Senior Platform Engineer

Summary

Join RecargaPay and make a difference in the lives of millions of Brazilians! As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will build and maintain our platforms, focusing on security and compliance. You will lead security initiatives, identify improvement opportunities, and ensure the adoption of best practices. This role requires strong experience in cloud computing security (AWS), Kubernetes, and IaC. You will collaborate with engineering teams and mentor less experienced members. RecargaPay offers a competitive salary, remote work options, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• Commitment to cloud (AWS) security and involved services, ensuring compliance and continuous risk mitigation
• Ability to continuously assess infrastructure security posture, anticipate vulnerabilities, and implement effective solutions
• Experience in implementing security as code (IaC), ensuring automated policies and controls to prevent insecure configurations
• Close collaboration with engineering teams to integrate security into CI/CD pipelines and development processes without compromising agility
• Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs to strengthen security without impacting platform scalability and resilience
• Expertise in managing and strengthening layers such as WAF, CDN, Security Groups, VPCs, encryption, and authentication/authorization processes
• Continuous monitoring of trends, threats, and new security practices to ensure platform evolution
• Experience with tools such as AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, CloudTrail, and others for monitoring, anomaly detection, and rapid incident response
• Promoting a security culture by developing training, documentation, and best practices across the organization
• Strong experience in Cloud Computing security (AWS) and its respective services, including threat modeling and pentesting
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Service Mesh, Terraform, API Gateway, encryption, and pipelines
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and building security guardrails and policies as code
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work in dynamic environments
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
• Proven experience in technical leadership and mentoring less experienced team members
• Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced environment, quickly learn and master various technologies
• Bachelor's or postgraduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Responsibilities

• Lead security initiatives
• Identify improvement opportunities
• Ensure compliance
• Promote the adoption of best practices from solution design to deployment
• Strengthen the security posture of cloud services and other platforms
• Play a key role in automation and empowering teams to adopt security autonomously
• Ensure that security is seamlessly and efficiently integrated into workflows

Preferred Qualifications

English or Spanish

Benefits

• Competitive and market-aligned salary
• Remote work — wherever you are, you’re part of the team!
• Home office allowance through a monthly deposit in the RecargaPay app
• Health and dental plans with no co-pay
• Life insurance
• Flexible meal allowance (via Flash)
• TotalPass membership to take care of your health
• Spanish or Portuguese classes