Saga
Senior Platform Engineer
Remote Platform Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJul 2, 2026
Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
USA
Role overview
Senior Platform Engineer
Requirements and responsibilities
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The Work
- Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs that power core product features (transactions, wallet management, DeFi integrations, user accounts)
- Own and evolve the infrastructure layer — CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, deployment automation, and infrastructure-as-code
- Build and operate scalable, reliable systems on cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar)
- Develop high-quality, performant, modern, clean and readable code within tight deadlines
- Develop internal tooling and platform primitives that accelerate the product engineering team
- Implement observability, monitoring, and alerting to ensure high availability and fast incident response
- Collaborate closely with product, design, and frontend engineers to deliver end-to-end features
- Contribute to architecture decisions, technical documentation, and engineering standards as the team grows
- Own the development and maintenance of the project from ideation to deployment
Must haves
- 7+ years of experience in backend engineering, with meaningful exposure to infrastructure, platform, or DevOps/SRE work
- Strong proficiency in Golang (5+ years)
- Experience designing and building production APIs and microservices at scale
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar)
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, or equivalent)
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for multi-service deployments
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, databases, and systems-level debugging
- Exceptional problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills
Nice to haves
- Experience with blockchain systems or integrating blockchain-based backends into consumer-facing products
- Understanding of cryptographic primitives (public/private keys, hash functions, Merkle trees)
- Experience with the Cosmos SDK / CometBFT technology stack
- Background in fintech, payments, or wallet infrastructure
- Experience with performance optimization, load testing, and capacity planning
- Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar)
- Contributions to open-source projects
Benefits
- Work remotely from anywhere in the world
- Work on exciting things at the intersection of fintech and crypto
- Flexible working hours
- Flexible vacation policy
- Competitive salary
- Stock options
- Full benefits*
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