Ebury is a leading global fintech company that empowers businesses to trade and grow internationally. It offers a comprehensive suite of products, including international payments and collections, FX risk management, trade finance, and API integrations. Founded in 2009 by Juan Lobato and Salvador García, Ebury is one of the fastest-growing global fintechs, with over 1,700 employees and 38 offices in more than 25 countries.
Platform Engineer
Ebury Madrid Office - Hybrid: 4 days in the office, 1 day working from home
We are looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be working within one of our platform engineering teams to ensure that our platform meets the needs of our customers and business objectives.
What we offer:
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- You’ll have continuous professional growth thanks to our career progression framework with regular reviews
- Discretionary bonus based on performance
- Continued personal development through training and certification
- We are Open Source friendly, following Open Source principles in our internal projects and encouraging contributions to external projects
Responsibilities:
- Work within a team of SREs to ensure high availability and reliability of our systems.
- Develop and maintain monitoring, incident management, and troubleshooting of infrastructure and applications.
- Utilize observability tools to gain insights into system performance and health, and make decisions for improvements.
- Design and implement automation tools and processes to improve efficiency and reduce downtime.
- Perform on-call on a rotating basis to address high-severity incidents and ensure system availability.
- Work closely with development teams to ensure that their applications are designed for scalability and reliability.
- Participate in the design and implementation of new systems and services to ensure they meet our reliability and scalability requirements.
- Keep up-to-date with emerging technologies, tools, and practices related to SRE and infrastructure.
About You:
- Several years of relevant industry experience building large scale distributed systems.
- Solid understanding of cloud architecture and application deployment patterns on GCP or AWS.
- Experience operating web-scale deployments of containerised systems on Kubernetes and Amazon Container Services.
- A deep understanding of programming languages and the systems you've worked on.
- A passion for architecting large systems with elegant interfaces that can scale easily
- A hunger for tracking down root causes, no matter where it takes you and fixing them in systematic ways. Working with code owners to prevent repeats.
- A love for writing code - we primarily use Python; you don’t need to be an expert, but experience is a plus and we will expect you to learn on the job.
- Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills and willingness to uphold Ebury’s values.
- Our operating language is English but a knowledge of Spanish or Portuguese is a bonus.
- Experience with security and compliance requirements (e.g., HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPR, DORA) is a plus.
If you’re excited about this job opportunity but your background doesn’t match exactly the requirements in the job description, we strongly encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other positions we have.
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About Us
Ebury is a FinTech success story, positioned among the fastest-growing international companies in its sector.
Founded in 2009, we are headquartered in London and have more than 1700 staff with a presence in more than 25 countries worldwide. Cultural diversity is part of what makes Ebury a special place to be. From Sao Paulo to Dubai, Bucharest to Toronto, we enjoy sharing team experiences and celebrating success across the Ebury family.
Hard work pays off: in 2019, Ebury received a £350 million investment from Banco Santander and has won internationally recognised awards including Financial Times: 1000 Europe's Fastest-Growing Companies.
None of this would have been possible without our proudest achievement: our great people. Enthusiastic, innovative and collaborative teams, always ready to disrupt and revolutionise the fast-paced FinTech sector.
We believe in inclusion. We stand against discrimination in all forms and have no tolerance for the intolerance of differences that makes us a modern and successful organisation. At Ebury, you can be whoever you want to be and still feel a sense of belonging no matter your story because we want you and your uniqueness to help write our future.
Please submit your application on the careers website directly, uploading your CV / resume in English.
