Platform Engineer (m/f/d)

At Ratepay, we are dedicated to revolutionizing the world of digital payments. Established in 2009, we have grown to become Europe's leading white-label Buy Now Pay Later payment provider, processing over 2.5 million transactions per month. Our diverse team of 200+ professionals collaborates to create customized, state-of-the-art payment solutions for major online retailers and marketplaces.  
 
Ratepay is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer with a strong background in cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices, including expertise in AWS, automation, and CI/CD pipelines. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining a scalable, secure, and high-performing platform that supports our software development teams in bringing services to production, optimizing system performance, ensuring compliance, and driving operational excellence through improved observability and incident management.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Operation of applications and infrastructure in the cloud with the usage of IaC tooling (Terraform and Terragrunt)
• Support software engineer teams in maintaining their cloud-native applications in our Cloud infrastructure 
• Managing various native services of our Cloud Provider (AWS)
• Scaling and optimizing the platform for performance
• Troubleshooting, diagnosing, and resolving issues
• Monitoring and analyzing platform performance
• Evaluating and integrating new technologies and tools to improve the platform
• Implementing security measures and ensuring compliance with standards
• Documenting platform architecture and processes

• Proven experience in engineering (6-7 years) 
• Cloud Infrastructure (AWS): Hands-on experience managing infrastructure in AWS, which is our primary platform for hosting and scaling services
• Terraform and Terragrunt: Proven ability to deploy and manage infrastructure using Terraform and Terragrunt, ensuring consistent and automated provisioning
• DevOps Tooling and Practices: Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC), configuration management, monitoring, and logging to support reliable software delivery and operations
• Networking: Solid understanding of networking principles to manage connectivity and communication between infrastructure components
• Version Control (Git): Experience using Git for source control and collaborative development
• OpsGenie: Familiarity with incident management workflows using OpsGenie to ensure timely alerting and response

 
Nice-to-have skills: 

• Programming and Scripting: Ability to write scripts or small tools to support automation and assist software engineers with troubleshooting
• Linux System Administration: Fundamentals of Linux system administration for troubleshooting and recovery
• Ansible: Familiarity with the tool for configuring and managing legacy systems
• Messaging Architecture and Systems: Understanding of systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Kinesis, which are central to service communication
• Virtualization and Containers: Knowledge of tools such as Docker, Podman, VMWare, or OpenStack to manage virtual environments and containers
• Jira and Confluence experience

We value our diversity and welcome everyone to our team. Regardless of ethnic and social background, religious beliefs, worldview, gender, sexual orientation, physical and mental limitations, age, marital status, educational background and nationality. With over 200 employees and 40 different nationalities, we take our values seriously. These include ownership, growth, integrity, collaboration, customer centricity and inclusion.