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This role pays less than
82%
of similar roles. Most pay
$169,550–$233,050
— the blue band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$158k
versus about
$201k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
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.
The Staff Platform Engineer leads the effort to identify, visualize, and remediate sources of unreliability within the MANTL platform. Working directly in the application codebase and container-native deployment environment, this role focuses on resolving complex microservice communication failures and correctness issues surfacing under failure conditions. Key responsibilities include owning the reliability roadmap, designing monitoring and alerting strategies, and establishing standards for distributed tracing and fault-injection testing. The successful candidate will utilize TypeScript, Node.js, Kubernetes, and GitHub Actions to harden platform resilience. They must possess deep experience with distributed systems, relational databases, and observability tools like Datadog. This role solves critical reliability problems for a unified digital banking platform, ensuring high availability and performance across integrated third-party and internal system components for financial institutions.
What does a Platform Engineer earn?
Median $156250 from 30 postings across 22 companies.
Python
Go
Kubernetes
Terraform
AWS
Azure
Google Cloud Platform
infrastructure-as-code
Distributed Systems
CDN
TCP/IP
DNS
TLS
HTTP/S
Load Balancing
Linux
Unix
WAF