Staff Platform Engineer
Alkami
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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.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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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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.
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Median $156250 from 30 postings across 22 companies.
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