Senior Platform & Security Engineer

Taekus

Lead the infrastructure and security at Taekus, a fintech startup redefining premium financial services. Drive technical direction, CI/CD, and compliance in a high-autonomy role.

Posted 6/9/2026full-timeRemote • California, Illinois, New York, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $175,000 - $230,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDjangoDockerEC2KubernetesPostgresPythonRabbitMQRedisTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own and unify the platform and infrastructure that powers our core products and services.
Treat our engineers as your customers—build the tooling, paved roads, and self-service workflows that let them ship quickly and safely.
Own CI/CD and release automation, keeping the path to production fast, reliable, and observable.
Own feature-flag, configuration, and secrets infrastructure, along with the reliability of our background-job, caching, and queue systems (Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ).
Improve observability and operational health across services through structured logging, error monitoring, and APM, and share in the on-call rotation for platform and infrastructure services.
Own the platform's security guardrails—secrets management, IAM and access control, PCI/PII data handling, and vulnerability management.
Own and automate compliance and audit readiness (PCI-DSS, SOC 2, partner security reviews), coordinating external auditors and making the process repeatable.
Set technical direction for platform and security, driving toward infrastructure-as-code over time.

Requirements

What you’ll need

6+ years of professional engineering experience, with a strong platform, infrastructure, or backend focus.
Deep, hands-on AWS experience (EKS/Kubernetes, EC2, Lambda, RDS) in high-availability production environments.
Strong CI/CD and release-engineering background, with containerization using Docker and Kubernetes, and a track record of building tooling that improves developer experience (Terraform a plus).
Comfort working in a Python/Django codebase (Celery, Redis, PostgreSQL), able to read and contribute to platform code.
Experience with modern observability and monitoring tooling across logging, error tracking, and APM.
A security-minded engineer fluent in secrets management, IAM/access control, and dependency hygiene, ideally with hands-on PCI-DSS or SOC 2 experience.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary and stock option plan
Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
401(k) plan with 5% company match
Flexible vacation policy
Fully remote work environment

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Hard Skills & Tools

AWSEKSKubernetesEC2LambdaRDSCI/CDDockerTerraformPython

Soft Skills

customer focuscollaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationleadership