Staff Platform Engineer

Working At Bitso

We are a diverse team that takes pride in understanding the perspectives of others. We fully embrace working remotely and we are eager to act, improve and accelerate progress inside and outside of our organization.

To drive revolutionary changes in society and make crypto useful, we delight our customers with world-class products, deep care, and intentional empathy.

Your Purpose 

As a Platform Engineer you will be in charge of building self-service functionalities to enable our backend, frontend and mobile developers so they can ship products faster  and will be helping improve the reliability, monitoring and scalability of our platform.

Reports To

Engineering Manager

Who You Are 

As the Senior Platform Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining our software platforms. This position demands a deep understanding of backend engineering, cloud technologies, continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) tools, and container orchestration.

 

• Backend Engineering Expertise: Minimum of 6 years experience designing, building and writing automated tests (unit, integration, end-to-end, etc.) for complex, distributed backend systems, preferably with either Java or Go.
• Cloud Technologies: At least 4 years of hands-on experience with cloud technologies, with a strong preference for AWS.
• Continuous Integration Tools: Extensive experience with multiple CI tools such as AWS CodeBuild, GitHub Actions,Gradle and CircleCI.
• Continuous Deployment Tools: In-depth experience with CD tools, preferably ArgoCD.
• Container Orchestration: At least 4 years of experience working with Kubernetes.
• Monitoring and Logging: Proficiency with monitoring and logging tools

Ideally:

• Experience with GitOps tooling (specifically ArgoCD)
• Experience developing apps in Golang.

 

What You Will Do 

• Lead the design and development of scalable and reliable platform technologies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new features.
• Optimize and enhance existing systems for performance and scalability.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth and efficient software delivery.
• Drive best practices in code quality, testing, and deployment.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers.

 

Research in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion suggests that individuals may hesitate to apply for jobs if they do not meet all the listed criteria. At Bitso, we value diversity and your unique strengths could be just what we're looking for. If this role excites you but you don't match every point in the description, we still want to hear from you.

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Who We Are

With over 7 million users, Bitso is the leading cryptocurrency platform in Latin America. We are developing the cryptocurrency ecosystem in the region and enabling financial inclusion. We believe crypto is the future of finance, and we’re committed to making it useful by providing equal access to safe and intuitive financial products.

We are here to make a lasting impact on our customer’s lives and we do so by embracing our core values:

• Be Human: we delight our customers through great products, deep care and true empathy. We are humble and we take pride in understanding the views of others to help us see the full picture.
• Drive Change: we're fearless pioneers committed to unlocking the crypto revolution for humanity. We move fast, take risks and work together to drive lasting impact.
• Choose Bold Honesty: we seek the truth, especially when it’s uncomfortable, in our teams, products and business reality because that will uncover where we need to focus.
• Be An Owner: our sense of urgency makes us have a bias towards action, where we prioritize exceptionally and are wise in allocating our time to ensure we always deliver