Overview

Platform Engineer II role at Checkout.com

We’re Checkout.com – a fintech company powering online checkout experiences for brands worldwide. Our platform supports billions of transactions across multiple AWS regions with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with technologists across disciplines to evolve the platform, improving security, resiliency and scalability.
• Create and distribute best practices for future-proof service development to the team.
• Continuously evaluate the team’s workflow and contribute to its improvement and automation.
• Join an on-call rotation shared between team members.

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS and its services
• Experience running and managing Kubernetes
• Experience with service mesh, preferably Istio and Envoy
• Proficient in a programming language (Go)
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and related best practices
• Ability to write clean, modular, and tested infrastructure as code (Terraform)

Bonus points

• Knowledge of cloud network infrastructure design and troubleshooting
• Instrumentation experience with Datadog
• Load and chaos testing
• Security-focused mindset with experience in reviewing and improving security practices

About Checkout.com

Checkout.com is a payments platform used by leading brands. We operate globally with offices across six continents, supporting a culture of fast delivery and continuous improvement. The role is part of a self-sufficient, agile team that builds and evolves our payment orchestration platform known as ProcessOut, which Checkout.com acquired in March 2020.

Life at Checkout.com

We offer a hybrid working model with three days per week in the office to support collaboration and connection. We value ownership, reduce blockers, and provide opportunities for growth and impact from day one. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds and provide supports to ensure an accessible and comfortable experience during the application process.