and observe: build monitoring, alerting, and observability stack for real-time visibility into system health; Multiply the team: document patterns, write runbooks, and establish infrastructure standards

Requirements

5+ years of professional infrastructure or platform engineering experience; Deep AWS expertise (ECS/EKS, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation/CDK/Terraform); Strong CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar); Infrastructure-as-code fluency; Security-minded by default (network segmentation, least-privilege access, secrets management, encryption at rest and in transit, especially with financial data); Proactive and opinionated; Strong communicator

Nice to have

Prior experience in fintech, payments, or a PCI-DSS-regulated environment; Experience supporting or enabling AI/ML development workflows, coding agents, or LLM-based tooling within engineering teams; Familiarity with the .NET ecosystem and how it runs on AWS (ECS, App Runner, Lambda, etc.); Experience building developer platforms or internal tooling that improved developer velocity in a measurable way; Background with observability stacks (Datadog, Grafana, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry) and on-call/incident response processes; Kubernetes experience, particularly EKS on AWS

Benefits

Competitive salary; Stock options with the potential to unlock more equity as the company grows; Flexible PTO and paid parental leave; Medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401K, HSA, pre-tax savings programs