Senior Platform & Security Engineer

Candidates must be able to travel to San Francisco, New York, Chicago, or Austin for an onsite interview. All required travel will be paid for by Taekus.

6+ years of professional engineering experience, with a strong platform, infrastructure, or backend focus.

Deep, hands-on AWS experience (EKS/Kubernetes, EC2, Lambda, RDS) in high-availability production environments.

Strong CI/CD and release-engineering background, with containerization using Docker and Kubernetes, and a track record of building tooling that improves developer experience (Terraform a plus).

Comfort working in a Python/Django codebase (Celery, Redis, PostgreSQL), able to read and contribute to platform code.

Experience with modern observability and monitoring tooling across logging, error tracking, and APM.

A security-minded engineer fluent in secrets management, IAM/access control, and dependency hygiene, ideally with hands-on PCI-DSS or SOC 2 experience.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

You want to establish and own a platform and security function from the ground up.

You'd rather automate security and compliance than grind through them by hand.

You enjoy contributing across the code base where needed.

You want to be in a scaling startup that is experiencing exponential growth.

You're excited by building foundational work and enjoy making an impact.

Traveling is in your DNA and you get to apply your passion into your work.

You thrive in growing high-caliber teams and want to influence both technical and strategic direction.

Taekus is a 6-year-old luxury financial services company that offers travel rewards credit cards, debit cards, and other banking services for the affluent market. We currently process $3B+ annually in transactions and operate as a highly profitable company. With a lean team of under 20 employees, we’re undergoing tremendous growth as we redefine the premium banking and rewards experience.