Founding Platform Engineer Stealth Fintech London Up to £200k + Equity
Posted 1 day 13 hours ago by Maze
Founding Platform Engineer Stealth Fintech London (Min. 4 days/week onsite in London) Up to £200k + Equity Hybrid London
Maze is partnering with a stealth-mode startup that's rebuilding core banking from the ground up. They're creating the world's first open-source, AI-native "Thin Ledger"-set to replace legacy infrastructure at Tier 1 banks.
We're looking for a Founding Platform Engineer to drive the infrastructure behind mission-critical systems: think active-active, five-nines uptime, and real-time observability at global scale.
What You'll Do:
- Own platform architecture for our next-gen ledger infrastructure
- Scale multi-region Kubernetes environments across cloud & on-prem
- Harden distributed systems (Kafka, Redis, CockroachDB) for global banking workloads
- Lead our AI-powered SRE approach: observability, remediation, and auto-response
- Enforce zero-trust, multi-tenant security and compliance (SOC2, ISO 27001)
- Define IaC foundations (Terraform, GitOps, Helm)
What We're Looking For:
- Expert with Kubernetes and Distributed Systems
- Experience building production infrastructure at scale (multi-region, high-availability)
- Extensive experience building both on-Prem & Cloud infrastructure at scale from scratch.
- Strong SRE mindset: SLOs, SLIs, incident response
- AI-curious or AI-native: excited to build agent-powered ops
- Passion for open-source, clean architecture
- Software Development experience (Bonus points for Go(Golang
- Bonus: background in financial systems, core banking, or regulated infra
Why join:
- Huge ownership: build core infra from scratch.
- Work with a high-caliber team, fast-paced and product-minded founders who have worked in some of the most recognised tech businesses in the world.
- Help define an open-source platform from day one.
- Clear path to tech unicorn status with fruitful equity included.
- Recently raised 8 figures in funding.
If your skillset matches, apply within.
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