Platform Engineer

Full Time

• Prague

Our Platform Engineering team is looking for a versatile, full-stack engineer to help us build, scale, and manage the infrastructure that powers our critical applications.

This isn't a conventional infrastructure role. We are seeking a hybrid talent who is equally skilled in developing in Python, troubleshooting modern frontends and building resilient AWS infrastructure. You are a true polyglot, comfortable working across the entire stack. You will be a key player in bridging the gap between platform stability and application performance, ensuring our entire technology ecosystem is resilient, automated, and efficient.

Full-Stack Development & Support (50%)

• Full-Stack Troubleshooting: Support, debug, and enhance the entire application stack, from our frontend to our Python backend services (Flask, Litestar, Celery) running on AWS ECS.
• Backend Service Support: Provide operational support for backend services and Kafka producers/consumers written in Python.
• Maintain Core Utilities: Take responsibility for our centralized management utility and our master API service, ensuring both the frontend and backend components are stable and performant.
• Collaborate on Solutions: Work closely with other engineers to diagnose issues and deliver solutions that span across infrastructure, backend, and frontend codebases.

Platform & Infrastructure Engineering (50%)

• Design and Automate Infrastructure: Build, manage, and scale our AWS environment using Terraform, ensuring our infrastructure is repeatable, secure, and documented.
• Manage Kafka Ecosystem: Take ownership of our AWS MSK (Kafka) clusters. This includes provisioning, configuring topics and ACLs, managing cross-region replication with MSK Replicator, and ensuring high availability.
• Build CI/CD Pipelines: Develop and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, testing, and deployment of both infrastructure and applications.
• Design and implement secure VPC architectures, network segmentation, and service-to-service communication patterns.
• Implement Observability: Integrate and manage monitoring and alerting solutions using tools like CloudWatch, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry.

• Proven Experience: You have a solid background as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or a full-stack Software Engineer with a deep passion for infrastructure.
• Strong Python Development: You are highly proficient in Python for backend development. You are comfortable reading, debugging, and contributing to services built with frameworks like Flask or Litestar.
• Proficiency: You have hands-on professional experience building and/or supporting applications with You can effectively troubleshoot issues between the frontend UI and backend APIs.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Expert: Strong, hands-on experience with Terraform is essential and terraform wrappers such as teragram and terramate
• AWS Expertise: You have deep knowledge of core AWS services, especially ECS, MSK, RDS, DynamoDB, and IAM.
• CI/CD Champion: You have proven experience building and managing automated deployment pipelines (e.g., using Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Containerization Knowledge: You are skilled with containers and have experience deploying containerized applications on an orchestrator like ECS.

Bonus Points if You Have Experience With:

• Deep knowledge of Apache Kafka, particularly its administration, security, and replication on AWS MSK.
• Configuration management tools like Chef or Ansible.
• Implementing modern observability stacks with Prometheus or OpenTelemetry.

OUR TECH STACK

• CLOUD: AWS (ECS, MSK, RDS, DYNAMODB, IAM, CLOUDWATCH)
• IAC & CONFIG MANAGEMENT: TERRAFORM, CHEF
• BACKEND: PYTHON (FLASK, LITESTAR, CELERY)
• FRONTEND: REACT.JS
• DATA & STREAMING: APACHE KAFKA, POSTGRESQL (RDS), DYNAMODB, ZOOKEEPER
• CI/CD: [E.G., JENKINS, GITLAB CI, GITHUB ACTIONS]

OBSERVABILITY: PROMETHEUS, OPENTELEMETRY, GRAFANA

Compensation:

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being, growth, and work-life balance.

• Health & Financial Security:
• Pension contributions
• Time Off & Flexibility:
• Enjoy the best of both worlds: the energy and collaboration of in-person work, combined with the convenience and focus of remote days. This is a hybrid position requiring three days of in-office collaboration per week, with the flexibility to work remotely for the remaining two days. Our hybrid model is designed to balance individual flexibility with the benefits of in-person collaboration, enhanced team cohesion, spontaneous innovation, hands-on mentorship opportunities and strengthens our company culture.
• 25 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year, with the option to roll over unused days.
• One dedicated day per year for volunteering.
• Two professional development days per year to allow uninterrupted professional development.
• An additional PTO day added during milestone anniversary years.
• Generous parental leave for all parents (including adoptive parents).
• Work-Life Support & Resources:
• Budget for tech accessories, including monitors, headphones, keyboards, and other office equipment.
• Milestone anniversary bonuses.
• Wellness & Lifestyle Perks:
• Subsidy contributions toward gym memberships and health/wellness initiatives (including discounted healthcare premiums, healthy meal delivery programs, or smoking cessation support).
• Our Culture:
• Forward-thinking, culture-based organization with collaborative teams that promote diversity and inclusion.

Trading Technologies ) is a global capital markets platform services company providing market-leading technology for the end-to-end trading operations of Tier 1 banks, brokerages, money managers, hedge funds, proprietary traders, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), commercial hedgers, and risk managers. With its roots in listed derivatives, the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company delivers "multi-X" solutions, with "X" representing asset classes, functions, workflows, and geographies. This multi-X approach features trade execution services across futures and options, fixed income, foreign exchange (FX), and cryptocurrencies, augmented by solutions for data and analytics, including transaction cost analysis (TCA); quantitative trading; compliance and trade surveillance; clearing and post-trade allocation; and infrastructure services. The award-winning TT platform ecosystem also helps exchanges deliver innovative solutions to their market participants and technology companies to distribute their complementary offerings to Trading Technologies' clients.

Trading Technologies (TT) is an equal-opportunity employer. Equal employment has been, and continues to be, a required practice at the Company. Trading Technologies' practice of equal employment opportunity is to recruit, hire, train, promote, and base all employment decisions on ability rather than race, color, religion, national origin, sex/gender orientation, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other protected status. Additionally, TT participates in the E-Verify Program for US offices.