Platform Engineer

About us

Established in 2013, Xapo has pioneered Crypto Banking and earned a reputation as the Fort Knox of Crypto. 

We believe that Bitcoin will do for money what the internet did for information. Our goal is to provide a bridge between digital assets and traditional financial services.

To make it safe and easy for you to save in Dollars or Bitcoins, with immediate access to funds via Card, Crypto and Bank payment rails. To help you participate in both traditional and crypto markets, enabling you to grow your wealth and build your financial future. 

Xapo Bank is the first product of its kind: a platform that bridges the gap between crypto and traditional banking services. Headquartered in Gibraltar, we are regulated and authorised as a credit institution to provide fiat-related services, and in addition, Xapo VASP is regulated and authorised as a Distributed Ledger Technology Provider to offer crypto services. 

Position overview

A cloud-native application platform automates infrastructure and service provisioning and configuration, dynamically allocating and reallocating resources at deployment time based on the application’s needs. Building on a cloud-native runtime optimises application life-cycle management, including scaling to meet demand, resource utilisation, orchestration across available resources, and recovery from failures with minimum downtime.You will be at the driving seat of the developer experience platform team, by creating a self-serve, seamless and secure journey for Engineering and enabling them to achieve shorter Speed to Market.

This approach reduces cognitive load on teams (they have less to think about) and it creates a standard way of building software. This brings additional benefits with onboarding new developers or adding additional development teams. The platform team also has a role to play in developer mentoring and support, helping development teams understand how well cloud-native software operates. 

In successful software organisations, development teams can consume core services from a central platform team in a self-service manner. 

Examples of such services include:

• Infrastructure provisioning (Compute, Network, Storage)

• CI/CD pipelines and underlying tooling

• Standardised mechanisms to log, monitor and troubleshoot their services in all environments

• Codified templates to create new services in line with agreed architectural patterns

We rely on the following tools and technologies. 

• Terraform

• AWS (ECS, RDS, SQS, VPC, KMS)

• GCP (Cloud run, Cloud functions, Datastream, BigQuery)

• Docker

• GitHub and GitHub Actions

• Coralogix/PagerDuty

Responsibilities

The development community are your core customers. The driving principles that underpin this function are:

• A focus on the ongoing sustainable maintenance and operability of our developer platform. 

• Adopting cloud native principles and a focus on relentless automation and testing of change.

• We will only operate what we absolutely must, favour buy over build and SaaS over on-prem.

• Providing high-quality, fast feedback to development teams by having business incremental deliverables.

• Building a developer journey that is architected to scale and handle change, be that new services, new customers, new regulations, new tooling or a change in demand.

You will:

• Proactively work with stakeholders like the Engineering Team, Product and Security teams, to maintain, identify and build a robust, self-serve and scalable framework of automated actions

• Be part of a technical decision group, as your inputs will influence the Platform landscape and roadmap.

• Deliver self-serve capabilities to our developers that allow them to provision, manage and operate their own infrastructure and services deployment.

• Build high-quality code into everything we do by following industry best practices and understanding what Xapo needs, making decisions accordingly.

• Provide coaching and mentoring to colleagues on building sustainable services and automated pipelines.

• Keep security and compliance at the forefront of all you do.

Skills needed

• Strong problem-solving skills and a growth mindset, the ability to learn and use the best-in-class technology and tools to address our requirements.

• A good technical knowledge of software and systems – able to dive into details with engineers and speak in plain language with stakeholders.

• Stays abreast of current technology developments and has demonstrated the ability to retain a competitive advantage by implementing relevant technologies in software products.

• Experience building and shaping developer’s environment as code and using pipelines, solid expertise in GitHub and GitHub is mandatory.

• Ideally is comfortable in a variety of scripting and coding languages.

• Strong knowledge and experience in designing, deploying, and administering complex Amazon AWS cloud environments. Preferably AWS certified and has a good understanding of the Amazon Well Architected Framework.

• Strong understanding of Docker and best practices. 

Other requirements

• A dedicated workspace.

• A reliable internet connection with the fastest speed possible in your area.

• Devices and other essential equipment that meet minimal technical specifications.

• Alignment with Our Values and the Xapo Values-Driven Leadership principles.