Trustly
Payments
SeniorPlatformEngineer
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“Senior Platform Engineer at Trustly. Skills: Platform Engineering, CI/CD, Distributed Systems, Observability, Developer Experience. Architect the Paved Road. Own and evolve the product deployment chain utilized by our development teams, including CI/CD pipelines and underlying delivery infrastructure”
Industry & Context.
define problems when they are unclear; navigating difficult technical trade-offs
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
significant senior-level experience (typically 7+ years) building, scaling, and operating developer platforms, CI/CD toolchains, and high-availability distributed systems in production, view internal tooling from a customer perspective, focus on developer outcomes and reducing cognitive load, veteran instinct for spotting systemic failure modes and identifying operational risks long before they impact availability, deeply understand SLOs, error budgets, and how to balance reliability with feature velocity, make timely decisions, define problems when they are unclear, and do not let uncertainty become paralysis, proactively cross team boundaries to solve problems, build alignment between product developers, security experts, and infrastructure engineers, navigating difficult technical trade-offs with empathy and direct communication
What You'll Do.
Architect the Paved Road
Own and evolve the product deployment chain utilized by our development teams
including CI/CD pipelines and underlying delivery infrastructure
design these systems for scale
aiming for appropriate complexity
Drive Ways of Working
Act as a cultural and technical driver for modern engineering practices
champion and implement SLO frameworks
promote trunk-based development
and build the tooling required for product teams to significantly increase their service availability
Champion Observability
and tracing are built in from the start
never as afterthoughts
provide the observability primitives that allow product teams to truly understand and trust their systems in production
Boundaries & Elevate Standards
Work closely with Infrastructure
and Product teams to ensure a consistently high standard
embed 'security and compliance by design' into the daily workflows of the entire engineering org without sacrificing velocity
Lift the skills of those around you by developing teammates
mentoring colleagues through detailed feedback
and evangelising platform capabilities across the broader engineering organization
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
collaborators; Work closely with Infrastructure, Security, and Product teams; proactively cross team boundaries to solve problems; build alignment between product developers, security experts, and infrastructure engineers; collaborating across different areas of the organisation
Communication Scope
direct communication
Full Job Description
## Description WHO WE ARE At Trustly, we're building a smarter, faster, and more secure financial future by revolutionizing the world of payments. As a global leader in Open Banking Payments, we are establishing Pay by Bank as the new standard at checkout, providing unparalleled freedom, speed, and ease to millions of consumers and merchants worldwide. Our Ambition: To build the world’s most disruptive payment network and redefine what the payment experience should feel like. Trustly is a global team of innovators, collaborators, and doers. If you are driven by a strong sense of purpose and thrive in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, and high-growth environment, join us and be part of a team that’s transforming the way the world pays. ## WHAT YOU'LL DO Architect the Paved Road: Own and evolve the product deployment chain utilized by our development teams, including CI/CD pipelines and underlying delivery infrastructure. You will design these systems for scale, aiming for appropriate complexity ("as simple as possible, but no simpler"). Drive Ways of Working: Act as a cultural and technical driver for modern engineering practices. You will champion and implement SLO frameworks, promote trunk-based development, and build the tooling required for product teams to significantly increase their service availability. Champion Observability: Ensure monitoring, logging, and tracing are built in from the start, never as afterthoughts. You will provide the observability primitives that allow product teams to truly understand and trust their systems in production. Span Boundaries & Elevate Standards: Work closely with Infrastructure, Security, and Product teams to ensure a consistently high standard. You will embed "security and compliance by design" into the daily workflows of the entire engineering org without sacrificing velocity. Multiply your impact: Lift the skills of those around you by developing teammates, mentoring colleagues through detailed feedback, and evangelising pla
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