Platform Engineer III
Prove
About Prove
As the world moves to a mobile-first economy, businesses need to modernize how they acquire, engage with and enable consumers. Prove’s phone-centric identity tokenization and passive cryptographic authentication solutions reduce friction, enhance security and privacy across all digital channels, and accelerate revenues while reducing operating expenses and fraud losses. Over 1,000 enterprise customers use Prove’s platform to process 20 billion customer requests annually across industries, including banking, lending, healthcare, gaming, crypto, e-commerce, marketplaces, and payments. For the latest updates from Prove, follow us on LinkedIn.
Prove is driving the future of digital identity. We are looking for Provers who know how to make an impact. We’re talking self-starting professionals who thrive in a fast-paced environment, process information quickly, and make intelligent decisions. The work is challenging and requires not only smart but natural curiosity and tenacity. Teamwork is also important to us – we work together and play together.
Prove has big plans, and we’re excited about the future. If this sounds like the place for you – come join our team!
About Us
As the world moves to a mobile-first economy, businesses need to modernize how they acquire, engage with and enable consumers. Prove’s phone-centric identity tokenization and passive cryptographic authentication solutions reduce friction, enhance security and privacy across all digital channels, and accelerate revenues while reducing operating expenses and fraud losses. Over 1,000 enterprise customers use Prove’s platform to process 20 billion customer requests annually across industries, including banking, lending, healthcare, gaming, crypto, e-commerce, marketplaces, and payments. For the latest updates from Prove, follow us on LinkedIn.
Prove is driving the future of digital identity. We are looking for Provers who know how to make an impact. We’re talking self-starting professionals who thrive in a fast-paced environment, process information quickly, and make intelligent decisions. The work is challenging and requires not only smart but natural curiosity and tenacity. Teamwork is also important to us – we work together and play together.
Prove has big plans, and we’re excited about the future. If this sounds like the place for you – come join our team!
Title: Platform Engineer III
Department: Internal Operations
Reports To: Senior Manager, Site Reliability
Location: Ireland
Job Summary
We are seeking a talented and experienced Platform Engineer III to join our growing team. You will be responsible for building, maintaining, and scaling our internal platforms powering our applications and services. This role requires a strong understanding of infrastructure technologies and a passion for creating reliable and efficient systems. Additionally, you will be part of an on-call rotation, responsible for responding to and resolving critical platform incidents outside of regular business hours.
Platform Engineers will work directly with Product Engineering, leveraging cloud environments to create optimal solutions. Platform Engineering not only guides developers but will also directly implement changes within core code bases to utilize new features of the platform.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and implement platform solutions using technologies such as cloud platforms (AWS), containerization (Kubernetes), GitOps CD, CI pipelines, and infrastructure automation tools (Terraform)
- Build and maintain robust monitoring systems to proactively identify and troubleshoot platform and application issues
- Instrument applications with OpenTelemetry distributed traces
- Ensure platform security and compliance with industry standards
- Have a product oriented approach to Platform Engineering by collaborating with development teams to understand their needs and design platform features that meet their requirements.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployments
- Participate in code reviews and knowledge sharing sessions
- Respond to production incidents during your designated on-call rotation, diagnose issues, and implement solutions to restore service
- Document platform architecture, processes, and procedures
- Continuously learn about new technologies and trends in the platform engineering space
Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- 4+ years of experience as a Platform Engineer or similar role
- 4+ years of experience with a general purpose programming language (Golang, Java, Python etc.) building applications and tools
- Experience with application debugging, performance optimization, code instrumentation and profiling
- Proficiency in Kubernetes and experience deploying and maintaining production applications in Kubernetes clusters. Solid understanding of K8s concepts, resource types, tooling, ingress controllers, autoscalers, etc
- Proven experience with cloud platforms, containerization technologies, GitOps tools like ArgoCD, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation tools like Terraform
- Experience with modern observability tools, especially Open Telemetry distributed traces
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- On-call experience a plus
- Promote, maintain and enhance our cultural values of humility, passion, inclusion, and leadership.
- Strong passion for learning about our products and markets through in-house and external training.
- Experience in high-growth /pre-IPO Technology companies
This position description should not be considered the final description of the position. The position description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the positions. It should be assumed that we would, to some extent, structure responsibilities in accordance with the successful candidate’s capabilities and changing business conditions. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor.
Benefits & Perks for FTE Provers:
- Competitive salaries & Bonus Plan (for eligible roles) and Equity Plan
- Modern Health for financial, mental, and physical wellness
- 401(k) Retirement Plan & Match (US Offices) and Local Country Pension (International Offices)
- Unlimited Vacation and Flexible hours
- Comprehensive medical benefits for you and your family ❤️
- Emotional & Physical Wellness – Access to wellness services (EAP & Prove Well-Being Reimbursement)
- Bottomless snacks & beverages for certain office locations
- Daily GrubHub stipend for lunch if coming into the office (US Offices)
- A great place to work and connect with other talented Provers like yourself!
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Prove we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Equal Opportunity Employment:
Prove is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people regardless of race, color, religion, gender or sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, veteran status or other personal characteristics
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