RecargaPay

Senior Platform Engineer

RecargaPay

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Brazil

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDynamoDBFluxGrafanaJavaKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesNode.jsPrometheusPythonSpringSpring BootSpringBootTerraformTypeScript

About the role

  • As a Senior Platform Engineer, manage our platforms to improve business continuity, best practices and contribute to the developer experience end-to-end.
  • Drive modernization and platform initiatives and steward high-leverage practices (Engineering, DevEx, SRE, DevSecOps, and AI-assisted engineering).
  • Translate day-to-day developer needs into Golden Paths, opinionated tooling, and policy-backed workflows.
  • Define and steer medium and long-term architectural strategies for the platform, ensuring efficiency, scalability, and reliability across all AWS environments.
  • Codify architecture into practice by delivering reference implementations and Golden Path templates for high-performance builds and standardized scaffolding.
  • Engineer safe delivery and reusable GitHub Actions.
  • Manage and optimize Kubernetes operations using Karpenter for intelligent node provisioning.
  • Make observability the default through OpenTelemetry and New Relic.
  • Raise cloud and service security, operate and propose improvements related to OAuth2/JWT and secrets lifecycle management.
  • Design and operate event topologies covering Kafka partitioning, compaction, retention policies, and schema evolution.
  • Promote the adoption of AI-assisted practices to enhance code quality, automated refactoring, automated operations, and technical documentation.
  • Drive cost-aware architecture through cloud computing best practices, scalability, and platform/service efficiency.
  • Implement governance and controls that ensure the correct management of services, security, and compliance of our platforms and technologies.

Requirements

  • Academic Foundation: Background in Computer Science, Engineering, or related disciplines.
  • Expert Development: Extensive hands-on experience in software engineering, with solid proficiency in Java (Spring Boot) and TypeScript/Python.
  • Distributed Systems: Mastery of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and microservices architecture, designing for high performance and high availability.
  • Build: Deep knowledge of Bazel build systems.
  • Expert-Level AWS: Deep, practical experience with core services: EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, IAM, Networking, and Security.
  • Infrastructure as Code: Advanced experience with Terraform (modules/policy enforcement) and Pulumi (multi-language stacks).
  • Kubernetes Internals: Deep knowledge of EKS, including Karpenter for scaling, Istio for service mesh, and Argo/Flux for GitOps.
  • SRE & Resilience: Mastery of reliability patterns (circuit breakers, retries, back-pressure, stress tests, application architecture) and SLO-driven operations.
  • Security Hardening: Expert knowledge of AWS security controls, OPA/Rego policy design for admission controllers, and container security (image signing, ECR scanning).
  • Full-Stack Observability: Proficiency in OpenTelemetry design and integration with New Relic, Grafana, and Prometheus.
  • Self-Service Platforms: Proven experience building Internal Developer Portals and ephemeral environments.
  • Delivery Automation: Expertise in GitHub Actions, Flagger for progressive delivery, and feature-flag governance.
  • Strategic Mindset: Ability to translate complex business goals into long-term technical direction.
  • Influential Leadership: Excellent communication skills to influence stakeholders and mentor technical leaders.
  • Autonomy & Accountability: High degree of ownership with a bias for action in fast-paced, large-scale environments.
  • Constructive Culture: Active contributor to feedback loops, ADR/RFC hygiene, and continuous learning.
  • Real-world experience in critical workloads and regulated environments (ideally Fintech).
  • Ability to translate compliance controls (PCI-DSS, LGPD) into automated technical patterns.
Benefits
  • Remote work — wherever you are, you’re part of the team!
  • Home office allowance through a monthly deposit in the RecargaPay app.
  • Health and dental plans with no co-pay.
  • Life insurance.
  • Flexible meal allowance (via Flash).
  • TotalPass membership to take care of your health.
  • Spanish or Portuguese classes.
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Hard Skills & Tools
JavaSpring BootTypeScriptPythonDomain-Driven Designmicroservices architectureBazelAWSTerraformKubernetes
Soft Skills
communicationinfluential leadershipstrategic mindsetautonomyaccountabilityconstructive culture