Lead Platform Engineer
Wyden helps banks and institutions trade digital assets by providing end-to-end trading technology and infrastructure.
Funding history
Investors
About Wyden
Wyden helps financial institutions build digital asset businesses through integrated trading technology covering the full trade lifecycle. With it, banks can offer retail and institutional crypto services, brokers can access liquidity venues, and funds can automate trading operations. Wyden bridges traditional finance with digital assets while maintaining regulatory compliance and institutional-grade security standards. The company was founded as AlgoTrader in 2014 and rebranded to Wyden in 2022.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will serve as the senior technical authority for production cloud infrastructure. You will design and govern AWS architecture, build reusable infrastructure automation and deployment pipelines, and establish observability, release, and operational standards. You will lead customer platform migrations, maintain compliance-ready documentation, and recruit and technically guide an SRE.
Requirements
- Production-depth AWS expertise including EKS, Aurora/RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, Route 53, VPN, PrivateLink, and Transit Gateway
- Senior-level production experience with Terraform and Terragrunt
- Experience designing and owning CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, or equivalent
- Deep Kubernetes and EKS operations experience in production multi-tenant environments
- Strong Python, Bash, or equivalent scripting and automation skills
- Experience designing and owning a monitoring and observability stack using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent
- Excellent written and spoken English
Responsibilities
- Own AWS architecture for customer environments, ensuring scalability, security, cost efficiency, and maintainability
- Design and govern VPC, EKS, Aurora/RDS, IAM, and AWS networking patterns
- Lead infrastructure architecture reviews and proactively address infrastructure risks
- Manage AWS costs through rightsizing, reserved-instance strategy, and architecture optimization
- Design, build, test, and maintain reusable Terraform and Terragrunt modules
- Build and own CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployment
- Automate deployment, validation, rollback, and manual operational processes
- Define and enforce DevOps standards for branching, pipelines, deployment gates, and releases
- Design and own the observability stack, monitoring templates, alerting, dashboards, and reporting
- Define SLOs and SLAs and make breaches actionable in real time
- Own application release deployments, infrastructure upgrades, and configuration changes
- Build standardized, reversible deployment runbooks and validation gates
- Lead technical execution of customer migrations to the current platform
- Design migration infrastructure, data-migration tooling, validation frameworks, and cutover runbooks
- Recruit, onboard, and technically lead an SRE
- Set engineering standards, conduct code reviews, and build operational independence across the team
- Maintain architecture diagrams, runbooks, deployment guides, and operational documentation
- Contribute infrastructure evidence and records for ISO 27001 and SOC 2 compliance
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package
- Flexible and remote working policies