Platform Engineer

Position overview

As a Platform Engineer at Xapo, you would be joining a team whose core mission is to improve and maintain Xapo's cloud-native platform. The focus is on enhancing self-serve functionality and driving automation wherever possible. Your role is to help empower Xapo's developers by making the platform more efficient, reliable, and easier to use, allowing them to ship products faster and with greater confidence.

This position offers a significant opportunity to learn and grow by contributing directly to the systems that increase developer velocity and operational excellence.

 

Responsibilities

The team's primary responsibility is to act as stewards and enhancers of the existing developer platform.

• Team Goals
  • To maintain and improve a cloud-native platform.
  • To expand the platform's self-service capabilities, allowing engineering teams to manage their resources and workflows independently.
  • To aggressively automate manual processes to reduce toil, increase reliability, and improve developer efficiency.-
  • To ensure the platform remains highly observable, scalable, and secure as it evolves.
  • Monitoring and proactively managing the infrastructure to meet its requirements.
  • Ensure continuous service availability and operational integrity 24/7, which includes participation in a compensated on-call rotation.

 

• Tools and Technologies
  • Terraform
  • AWS (ECS, RDS, SQS, SNS, VPC, KMS, SM)
  • GCP (Datastream, Cloud functions, BigQuery,...)
  • Docker
  • GitHub and GitHub Actions
  • Coralogix/PagerDuty

 

Skills needed

• 3-5 years of experience in platform engineering with skills relevant to the role.
• A foundational understanding of the technologies that power an automated, self-service platform is essential. This includes:
  • Infrastructure as Code:
    TerraformCloud Providers: Primarily AWS (ECS, RDS, SQS, etc.) and some GCP (Cloud Run, BigQuery, etc.)
    Containerization: DockerCI/CD & Automation: Possible experience with pipelines such as GitHub Actions.
    Monitoring & Observability: Tools like Coralogix or similar.
    Scripting: We use Python and Bash for the scripts we integrate into our infrastructure or develop to support our automated tasks
• We welcome a person who is able and eager to contribute to solving common platform issues using established procedures and, more importantly, to identify opportunities for automation within those solutions. This involves thinking beyond the immediate fix to prevent future manual work.

 

Teamwork & Communication

• We welcome teammates who value building strong, collaborative relationships. This includes clearly communicating the status of your work on platform improvements and understanding the needs of
  the developers who use the platform.
• A natural inclination to automate repetitive tasks and continuously look for ways to make processes more efficient for yourself and others is very valuable to us.

 

Other requirements

• A dedicated workspace.
• A reliable internet connection with the fastest speed possible in your area.
• Devices and other essential equipment that meet minimal technical specifications.
• Alignment with Our Values and the Xapo Values-Driven Leadership principles.