Staff Platform Engineer

Creditas

Staff Platform Engineer responsible for technological leadership and scalability of Creditas' platform. Focusing on cloud ecosystems, observability, and technical governance.

Posted 5/1/2026full-timeSão Paulo • 🇧🇷 BrazilLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudKubernetesTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the technological future of the platform, evaluating trade-offs between adopting new solutions and optimizing legacy systems to ensure scalability in multi-region environments.
Support the team in architectural decisions aligned with Creditas’ overarching engineering strategy, ensuring resilience and high-availability standards.
Define and maintain governance standards, ensuring created abstractions (such as the CDitas CLI) streamline the developer experience without generating technical debt.
Lead initiatives focused on reducing manual operations, increasing development velocity through automation and platform reliability.
Propose viable technical solution alternatives, ensuring decisions are made in a timely manner so the team’s progress is not blocked.
Engage with stakeholders to translate product challenges into platform solutions that reduce delivery time and operational cost (KTLO).
Identify and address technical gaps within the team, connecting delivery needs with the team’s skills development.
Coordinate joint efforts with other tribes when solutions exceed the Platform team’s scope, sharing technologies that can be reused.
Anticipate technical risks and dependencies during business discussions, influencing backlog refinement and prioritization of technical debt.
Lead technical rituals and mentoring to raise the bar of seniority, turning complex challenges into learning opportunities for Mid-level and Senior engineers.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong expertise in cloud ecosystems: deep experience with Kubernetes, service mesh, and infrastructure as code (Terraform/Crossplane) in highly complex scenarios.
Cloud-agnostic mindset: ability to design efficient solutions for different providers, with a focus on multi-region strategies and backup.
Observability culture: solid understanding of SLIs/SLOs and the use of telemetry (logs, metrics, and tracing) to guide architectural decisions.
Technical leadership background: prior experience leading cross-functional initiatives that impacted multiple teams or business units.
Maturity in trade-offs: ability to choose solutions that respect the team’s current constraints and business deadlines.
Maturity to give and receive direct technical feedback, resilience to handle production incidents, and a strong ability to influence without formal authority.
Availability for hybrid work: required to attend our Morumbi (São Paulo) office once a month for four consecutive days (Creditas in Person).

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health plan (Alice)
Dental plan (SulAmérica)
Wellz: 100% free therapy sessions
Wellhub: access to gyms and studios
Creditas Endurance: high-impact sports incentive program
Pharmacy partnership (Univers)
Life insurance (Porto Seguro)
Birthday day off
Extended parental leave: 6 months for birthing parents and 35 days for non-birthing parents
Family Care: support program for maternity and paternity
Childcare allowance
Allowance for dependents with disabilities (PWDs)
SESC: access to SESC facilities for you and your dependents
Meal allowance (VR): flexible benefits card (Creditas Card)
Payroll-deductible loans (Creditas Benefits)
Salary advance (Creditas Benefits)
Discounts on insurance (Minuto Seguros)
Access to exclusive financial education content in the Creditas app
PPR: profit-sharing program
Educational and development incentives
Flexible work model
Free bike parking at the office
Partnered/discounted parking at the office (subject to internal availability)

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Hard Skills & Tools

Kubernetesservice meshinfrastructure as codeTerraformCrossplaneSLIsSLOstelemetryautomationtechnical leadership

Soft Skills

technical feedbackresilienceinfluence without authoritystakeholder engagementmentoringproblem-solvingteam coordinationrisk anticipationcommunicationadaptability