Kikoff · 19 hours ago
Senior Platform Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
5+ years expKikoff is a profitable, high-growth FinTech unicorn focused on providing affordable financial tools to consumers. They are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to build foundational internal products that enhance the infrastructure for their engineering organization, ensuring secure and compliant operations while empowering product teams.
CreditFinanceFinancial ServicesFinTechPersonal Finance
Responsibilities
Design self-service infrastructure using AWS (ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda, IAM) and Pulumi/TypeScript
Create automation that eliminates manual work
Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for fast, safe deployments
Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability systems
Build documentation and runbooks that empower teams to self-serve
Work with product teams to understand friction points
Balance fintech compliance requirements with developer experience
Participate in incident response and postmortems
Optimize system performance, scalability, and cost
Implement security controls that satisfy regulatory requirements
Treat platform as product: gather feedback, measure adoption, drive improvements
Partner with engineers and stakeholders to set technical strategy
Explain technical decisions clearly to non-technical audiences
Qualification
Required
5+ years infrastructure, platform, or DevOps engineering
Production AWS (EC2, ECS/Fargate, RDS, S3, Lambda, VPC, IAM)
Infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi or Terraform- we use Pulumi/TypeScript)
CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)
Containers (Docker, ECS, or Kubernetes)
Monitoring tools (Datadog, Prometheus, CloudWatch, or similar)
Strong coding skills in Ruby, Python, Go, TypeScript, or similar
Track record building platforms that teams actually adopted
Preferred
Fintech or regulated industry experience (SOC 2, PCI-DSS)
Security automation or compliance tooling
0→1 infrastructure building experience
Data and ML infrastructure or MLOps background
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision coverage - Kikoff covers the full cost of health insurance for the employee!
Meaningful equity in the form of RSU's
20 days of paid time off per year — we encourage taking real time away to recharge and do your best work
401(k) plan with a meaningful employer match to help you invest in your future
Competitive pay based on experience consisting of base + equity + benefits
Company
Kikoff
Kikoff provides credit building services through secured cards and rent reporting.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2024 (8)
2023 (5)
2022 (2)
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$42.5MKey Investors
Portage VenturesLightspeed Venture Partners
2021-06-10Series B· $30M
2020-07-01Series A· $10M
2019-11-18Seed· $2.5M
Leadership Team
Kevin Otsuka
VP - Product Management and Growth
Patrick Glover
Head of Operations
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