Senior Platform Engineer

Alkami

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$145,000–$165,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
82 days ago
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This role pays less than 62% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$201,600 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $155k versus about $176k for comparable roles.

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About Alkami

Alkami Technology is a cloud-based digital banking solutions provider offering retail and business banking platforms to credit unions and banks to help them compete with larger financial institutions. Industry: Financial Technology & Digital Banking

Alkami currently has 56 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $130,000–$164,000 across 25 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Platform Engineer

The Sr. Platform Engineer joins the team to locate, make visible, and remediate sources of unreliability within the MANTL platform. This role focuses on identifying correctness problems under failure conditions and resolving issues that span the boundaries between cloud infrastructure and product application engineering. Day-to-day responsibilities include investigating microservice communication failures, designing monitoring dashboards, implementing distributed tracing, and hardening components through fault-injection and resilience testing. The engineer will maintain CI/CD pipelines and manage container-native workloads. Required technical skills include proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js, experience with Kubernetes, and knowledge of GitHub Actions. Candidates should also possess experience with Datadog, relational databases, and defensive design patterns like circuit breakers. This role addresses reliability concerns within a digital sales and service platform for banking institutions.

What does a Platform Engineer earn?

Median $156250 from 30 postings across 22 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve reliability issues within the MANTL platform application code.
  • Identify and address failure modes across internal and third-party system integrations using resilience strategies.
  • Design and maintain monitoring, dashboards, and alerting systems to increase platform health visibility.
  • Implement and extend distributed tracing across microservices to accelerate root-cause identification.
  • Diagnose and remediate application performance issues including caching, code paths, and query performance.
  • Harden platform components through fault-injection, resilience testing, and defensive design patterns.
  • Build, maintain, and troubleshoot CI/CD build pipelines using GitHub Actions.
  • Deploy and troubleshoot container-native Kubernetes workloads to resolve platform reliability issues.

What we're looking for

  • 4 to 7 years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or a hybrid development/reliability engineering role.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
  • Strong proficiency in TypeScript with production experience in a Node.js/TypeScript service environment.
  • Hands-on experience deploying and troubleshooting containerized workloads in Kubernetes.
  • Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions preferred.
  • Experience configuring monitoring, dashboards, and alerting in an APM/observability tool, Datadog preferred.
  • Experience troubleshooting distributed system and microservice communication failures across various integration points and protocols.
  • Experience designing for and testing failure modes using fault injection and implementing defensive patterns like idempotency and circuit breakers.

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