Cloud Platform Engineers

Role: Platform Engineer
Contract Type: Permanent
Reporting to: Platform Engineering Lead Salary: 90-120k CAD
Fiat Republic is a London-based remote-friendly fintech dedicated to bringing mainstream banking to the world of digital assets. Founded in 2021, the company has quickly established itself as a leading provider of banking and payment infrastructure for cryptocurrency companies.
Fiat Republic's mission is to bridge the gap between traditional finance and digital assets by providing cryptocurrency businesses with a single API to create bank accounts in multiple fiat currencies, access local bank payment rails, and manage FX and liquidity operations. We are a highly regulated business, with electronic money and money service business licenses in the UK, EU, US and Canada. We also have a strong focus on AML, regulatory compliance, and security, ensuring that our clients can operate their fiat flows sustainably, safely and securely.
We are headquartered in London, with a presence in the Netherlands, Poland, Turkey and Canada. Fiat Republic is backed by top-tier venture capital firms such as Speedinvest, Credo Ventures, Seedcamp, Fabric Ventures, Kraken Ventures, Arca, and Inovo Ventures. By providing crypto businesses with a simple and secure way to bank and process fiat payments, we are helping to drive the adoption of digital assets and making it easier for people to access the benefits of cryptocurrency.
We are also looking to expand our team and hire talented individuals who are passionate about banking, payments, cryptocurrency, and working in a fast-paced start-up environment.
Manage and optimize distributed systems and databases, including Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, and TimescaleDB, ensuring high availability, scalability, and optimal performance.
CI/CD Pipelines
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, ensuring automated code deployment, testing, and integration across development and production environments.
Monitoring & Logging
Set up and maintain monitoring and alerting systems using tools like Prometheus and Grafana to ensure the health, performance, and security of applications and infrastructure.
Work closely with development teams to streamline deployment processes and ensure efficient and reliable releases.
Provide assistance with IT-related issues for internal teams when necessary, focusing on onboarding and offboarding processes, managing user accounts and access via tools like JumpCloud, and administering corporate services such as Google Workspace, ensuring seamless operations and quick resolution of problems.
Ensure the infrastructure follows best practices for security, including access control, patching, and vulnerability scanning.

Minimum 3 years of experience as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), or similar role.
Solid understanding and experience with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code.
Strong experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, ideally using GitLab or similar tools.
Experience with managing and optimizing Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, and TimescaleDB.
Technical Skills
Monitoring & Logging: Distributed Systems & Databases: Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB
Internal IT Systems: Scripting languages: Bash, Python, or similar
Google Cloud Certified – Professional Cloud Architect).
Experience with infrastructure monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, etc.
Meaningful stock options in a rapidly growing company alongside a very competitive salary
Work in a truly multi-national team (offices in Toronto, London, Amsterdam and Krakow, with more coming soon).
Hybrid working conditions - minimum 1 day per week from the office where the role is based
Also the option to work from any of our other hubs for up to 6 weeks.
~ Fiat Republic is a firm believer in meritocracy and an equal opportunity employer committed to selecting, developing, and rewarding employees based solely on their qualifications, performance, and ability to do the job.