About the Position

(Senior) Platform Engineer - Real-Time Infrastructure - Banking (m/f/x)

Full-time

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About the Company

Scalable Capital is a leading digital investment and banking platform with a full banking license, empowering people across Europe to shape their own finances. With over one million clients and €50 billion entrusted to the platform, Scalable Capital is on a mission to revolutionize financial services.

Founded in 2014, Scalable Capital employs over 700 people across Munich, Berlin, Vienna, Milan, and London. The company offers a range of services including Scalable Broker, Scalable Wealth, and the European Investor Exchange.

Visit our finance blog or check out our Social Media channels to learn more about our Expert Teams.

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Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Own infrastructure end to end across cloud and physical environments, including AWS, Linux hosts, networking, containers, and runtime operations
• Design and improve infrastructure for performance-sensitive services, supported by repeatable production-like benchmarks
• Design, operate, and troubleshoot critical network paths across VPCs, routing, security groups, load balancers, DNS, private connectivity, and service-to-service communication
• Build and improve infrastructure as code, host lifecycle management, and deployment workflows across development, staging, and production
• Improve reliability, failover, recovery, and operational safety across Linux-based runtimes, containers, serverless workloads, event-driven flows, and scheduled processing
• Harden platform capabilities around IAM, KMS, secrets, service connectivity, and secure operational access
• Raise the standard of observability through dashboards, alerting, tracing, health checks, readiness checks, and incident tooling
• Partner with software engineers on reusable infrastructure patterns, production readiness, CI/CD, and incident response

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Requirements

• A university degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a comparable practical background
• Experience with dedicated host strategies, low-latency networking, CPU pinning, host-level isolation techniques
• Strong experience owning production infrastructure for distributed or real-time systems
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, especially EC2, VPC networking, IAM, KMS, S3, SQS, SNS, and related operational tooling
• Strong hands-on networking experience, including routing, DNS, load balancers, network security, service connectivity, and debugging complex production traffic paths
• Strong experience with Terraform and infrastructure lifecycle management
• Deep knowledge of Linux systems, containers, runtime debugging, and host-level performance tuning
• Experience operating performance-sensitive workloads where predictability and tail-latency matter, not only average throughput
• Experience with infrastructure patterns for stateful services, active/standby failover, recovery, deployment safety, and controlled cutovers
• Strong analytical thinking, pragmatic decision-making, and clear communication across engineering and operational stakeholders

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Nice to Have

• Experience supporting Rust-based service environments
• Experience in regulated, security-sensitive, or high-reliability environments

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We Offer

• Be part of one of the fastest-growing and most visible Fintech startups in Europe
• Work with an international, diverse, inclusive, and ever-growing team
• Be productive with the latest hardware and tools
• Learn and grow by joining our in-house knowledge sharing or career development sessions and spending your individual Education Budget
• Learn and experience German culture first hand by joining our free German language classes
• International relocation support is provided if required
• Opportunity to work from abroad
• Benefit from an attractive compensation package and from the company pension scheme
• Monthly contribution of 50% for the ‘Deutschland Jobticket’
• Say goodbye to order commissions and say hello to your complimentary subscription of Scalable Capital's PRIME+ Broker
• Enjoy flexible and discounted sports activities with Urban Sports Club

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Job Location

• Munich, Germany
• Berlin, Germany
• Vienna, Austria
• Milan, Italy
• London, United Kingdom

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